JonathanTurley

JANUARY 5, 2021

This was a settlement discussion over election challenges with a variety of lawyers present, not some backroom at the Bada Bing club. The Georgia lawyers on the call did a good job in rebutting Trump’s theories and showing that there are not hundreds of thousands of uncounted or miscounted ballots. Chris Christie.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

The three cited statutes do not require classified status for a crime but two deal with the unlawful possession or handling of defense or sensitive information.) The filings do not indicate that the government has evidence of knowing concealment by Trump, but it cited various representations made by lawyers on his behalf.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 21, 2024

Even more notably, he admitted to the larceny on the stand — after the statute of limitations had passed. You have a disbarred lawyer not only casually discussing lies and uncharged crimes, but prosecutors who proceeded to get him to remind the jury that he is not facing any further criminal charges.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 22, 2023

He answered “no” and the deal quickly fell apart, with Hunter Biden’s lawyer finally saying exasperatedly, “ Just rip it up.” New emails reveal that Hunter Biden’s lawyers told the prosecutors that, if there were serious charges, it would be President Biden in the spotlight. The language was anything but routine.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Last month Washington was rocked by the indictment of Michael Sussman, former counsel for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee, for his alleged role in spreading a false Russia conspiracy theory. Joffe , who was the chief cybersecurity officer at Washington tech contractor Neustar Inc.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In her mocking, combative testimony February 15, Willis lashed out against the media, the lawyers and many in the public for questioning her ethics in hiring her former lover as lead prosecutor. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University and a practicing criminal defense attorney.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 24, 2024

After being disbarred and convicted as a serial perjurer, Cohen waited for the statute of limitations to run on larceny to admit that he stole as much as $50,000 by pocketing money intended for a contractor. Keep in mind that Trump’s lawyer Todd Blanche asked Cohen point blank: “So you stole from the Trump organization, right?”

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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. One can debate whether Trump may have committed this misdemeanor.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The question is whether Durham really wants to indict just the figurative tail if he can get the whole dog — a question that now may weigh heavily on a number of Washington figures, just as it did following Durham’s indictment in September of Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann. 1001) as a handy alternative.

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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. However, the justices left open the prospect that Trump’s trial in Washington, D.C.,

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 26, 2022

During law school, Kruger spent one summer as an intern for the U.S. After graduating from Yale in 2001, she spent a year working as an associate at Jenner & Block in Washington, D.C., Kruger returned to Washington in 2007 to take a job as an assistant to the U.S. before going to clerk for Judge David Tatel of the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 22, 2023

They also would have to deal with a charge brought seven years after the alleged offense, despite a two-year statute of limitations for the underlying misdemeanors (or a five-year period for a felony). ” After he was arrested and Trump refused to pardon him , Cohen proved that when you scratch a lawyer, you can find a foe.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 15, 2023

Classified documents have been discovered in Biden’s possession at several locations, hundreds of miles apart, ranging from a prior office in Washington, D.C., Given a suspect who is offering an implausible explanation for potentially criminal conduct, most prosecutors would want to secure a statement on the record.

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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.” This week, New York judges and lawyers appear eager to prove that the same is true for cases against Donald Trump. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Throughout his career, the disbarred lawyer has found powerful clients who valued his reputation for supporting any side that offered the biggest payback. Now he is accused of yet another lie under oath and the question is whether his current benefactors will again protect him from a criminal charge. He is a Fox News contributor.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

That would keep anyone up at night, but there may be one other insomniac this week: Hunter Biden’s lawyer Abbe Lowell. There is of course a major difference between the Biden and Menendez cases: Menendez and his wife are being criminally charged for their alleged influence peddling.

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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 21, 2020

We have been discussing the campaign of The Lincoln Project and others to harass and abuse lawyers who represent the Trump campaign or other parties bringing election challenges. ” It is same weaponization of the criminal code for political purposes that we have seen in the last four years against Trump. Chris Christie.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 6, 2022

Below is my column in The Hill on the subpoena war raging in Washington as the Jan. The Navarro case is just one skirmish in a subpoena war engulfing Washington. These subpoena fights seem to be unfolding with little consideration given to the potential costs, either for Washington institutions or the individuals involved.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

His lawyer, Abbe Lowell, previously said Hunter would testify only when “the time is right” and is now saying that Hunter would testify in public, not the scheduled private session. If he is found to have lied, he can be charged with a criminal felony. The threat of prosecution is real.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 21, 2023

Bragg is attempting something that many lawyers think is as improbable as the reanimation of the dead. 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. This is a patently political prosecution.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Some of us expressed doubts over those reports since Durham asked for this investigation to be upgraded to a criminal matter , secured the criminal plea of former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith , and asked recently for over a thousand pages of classified intelligence material. Mueller, III.”

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