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The Closing: Trump’s Final Argument Must Be Clarity to Chaos in Merchan’s Courtroom

JonathanTurley

Trump’s lawyers are defending a former president who is charged under a state misdemeanor which died years ago under the statute of limitations. Three-legged Stool A classic closing pitch by lawyers is to use a physical object like a three-legged stool. If any leg is missing, the stool collapses.

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Trump’s Midas Touch: Legal Experts Line Up To Declare The Georgia Call As The Latest Crime By Trump

JonathanTurley

Law has become a recreation and legal analysts have become part of the legal entertainment. This was a settlement discussion over election challenges with a variety of lawyers present, not some backroom at the Bada Bing club. The fraud statutes, we held in McNally, were “limited in scope to the protection of property rights.”

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Australia High Court Delivers Major Blow to Free Speech In Defamation Ruling

JonathanTurley

The statute defines “information content provider” as “any person or entity that is responsible, in whole or in part, for the creation or development of information provided through the Internet or any other interactive computer service.” Dirty World Entertainment. For Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. 47 U.S.C. § Craigslist, Inc. ,

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