The Crime Report

MAY 24, 2021

New York Attorney General Letitia James’ announcement last week that her office was “actively investigating the Trump Organization in a criminal capacity” has added to the former president’s legal worries, but the biggest landmine believed to threaten his political future has yet to be detonated. Capitol on Jan. and conviction?Trump

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 11, 2023

It will be difficult to get through a trial before the 2024 presidential election. Regarding Mar-a-Lago, the reported inclusion of a charge under the Espionage Act is a bit surprising, given the novel legal issues surrounding the handling of such documents. The 2024 election could become a referendum on this case.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 17, 2023

Legal analysts often are asked to give the percentages on a case’s outcome or conviction. Thus, the odds of Trump going to prison could well be the same as the odds of him or another Republican winning the 2024 presidential election. The Constitution does not bar such self-dealing any more than it bars self-pardons.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 3, 2024

However, it wasn’t a reference to the Colorado Supreme Court’s recent 4-3 decision to disqualify Donald Trump from running in the 2024 election. ” Justice Brett Kavanaugh also was an attorney on the Bush team in 2000 and played a role in the recounts and challenges out of Volusia County, Florida. The ruling in Bush v.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 15, 2023

Here is the column: With the arraignment of Donald Trump in Miami, Department of Justice (DOJ) special counsel Jack Smith is pushing forward with a historic criminal prosecution that could result in a terminal prison sentence for the 76-year-old former president and, at least for now, the leading Republican candidate in the 2024 election.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 3, 2023

Here is the column: The 2024 presidential campaign technically began months ago with the first announced candidates. The New York indictment of Trump has been widely criticized as politically motivated and legally flawed. But it too would likely be pending by Election Day 2024.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 31, 2021

Eric Swalwell against former President Donald Trump as a serious miscalculation that could result in a legal vindication for Trump either on the trial or appellate levels. In my view, the lawsuit contravenes free speech as well as controlling case law from the Supreme Court. I recently wrote about the lawsuit by Rep.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 8, 2021

After all, an array of legal experts has insisted for months that this was clear criminal incitement, not an exercise of free speech. District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine insisted weeks ago that Trump’s alleged crime would be investigated. One might think this would be a lead-pipe cinch of a case.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Below is my column in The Messenger of the Colorado Supreme Court decision disqualifying former President Donald Trump from the 2024 election. Eleni Kounalakis publicly called upon the Secretary of State to “explore every legal option” to follow the same path as Colorado. In California, Lieutenant Gov.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 5, 2024

Here is the column: As the decisions disqualifying former President Donald Trump from the 2024 election work their way through the courts, a new filing in Pennsylvania seeks the same “ballot cleansing” by barring Republican Rep. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 28, 2023

Facing an impeachment inquiry , low public support , and a son in the legal dock, Biden could use the case to close out his political career. 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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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

I have long been a vocal critic of the theory, which I view as historically and legally unfounded. Trump on the presidential primary ballot when it certifies the ballot on January 5, 2024,” The scope of the provision is one of the inherent questions presented by this theory. That includes the D.C. I hope that she does. Griswald

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JonathanTurley

JULY 20, 2023

Today’s legal-political sequel, however, may prove to be a bit more controversial. 6 allegations are far more tenuous legally. Such an indictment could come at a high legal and political cost. However, relying on bad advice or bad law is not a crime. is obvious. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 29, 2024

” That mantra of President Joe Biden and other democrats has suggested that “this may be our last election” if the Republicans win in 2024. California has always prided itself on the ability of citizens to vote on changes in the law directly through referendums and ballot measures. “Democracy is on the ballot.”

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 25, 2024

Most recently, the left expressed nothing short of horror that Judge Cannon allowed the Trump team to argue a point of constitutional law in a hearing. Scholars and former prosecutors (including former attorneys general) have argued that the appointment of special counsels like Smith are unconstitutional.

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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

JULY 4, 2021

Democratic National Committee, the court closed its term with a decision that will resonate not just legally but politically for years to come. The lawsuit against Georgia’s new voting rules was clearly timed to beat the court to the punch, but Brnovich delivers a haymaker for those seeking to block such state laws.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 11, 2024

The political culture of short selling is nowhere more evident than in the “ballot-cleansing” efforts of Democratic officials and activists to remove Trump’s name from 2024 ballots as well as to remove primary opponents against Biden.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 18, 2023

As I myself covered the indictment as a legal analyst for Fox, I once again felt a certain longing for the abandon shown by some of my counterparts who dismissed any concern over what are now roughly 100 criminal charges against former President Donald Trump in four different indictments. His fellow committee member, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.),

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