JonathanTurley

MARCH 20, 2023

I have been critical of the indictment, which is reportedly based on a highly dubious use of a New York misdemeanor charge to revise a long dormant federal election law charge. Yet, there was no hue and cry for this type of prosecution in Washington or New York. A Section 175 charge would normally be a misdemeanor.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2023

It reportedly includes claims of felony and misdemeanor charges of unlawful restraint, but didn’t name individual suspects. Jonathan Turley, an attorney, constitutional law scholar and legal analyst, is the Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law at The George Washington University Law School.

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APRIL 7, 2023

For many weeks, experts on both the left and the right expressed doubts that Bragg could charge Trump with falsifying business records, a misdemeanor with a now-expired two-year statute of limitation. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at The George Washington University.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 6, 2021

In some cities, like San Francisco, police largely stopped responding to shoplifting calls after state law was changed to make the theft of merchandise worth $950 or less just a misdemeanor. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

faces a misdemeanor simple assault charge for allegedly intentionally blowing on people. With the Trump impeachment unfolding in Washington, we will awaited similar reports of Thanksgiving dinner conversations that go terribly wrong–after their argument led to patio furniture being flung at each other. __.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 26, 2023

Influence peddling may be lawful, but it is also corrupt. Indeed, it is the favorite form of corruption in Washington and a virtual family legacy of the Bidens. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law for George Washington University.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

As previously discussed , the government has routinely elected not to prosecute high-ranking officials for improperly removing classified material or has sought mere misdemeanor charges in the most egregious cases. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 23, 2023

What is particularly chilling is that the establishment in Washington is not even trying to rebut the widespread view of a two-tiered system of justice. That’s right, Hunter is actually commendable for, after over five years, pleading to two misdemeanors with no likely jail time. She is not a true Biden.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 13, 2024

In a case based on a dead misdemeanor and a rapidly falling heart rate on the manufactured felony, one can understand the appeal of witnesses who can speak for the dead. He has already allowed every effort to bring this dead misdemeanor back to life. Jonathan Turley is the J.B. and Maurice C.

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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. They largely ignore that the misdemeanor is expired. Bragg caved.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 8, 2022

The same concerns were raised this week after Washington Gov. Jay Inslee called for the criminalization of “lies” about election results. Such a law would threaten political speech and create a chilling effect for those who want to raise such concerns in contested elections. What does that even mean?

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 22, 2023

He actually was planning to let Hunter walk without even a misdemeanor charge despite massive unpaid taxes, gun violations, and work as an unregistered foreign agent, among other alleged crimes. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 4, 2024

Now, the Biden administration has arrested Baker on four misdemeanor charges linked to his entry into the Capitol on that day. former Washington Post executive editor, and Andrew Heyward, former CBS News president, reaffirmed this shift. Before Baker’s arrest, Washington media was already facing criticisms over double standards.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 25, 2023

He will plead guilty to two minor misdemeanor tax counts and a phantom felony count that will go away in time. He will declare himself guilty so the media and the political establishment can declare the scandal to be a closed matter: Nothing more to see here, other than a plea to a couple misdemeanors.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 6, 2023

Warning: it has no legally nutritional content… Here is the column: “We cannot and will not normalize serious criminal conduct,” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said of his indictment of former president Donald Trump. At some point, Bragg will have to state the actual criminal basis for these 34 counts.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 12, 2023

2 of the discovery as it was closing out a Washington office, the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, that Biden used as part of his relationship with the University of Pennsylvania after he left the vice presidency in 2017. The White House Counsel’s Office notified the National Archives on Nov.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 31, 2023

The only crime that has been discussed in this case is an unprecedented attempt to revive a misdemeanor for falsifying business documents that expired years ago. He cannot be the defender of the rule of law if he is using the legal process for political purposes. He is a Fox News contributor.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Powell pleaded to misdemeanors for a deal that avoids jail time and preserves her ability to resume the practice of law. Powell’s statement will also present challenges to Special Counsel Jack Smith who has a parallel case in Washington, D.C.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 13, 2023

Yet many in the Democratic Party and the media have insisted on criminal charges in the Mar-a-Lago case , including barring Trump from office for even a misdemeanor conviction on unlawful possession. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 14, 2023

Berger, who stuffed classified documents in his clothes to remove them from a secure facility, was allowed to plead to a misdemeanor , received two years’ probation and was given only a three-year suspension – not a permanent revocation – of his security clearance. Follow him on Twitter @JonathanTurley

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 11, 2023

” Washington is in full spin control with pundits who previously said that even a misdemeanor conviction of Trump should bar him from ever running again for federal office. ” Biden seem to struggle to find words to express his revulsion : “How that could possibly happen, how one anyone could be that irresponsible.

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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). Department of Justice. Follow him on Twitter @JonathanTurley

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 15, 2024

I have long been critical of the case as a clear example of the weaponization of the criminal justice system. No one seriously believes that Alvin Bragg would have spent this time and money to prosecute what is ordinarily a state misdemeanor if the defendant was anyone other than Trump. However, two prosecutors, Carey R.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 8, 2024

You have a case based on two dead misdemeanors shocked back into life by a still mysterious theory of an undefined crime. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School. In comparison, Daniels may be the only authentic part of the entire case in New York v.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 24, 2023

First, it expired as a chargeable misdemeanor after two years — and that was roughly five years ago. Second, it was a mere misdemeanor that could be brushed off by Trump even if they succeeded. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and a professor at George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 7, 2020

I maintained that perjury is a “high crime and misdemeanor” regardless of its subject. Conversely, I testified in the Trump impeachment that the issue was far more difficult because of the absence of such a clear criminal act as perjury. Tribe notes: “It doesn’t say ‘except the criminal laws.’

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 23, 2023

Yet enough similarities exist that Justice could weigh charges in both cases, even if only misdemeanors. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. Moreover, the Biden allegations are serious in their own way. You can find his updates online @JonathanTurley.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 1, 2023

After years of delaying disclosures and admissions, Hunter could now be pushing to cap off the criminal side of the scandal before more information is released in Arkansas and Washington. For the White House, even a criminal plea is preferred if they can avoid one particular claim — and they may be succeeding.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

The Democratic nominee was exposed recently by the Washington Post in streaming sex acts on a site called Chaturbate for money. Indeed, the site shows a long-standing anomaly in our criminal law. It would be illegal for Gibson to offer sex for money on the street under our prostitution laws.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 11, 2022

6 riot or an outgrowth of an ongoing grand jury investigation in Washington that could involve charges of seditious conspiracy, obstruction of official proceedings or other serious counts. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. Follow him on Twitter @JonathanTurley.

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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

MARCH 21, 2023

He is reportedly going to convert a misdemeanor for falsifying financial records into a prosecution of a federal crime. The limit is two years for a misdemeanor and, even if he can convert this into a felony, it is not clear if he can meet the longer five-year limitation. Bragg is combining parts from both state and federal codes.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 18, 2023

As first reported by the Washington Examiner, Swalwell used his official position to reserve the space for the press conference and lent his assistance to Hunter in refusing to appear before the House committees investigating his father, President Biden. Where Bowman’s offense was treated as a misdemeanor, Hunter’s offense is a felony.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

That point was reached this season when Pederson decided not to tie the game against Washington in the third quarter with a field goal and instead put Nate Sudfeld in the game over Jalen Hurts. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University and a member of USA TODAY’s Board of Contributors.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

All of the three main players — Trump, Attorney General Merrick Garland, and Special Counsel Jack Smith — will face immediate challenges in the legal arms race unfolding in Washington. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 17, 2021

As I said in both the Clinton and Trump impeachment hearings, the House is under a duty to impeach if it believes that a president has committed a high crime and misdemeanor. He would then be more popular than ever with many citizens eager to defy the Washington establishment. There is another path.

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