SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2020

All left an imprint on the court or the law. In December 1958, a Black law student attending Howard University tried to order a cheeseburger at a restaurant in a Virginia bus terminal. Virginia , holding that federal law barred racial segregation in interstate public transportation. Some worked behind the scenes. 17, 1934 – Oct.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2023

Newsom cited the kidnapping statute but apparently failed to read it or the underlying cases. While there is a fair debate over the policy of relocation by states like Texas and Florida, the effort to use the criminal process as part of that political debate is … well, pathetic. First, let’s look at the law.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 18, 2024

However, the recent decision of Special Counsel Robert Hur not to bring criminal charges against President Joe Biden has undermined even that case. Hur described four decades of Biden serially violating laws governing classified documents. Shapiro professor of Public Interest Law at the George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 2, 2023

While the actual charges will not be disclosed until the release of the indictment, the underlying theory discussed for months is an effort to revive a dead misdemeanor offense of falsifying business records — years after the statute of limitations expired. Nobody is above the law, but nobody is below its protections … including Donald Trump.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 22, 2023

Yet the Justice Department reportedly allowed the statute of limitations to run on major crimes, including the tax offenses related to the suspicious payments to Hunter Biden from Ukraine and other countries. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 17, 2022

In past columns, we have discussed how Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe seems intent upon running through the entire criminal code in declaring clear evidence of every federal crime by former President Donald Trump and/or his family. You don’t have to go to law school to know that there’s something seriously criminal about that.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 26, 2022

After Harvard, Kruger went to Yale Law School, where she was the editor in chief of the Yale Law Journal – the first Black woman to hold that job. During law school, Kruger spent one summer as an intern for the U.S. as “only jealousy.”. A stint in the Obama administration, including arguments at the Supreme Court.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 9, 2023

That’s because the long “investigation” into Hunter inexplicably allowed the statute of limitations to expire on the most controversial payments starting around 2014 from Ukraine gas company Burisma. There is still no explanation why special counsel David Weiss would allow the statute of limitations to run out.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Indeed, after years of denial, some Democratic members and the journalists are now admitting that Hunter Biden clearly broke the law. The Weiss investigation, however, languished for years even as some of us were pointing out that the statute of limitations was about to pass on felonies. That allowed Weiss to delay any appearance.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 15, 2024

For decades, Hunter has conveyed an attitude that laws do not apply to him or to other Biden family members. When years of news reports forced the Justice Department to investigate some of these crimes, the Justice Department sat on the case until the most serious tax violations from 2014 to 2015 expired under the statute of limitations.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 2, 2022

I also supported Vice President Pence’s interpretation of federal law and disagreed with Eastman’s interpretation. Judge Carter notes that Eastman still believes that the statute is unconstitutional as written. Judge Carter notes that Eastman still believes that the statute is unconstitutional as written.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

While the Justice Department allowed the statutes of limitations to run on various felonies, Hunter would be faced with a new set of charges with years for criminal charges to be brought by prosecutors. That may now change. If Hunter lies to congressional investigators, he can be charged with a federal crime. That will now change.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 15, 2023

Given a suspect who is offering an implausible explanation for potentially criminal conduct, most prosecutors would want to secure a statement on the record. Lying to investigators is itself a federal crime — removing any questions over statutes of limitation.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 15, 2024

Here is the column: The famous Roman philosopher and orator Marcus Tullius Cicero once said, “The more laws, the less justice.” That is all over a crime from before the 2016 election that is a misdemeanor under state law that had already expired under the statute of limitations. However, two prosecutors, Carey R.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 24, 2023

Prosecutors then created a Rube Goldberg approach and suggested that the misdemeanor was committed to conceal a federal election law violation — a crime that the Justice Department declined to charge. The bootstrapping of a federal crime under this statute appears unprecedented and likely unsustainable.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

If he is found to have lied, he can be charged with a criminal felony. Hunter has benefited from the Justice Department limiting its investigation and inexplicably allowing the statute of limitations to run on key charges. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 21, 2023

The Justice Department itself declined this prosecution and both the former chair of the Federal Election Commission and various election law experts have thrown shade on the theory. There are serious challenges to this prosecution, including an argument that time has expired under the statute of limitations.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 12, 2023

He declared “we have one set of laws in this country and they apply to everyone.” There are a variety of challenges expected from the Trump team, including arguing that the government misused the civil statute of the Presidential Records Act to launch a criminal prosecution. Smith’s case could end with a stroke of a pen.

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