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America’s Justice System Needs a ‘Course Correction’: Jeremy Travis

The Crime Report

He was a deputy commissioner at the New York Police Department (NYPD) in the early 1990s, when violent crime rates began to plummet. More recently, as president of John Jay College at the City University of New York from 2004 to 2016, he helped to spread the focused-deterrence model across the country. Later, at the U.S.

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California Dreaming: Newsom’s Kidnapping Claim Against DeSantis is Long on Politics and Short on the Law

JonathanTurley

Newsom cited the kidnapping statute but apparently failed to read it or the underlying cases. Moreover, it is not clear how transporting migrants who entered the country illegally to another state is a violation of law. If so, there would be a host of local Democratic and federal officials who could be charged on that basis.

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Garland’s Theater of The Absurd: Why the Hunter Biden Scandal is No Longer a Laughing Matter

JonathanTurley

Below is my column in the New York Post on the expanding scandal surrounding the Hunter Biden investigation. 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. Dan Goldman of New York).

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Comey’s “Good Day”: How Political Prosecutions Became “Ethical Leadership” in the Pursuit of Trump

JonathanTurley

Below is my column in the New York Post on the level of joy being expressed by many over the indictment of former president Donald Trump, including former FBI Director James Comey. Various professors and pundits have declared that this unprecedented use of New York law would be perfectly legal and commendable.

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The Trump Trial in Manhattan is an Indictment of the New York Legal System

JonathanTurley

Below is my column in the New York Post on the start of the Trump trial today in New York. 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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Manifest Destiny: Alvin Bragg Searches for His Criminal Kailasa

JonathanTurley

Below is my column in the New York Post on the continued drama in Manhattan over the possible Trump indictment. 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.

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It’s Moving, It’s Alive! Alvin Bragg Prepares the Ultimate Frankenstein Indictment

JonathanTurley

Below is my column in the New York Post on the expected indictment against former President Donald Trump. He is reportedly going to convert a misdemeanor for falsifying financial records into a prosecution of a federal crime. Locals in New York will be thrilled, but will the rest of the country join the pitch-folk carrying mob?