JonathanTurley

MARCH 6, 2024

Those conversations allegedly occurred as late as January 2024 with Cindi Lee Yeager, a co-chief deputy district attorney for Cobb County. Willis ran against a district attorney accused of using his office to pursue sexual affairs and continues to claim that she “restored integrity” to her office through ethical leadership.

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AUGUST 20, 2023

The New York indictment, led by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, is the weakest. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ demand to try all 19 defendants together in six months is wildly unrealistic. Yet, there is still a great deal of runway between the arraignments and any incarceration.

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JUNE 25, 2024

Scholars and former prosecutors (including former attorneys general) have argued that the appointment of special counsels like Smith are unconstitutional. Attorneys be appointed under statute or nominated by the president (and confirmed by the Senate). This glaring inconsistency has led to a number of challenges.

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APRIL 26, 2024

Roberts read its statement that “a former president can be prosecuted for his official acts because the fact of the prosecution means that the former president has acted in defiance of the laws” and noted it sounds like “a former president can be prosecuted because he is being prosecuted.” The jumper responds, “So far so good.”

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APRIL 20, 2023

attorney for the District of Delaware. At the same time, Attorney General Merrick Garland has steadfastly ignored the obvious basis for the appointment of a special counsel despite repeated references to the President as an intended recipient of influence peddling proceeds. Take t he investigation of David Weiss, the U.S.

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AUGUST 30, 2023

Below is my column in The Messenger on the early struggle of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to preserve her strategy of holding a mass 19-person trial over the 2020 election case involving former president Donald Trump. The hearing on the removal gave a glimpse into the case. In Washington, U.S.

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JANUARY 11, 2025

Merchan allowed a dead misdemeanor to be resuscitated by allowing Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg to effectively prosecute declined federal offenses. That includes businesses who view this case and the equally absurd civil case brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James as creating a dangerous and even lawless environment.

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AUGUST 16, 2022

Below is my column in USA Today on the diminishing role of Attorney General Merrick Garland at the Justice Department after a series of controversies. ” If one image sums up the incredibly shrinking stature of Attorney General Merrick Garland, it is that line in the aftermath of the Mar-a-Lago search. Unlike the U.S.

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JULY 1, 2024

Writing for the majority, Chief Justice John Roberts emphasized that the president “is not above the law.” 6, 2024 – before the court of appeals issued its opinion rejecting Trump’s claim to immunity. Smith went to the Supreme Court later that month, asking the justices to weigh in on Trump’s immunity without waiting for the U.S.

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OCTOBER 10, 2023

He could wait to see if Biden does not run for reelection or loses in 2024. It is the type of question that Attorney General Merrick Garland should be eager to answer. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.

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AUGUST 10, 2022

6 committee’s main aim is to ensure President Trump can’t run in 2024.” Indeed, much of this evidence would have been hard to refute like the deposition of former Attorney General Bill Barr on the election fraud allegations. Only eight percent answered in the affirmative while 89 percent said it made no change at all in their views.

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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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JUNE 11, 2023

It will be difficult to get through a trial before the 2024 presidential election. The 2024 election could become a referendum on this case. 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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MARCH 7, 2025

The two graphs below track the Justices word counts across all argument in the 2023/2024 Term and those already completed in this 2024/2025 Term. The remainder of this piece proceeds by breaking down and comparing their argument styles across eight oral arguments, four from the 2023/2024 Term and four from the 2024/2025 Term.

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APRIL 27, 2022

The list of civil cases includes the ongoing investigation by New York Attorney General Letitia James into whether he falsely inflated the value of his assets in annual financial statements. However, after a lifetime of crime, corruption, and impunity, the criminal law may finally be catching up with the Houdini of white-collar crime.

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AUGUST 20, 2023

5 voice mail at Chutkan’s chambers in which she called her a racial slur and threatened her, saying, “If Trump doesn’t get elected in 2024, we are coming to kill you, so tread lightly, b—-.” Abigail Jo Shry, 43, of Alvin, Tex., allegedly left an Aug. ” That hardly jives with the ricin and traveling arsenal.

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JUNE 13, 2023

With a 76-year-old client, the defense attorneys have to play a perfect game. Indeed, the defense has charged that prosecutor Jay Bratt suggested that the Justice Department might sink Nauta attorney Stanley Woodward’s application for a federal judgeship unless his client cooperates and changes his testimony.

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MAY 13, 2022

…So there is both a national security angle and a potentially criminal angle and the most encouraging thing to me because I’m worried about accountability so that we don’t have a repeat of all of these things in 2024 of the attempted coup and insurrection.

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JANUARY 11, 2023

Attorney General Merrick Garland knows that many citizens no longer trust the government and his current position will only deepen those misgivings. He announced that he was compelled to appoint a special counsel on the Mar-a-Lago and other possible offenses by Trump after he officially became a candidate for the 2024 presidential election.

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OCTOBER 29, 2023

The court dismissed the “tawdry tales” offered by the DOJ and declared that it was far more concerned with the damage that Smith was causing to the legal system with his virtually limitless interpretation of criminality. In doing so, he is fueling anger over the perception of a weaponized criminal justice system.

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MAY 1, 2023

However, a FARA charge would be embarrassing to both President Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland. What’s more, efforts to conceal influence peddling are often criminal acts, including FARA violations. A criminal charge could put such motives before a jury — and the American public. What happens then is anyone’s guess.

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JUNE 30, 2023

Some Republican presidential candidates have stated already that they will (or would consider) pardons for Trump if they are elected in 2024. 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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MARCH 31, 2021

attorney Patrick Malone, who previously filed ethics complaints against lawyers representing the Trump campaign or the Republican party. I have repeatedly asked in columns why, if incitement was so clear and public, there has yet to be a criminal charge brought against Trump. The 40-page lawsuit was written by D.C.

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JULY 28, 2023

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. That is what is called a “happy ending” in Washington.

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MARCH 18, 2024

District Attorney Fani Willis had described Wade as “ a Southern gentleman. 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. Fulton County, Ga. Me, not so much.”

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 22, 2022

It will be the fifth chance for Attorney General Merrick Garland to take a modest step to assure concerned citizens over the basis or motivation for the raid. Instead, the government scooped up everything, from passports to attorney-client material. Garland’s third opportunity came with the raid itself.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 11, 2022

I previously testified in Congress on the seizure of some boxes of material at Mar-a-Lago and the authority of the National Archives to seek intervention by the attorney general to force compliance with the PRA. The PRA is rarely subject to criminal prosecution, and past prosecutions have resulted in remarkably light punishments.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 23, 2023

Below is my column in the Hill on how the two criminal investigations over classified documents could create an unprecedented constitutional conflict in 2024. These two investigations should take less than the average — but they are starting in 2023, with a presidential election in 2024. One or both could be indicted.

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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. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg boasted during his 2021 campaign about being best suited to go after Trump, and he is making good on his boast with a highly dubious bootstrapped legal theory.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 6, 2025

His order suggests that, if there is any interruption or delay in his sentencing, he might follow the advice of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and suspend sentencing for four years, a terrible option that we previously discussed. Since Trumps conviction in May 2024, Merchan has contemplated his sentencing options.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 15, 2024

After an absurd $450 million decision courtesy of Attorney General Letitia James, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg will bring his equally controversial criminal prosecution over hush money paid to former porn star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election. However, this is a Pyrrhic victory for the New York legal system.

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JANUARY 12, 2023

The discovery (and later addition of a second batch of classified material at a second location) is magnifying the inherently conflicted position of Attorney General Merrick Garland. Attorney John Lausch for investigation. On Monday, during a state visit to Mexico, Biden declined to answer questions from reporters.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 17, 2023

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. Acting Assistant Attorney General Mary Lawton issued the three-page memo , which was lacking both depth and support. Currently, those odds are roughly even. Pardons are no different.

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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. His announced intention to run for the presidency in 2024 may have expedited the appointment of a special counsel. Former President Trump.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

The public statements of Trump alone would not make for a credible case for criminal incitement under the controlling case law. Nevertheless, District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine garnered widespread acclaim by announcing soon after the Jan. 6 riot that he was investigating Trump for a possible incitement charge.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 12, 2023

In April, Trump pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg related to hush money payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels prior to the 2016 election. Nevertheless, Comey chose this month to declare that, in the 2024 election, “it has to be Joe Biden.”

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JANUARY 10, 2025

Once considered the premier legal system in the country, figures like New York Attorney General Letitia James , Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, Justices Arthur F.Engoron and Juan Merchan have caused the system to be weaponized for political purposes. million New York votes, or 42.7%, in the 2024 election.

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