JonathanTurley

JUNE 23, 2023

The effort to “resolve Hunter” has been a concerted effort by the political and legal establishment. 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. For a Biden, that apparently is the very profile of courage.

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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. He insisted that Trump could not be allowed to use “fictitious legal services” for political purposes.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 13, 2024

With a dubious legal theory, the testimony has only magnified the criticism of the prosecution as parading sensational rather than material evidence before the jury and the public. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is losing even CNN hosts and legal analysts. The cross examination was devastating. Jonathan Turley is the J.B.

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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.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 22, 2023

Even CNN legal analysts are now calling the handling of the investigation at the Justice Department an “ unholy mess.” 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.

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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. J-schools” now encourage students to leave “neutrality behind” and push “solidarity [as] ‘a commitment to social justice that translates into action.’” She was acquitted. That is not the case for Baker.

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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

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. Jamie Raskin (D-Md).

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 13, 2023

While Attorney General Merrick Garland has again refused to appoint a special counsel, any acknowledgment of Biden’s knowledge or interaction with the documents could have serious legal ramifications. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 15, 2024

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. Here is the column: The famous Roman philosopher and orator Marcus Tullius Cicero once said, “The more laws, the less justice.” Nevertheless, it worked.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 8, 2024

Bragg has refused to clearly define the crime that Trump was seeking to conceal when payments for a non-disclosure agreement were listed as a legal expense. Bragg then indicted Trump without clearly defining any crime — a debate that continues among legal experts after two weeks of testimony. But I know it when I see it.”

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 24, 2023

Donald Trump remains Bragg’s political manifest destiny even if there is no legal landfall in sight. Here is the column: It appears that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg will go another week in the legal effort to locate the nation of Kailasa on a map. So Bragg continues to stare at the map to find his Kailasa.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 26, 2023

The debacle in the Hunter Biden investigation has left most objective legal analysts in disbelief, with one CNN analyst calling it an “ unholy mess.” Weiss cut a deal with Hunter’s legal team that was widely derided. For House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), What followed has bordered on the burlesque.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 16, 2022

This weekend, I was unable to attend our law school graduation after traveling to Utah to speak to the Federal Bar Association. Susan Wild (D) who represents the 7th District in Pennsylvania and is a distinguished graduate of our law school. I have only missed a couple of graduation in almost 30 years of teaching.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 21, 2023

It is an effort to reanimate a long dead legal claim against Trump, but could reanimate his presidential campaign. He is reportedly going to convert a misdemeanor for falsifying financial records into a prosecution of a federal crime. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and a professor at George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 1, 2024

But the Trump prosecution has forced many to confront the undeniable reality of the politicization of our legal system. A chilling return Yet, it is the politicization of the legal system that is the most chilling return to the Adams era. Legal analysts and commentators openly celebrated on MSNBC and CNN — joining many in the streets.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 18, 2023

It was an act of legal self-immolation as the president’s son engaged in flagrant contempt of Congress, a federal crime. Where Bowman’s offense was treated as a misdemeanor, Hunter’s offense is a felony. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at the George Washington University Law School. and Maurice C.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 1, 2023

The House now has credible, compelling evidence that the president may have committed high crimes and misdemeanors. Indeed, according to a poll from ABC News and the Washington Post this week, 58 percent believe that President Biden is being “held accountable under the law like any other president” in this inquiry.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

There was a time when legal disagreements could be passionate but not personal. Now even law deans have called Supreme Court justices “hacks” to the delight of their followers. I was singled out on this occasion for Tribe’s latest personal attack because I voiced a legal opinion different from his own.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 3, 2024

At that point, it became a legal canned hunt. To his credit, CNN legal analyst Elie Honig has previously said that this case was legally dubious, uniquely targeted Trump and could not succeed outside of an anti-Trump district. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at the George Washington University Law School.

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