SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 23, 2023

But even if the definition is unclear, the 5th Circuit concluded, it should be read to exclude bump stocks under the rule of lenity – a doctrine instructing courts to construe ambiguous criminal laws (Section 922(o)(1) carries a prison term of up to 10 years) in the manner most favorable to defendants. In both United States v.

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MARCH 10, 2022

District of Columbia v. In order to negate immunity protections, it must be shown that Detective Tucker not only violated the First Amendment in this case but that “the unlawfulness of their conduct was clearly established at the time.” Wesby, 138 S. 577, 589 (2018). ” Ashcroft v. al-Kidd, 563 U.S. 731, 741 (2011).

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 16, 2024

District Judge Carl J. Nichols of the District of Columbia dismissed the 1512(c)2 charges. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit erred in construing 18 U.S.C. Joseph Fischer was charged with various offenses, but U.S. ” The Court will now consider the question of whether the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

But even if the definition were not clear, the 5th Circuit continued, bump stocks should be excluded from the definition of “machinegun” under the rule of lenity, a doctrine that instructs courts to apply ambiguous criminal laws in the way that is most favorable to defendants. The 6th Circuit ruled that the regulation is ambiguous.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 7, 2024

Now, Judge Walton has been criticized by the United States Court of Appeals for a District of Columbia for a surveillance order of the computer of a January 6th defendant. ” The issue of these public statements by Trump is currently pending before both state and federal courts, including proceedings in the District of Columbia.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 18, 2024

Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to rule on Trump’s appeal. To the contrary, a bedrock principle of our constitutional order is that no person is above the law — including the President.” The laws under which Trump has been charged are intended to cover everyone, Smith writes.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to rule on Trump’s appeal. Indeed, Smith suggested, a president’s “alleged criminal scheme to overturn an election and thwart the peaceful transfer of power to his successor should be the last place to recognize a novel form of absolute immunity from federal criminal law.”

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Before becoming clerk of the Supreme Court, Stevas was the clerk of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals and worked as an assistant U.S. He also taught criminal law and trial practice at the George Washington University School of Law. Stevas’ obituary described the two men as friends and neighbors.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The matter is now before both the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and the Supreme Court. Now, however, Judge Chutkan has been forced to stay the case indefinitely pending the appeal of the presidential immunity claim made by Trump.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

District Judge Carl Nichols dismissed the obstruction charge against Joseph Fischer, reasoning that the law, which was enacted in the wake of the Enron collapse, was only intended to apply to evidence tampering that obstructs an official proceeding. The justices will hear arguments on April 22 in City of Grants Pass v.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 19, 2022

After the riot, District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine announced that he was considering arresting Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Nevertheless, Tribe promised more if needed: “There are other crimes that have been proven. Those are plenty to start with.”. Rudy Giuliani and U.S. Mo Brooks and charging them with incitement.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JUNE 3, 2022

Sentencing Commission, Jackson is intimately familiar with the inner workings of the criminal justice system. District Court for the District of Columbia. Justice Sonia Sotomayor is the only other current justice with experience as a judge in the trial or district courts.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 3, 2021

Below is my column in the Hill on the District of Columbia not only admitting that it used tear gas on June 1 last year near Lafayette Park, but also defending the use as entirely appropriate to enforce the curfew order of Mayor Muriel Bowser.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Prosecutions for violation of the provisions of this subsection shall be on information filed in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia by the Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia. (a-1) Even without addressing any attempt to cause fear or panic, here is the most obvious crime: § 22–1319.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

But even if the definition were not clear, the 5th Circuit continued, bump stocks should be excluded from the definition of “machinegun” under the rule of lenity, a doctrine that instructs courts to apply ambiguous criminal laws in the way that is most favorable to defendants. In a different challenge, the U.S.

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JURIST

MARCH 9, 2023

The US Senate Wednesday blocked a Washington DC criminal law reform bill. A joint resolution to disapprove of the bill passed the Senate in a vote of 81-14, with 33 Democrats and Senator Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) joining all Senate Republicans.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 30, 2023

Trump potentially faces four major prosecutions in the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia and New York before the 2024 election. District Judge Tanya Chutkan has already indicated that the court will not treat Trump differently because he is running for office. In Washington, U.S.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 19, 2021

Moreover, they would fail under a lower standard of proof than the “beyond a reasonable doubt” standard in criminal law. Such a result would eviscerate the claim that Trump was guilty of criminal incitement in his speech. He should be criminally indicted for inciting insurrection against our democracy.”

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

A group of linguistics scholars describe developments in the field of corpus linguistics, which did not exist when District of Columbia v. A group of criminal law scholars provide background on the use of self-defense in the criminal legal system. Textualism And Originalism. Heller and McDonald v. Self-Defense.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 25, 2024

During more than two-and-a-half hours of oral argument, some of the court’s conservative justices expressed concern about the prospect that, if former presidents do not have immunity, federal criminal laws could be used to target political opponents. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld that ruling.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 17, 2022

After the riot, District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine announced that he was considering arresting Trump, Donald Trump Jr., There are other crimes that have been proven. Those are plenty to start with.”. It is a curious thing that these crimes “have been proven” but Trump has not been charged with them.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Bolstering such claims, District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine said he was investigating Trump for a possible incitement charge. What’s strange is that there’s no word of an interview, let alone a charge, on a purportedly clear crime committed more than a month ago.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 26, 2022

Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 2002 to 2003. The other cases Kruger argued touched on a wide range of issues, from the Sixth Amendment’s confrontation clause and right to counsel to federal “career criminal” laws and federal benefits laws. Kruger went from the D.C.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 25, 2022

” Notably, in those tweets, McQuade emphasized a charge under “DC law, manslaughter” which can then be charged under the federal Assimilative Crimes Act. Again, the use of such a law would fail for the reasons above. The Criminal Jury Instructions for the District of Columbia, No.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 24, 2022

To bring a charge over such a challenge could criminalize future challenges when one party claims that the other lacked a good-faith basis. After the riot, there were widespread calls for criminal charges over insurrection or incitement. Seditious conspiracy. Rudy Giuliani and U.S. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) for incitement.

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JURIST

MARCH 7, 2023

Washington DC Council Chairman Phil Mendelson Monday sent a letter to Vice President Kamala Harris–in her capacity as president of the US Senate–stating that he is withdrawing a bill that would change DC’s criminal laws. Mendelson discussed the letter during a press conference Monday.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Such proclamations do better with MSNBC than the DDC (United States District Court for the District of Columbia). The public statements of Trump alone would not make for a credible case for criminal incitement under the controlling case law.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 15, 2022

The question is whether there is new evidence of criminal acts. After the riot, District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine announced that he was considering arresting Trump, Donald Trump Jr., That evidence amplifies the view that there was not a basis for these allegations. Rudy Giuliani and U.S.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 24, 2023

Even more disturbing is the allegation that Delaware US Attorney David Weiss sought to bring charges against the 53-year-old in both the District of Columbia and Southern California last year and was denied both times. Wolf allegedly said that they could never get approval for the search despite the sufficiency of the evidence.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 7, 2022

This was a protest fueled by reckless rhetoric that was allowed to become a full riot by a shocking lack of security preparations by the Capitol police and the District of Columbia. It is simply not an insurrection.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 21, 2022

Attorney General Merrick Garland clearly is looking for evidence of criminal conduct and could seek an indictment. If based on the committee’s evidence, however, it is a criminal case that would be ripe for reversal even if a conviction could be secured from a favorable District of Columbia jury.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 20, 2022

Sussmann’s trial for allegedly lying to the FBI is being heard in the same District of Columbia federal courthouse where former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn and others faced the very same charge brought by another special counsel. The cases, however, could not be more different.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 31, 2021

I have repeatedly asked in columns why, if incitement was so clear and public, there has yet to be a criminal charge brought against Trump. 6 riot that he was investigating Trump for a possible incitement charge.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 12, 2021

District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine has declared that he is considering arresting President Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Rudy Giuliani and U.S. Mo Brooks with inciting the violent invasion of the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 20, 2023

Trump lost the 2020 presidential vote in the District of Columbia, receiving a mere 5.4% That means finding a Trump supporter in the district’s jury pool is only slightly more likely than finding a snow leopard. Smith would want to go to Washington in this instance. of the vote.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 4, 2022

Ted Cruz of Texas, who overlapped at Harvard Law School with Jackson, characterizing her as “charming” and “talented” and noting that he had “always liked her personally.” Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. But they assailed what Sen. Bush nominated her for the U.S. Brown was eventually confirmed to the D.C.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser reportedly limited a Guard presence before the protests to help with traffic and crowd control. National Guard troops were offered to the Capitol days beforehand but declined. We also have contradictions on the record.

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