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Being Blount: The First Impeachment May Offer The Best Defense For Trump

JonathanTurley

Each senator must decide whether such a trial is constitutional before deciding whether an accused can be retroactively removed for a high crime and misdemeanor. There are good-faith arguments for the constitutional authority to render judgment on such acts and to impose the future disqualification from federal office.

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The Land that Law Forgot: The Supreme Court and the New York Legal Wasteland

JonathanTurley

Through various contortions, Bragg converted a dead misdemeanor case into 34 felonies in an unprecedented prosecution. New Yorkers and the media insisted that such selective prosecution was in defense of the “rule of law.” On the New Yorker map circa 2024, once you cross the Hudson River eastward, you enter a legal wilderness.

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Ragefully Wrong: A Response to Professor Laurence Tribe

JonathanTurley

Tribe often shows little patience for the niceties of constitutional law or tradition. Even though a federal court and even Democrats admitted that Clinton committed the crime of perjury, Tribe assured Democrats that it fell entirely outside of the constitutional standard of a high crime and misdemeanor.