JonathanTurley

AUGUST 16, 2021

Those “others” could include a virtual who’s who of Washington politics, and even if they are not indicted, Durham could implicate some of the most powerful figures in politics in his final report, expected in the coming months. For many individuals, the statute of limitations may have passed on any alleged crimes.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 18, 2024

The question before the justices is whether Trump can be tried on criminal charges that he conspired to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The court’s answer will determine not only whether Trump’s trial in Washington, D.C., The laws under which Trump has been charged are intended to cover everyone, Smith writes.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Cohen – who first met the Lovings when he was just 29 – filed a lawsuit on their behalf, challenging the Virginia law and similar state statutes as violating the 14th Amendment. Virginia , the court did find the statute unconstitutional. He and his co-counsel, Philip Hirschkop, took the case to the Supreme Court. 29, 1941 – Nov.

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JANUARY 12, 2022

Oklahoma that Congress had not clearly disestablished a Creek Nation reservation covering much of eastern Oklahoma, and thus the area remained Native American territory for the purposes of a federal criminal law, eliminating the state’s ability to prosecute crimes there. Haaland , 21-378 , and Brackeen v. Haaland , 21-380.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

The litigation over last year’s lettuce recall has only just started due to the statute of limitations. 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 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.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 20, 2023

Yet, there was no hue and cry for this type of prosecution in Washington or New York. The linkage to a federal offense is critical for another reason: Bragg’s office ran out of time to prosecute this as a misdemeanor years ago; the statute of limitations is two years. A Section 175 charge would normally be a misdemeanor.

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JonathanTurley

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. After all, when Bragg ran for office, he was no more specific; he merely promised to bag Trump on some criminal charge.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 15, 2022

Nevertheless, then-FBI Director James Comey declared that “although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case.”. The Justice Department explained in an Aug. 16, 2016, letter to Sen.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 13, 2024

Both cases are classic examples of influence peddling, which has long been a cottage industry in Washington, D.C. Menendez is a pariah in Washington and Hunter is the president’s son. 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

MARCH 18, 2024

In New York, the legislature changed the statute of limitations to allow Trump to be sued while New York Attorney General Letitia James effectively ran on a pledge of selectively prosecuting him. Shapiro professor of Public Interest Law at the George Washington University Law School. Jonathan Turley is the J.B.

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JANUARY 5, 2021

As a criminal defense attorney, I would view a case built on that line as not just challengeable but laughable. Even if the prosecutors could find a basis for establishing intent, they would still be pushing fraud statutes beyond an intelligible limits without more direct evidence of intent. who refused to endorse then-Gov.

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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.) Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. Follow him on Twitter @JonathanTurley.

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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. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School. There will be no dead felony zapped back into life against Cohen, as it was for Trump. In fact, it was hard not to stare.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 13, 2023

It is also the same Weiss who reportedly allowed the statute of limitations to run out on Hunter’s major tax offenses, even though he had the option to extend it. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University.

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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

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. He is a Fox News contributor.

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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

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

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

During the recent Trump appeal in Washington, there was also a claim that Special Counsel Jack Smith’s work was unconstitutional, though the challenge was based on the absence of an authorizing statute. attorney for Delaware. Indeed, it could be the start of a Biden MAGA movement. He is a Fox News contributor.

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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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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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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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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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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

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. were confirmed by those U.S. Attorneys — E.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 15, 2024

Indeed, in Washington, it was an open joke when Hunter was put on the Amtrak board and later made its vice chair. It appears that nothing is quite so funny as open nepotism in Washington. He was one of Washington’s noble class, a scion of a political dynasty. After all, as his father once said , “no one f**ks with a Biden.”

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 31, 2023

If reports are accurate, he may attempt to “bootstrap” the misdemeanor into a felony (and longer statute of limitations) by alleging an effort to evade federal election charges. Moreover, Bragg could face the same statute of limitation concerns on some of the issues previously investigated by the Justice Department.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 14, 2023

A speedy trial under the Sixth Amendment − and a federal statute − would set the case for trial within 70 days. However, criminal defendants routinely waive the right to a speedy trial because it does not allow them to fully prepare for trial. That would put the trial before the end of August. Follow him on Twitter @JonathanTurley

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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 2, 2022

The Washington Post was quick to breathlessly declare that the time had finally come. Given the Posts long record of running professed slam dunk criminal charges against Trump that amounted to nothing, that is hardly a surprise. Judge Carter notes that Eastman still believes that the statute is unconstitutional as written.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Moreover, they testified that the statute of limitations on the most serious charges related to these foreign payments were knowingly allowed to expire by the Justice Department, even though it would have been possible to extend the statute of limitations. First, there are the tax violations.

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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

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

DECEMBER 7, 2020

From bribery statutes to constitutional provisions, legal experts routinely and unfailingly conclude that Trump or his family can be prosecuted or impeached for an endless array of misdeeds. Tribe insists the clarity and coherence comes in a later provision referring to how a president “shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed.”

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

There is a five-year statute of limitations on lying to Congress. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University and a practicing criminal defense attorney. This would seem an embarrassingly easy case for a prosecutor. He is a Fox News contributor.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

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. Jonathan Turley, a member of USA TODAY’s Board of Contributors, is the Shapiro professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University.

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