JonathanTurley

JANUARY 11, 2025

It likely changed few times in the court of public opinion. ” If so, that is a chilling indictment of the entire New York court system. Merchan allowed a dead misdemeanor to be resuscitated by allowing Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg to effectively prosecute declined federal offenses. from the judge himself.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. A day later, Trump posted on his Truth Social account that “ the Supreme Court must intercede.” A federal district court in Washington agreed and dismissed the obstruction charges. 6 attack on the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 1, 2023

A court will now have to decide whether this child can call herself a Biden and whether her father can reduce his level of financial support. Capping off the scandal with a plea to a couple of tax charges and a gun form charge would minimize the damage before the 2024 election. What happens then is anyone’s guess.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Four Washington Post journalists analyzed Donald Trump’s polling numbers for the 2024 presidential election among all voters as well as personal interviews with Republicans from multiple states.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 4, 2023

Turns out the payments of hush money to at least two women—misdemeanor offenses—were not really what these indictments were all about. Ergo, there were no misdemeanor charges, only first-degree felonies. With additional criminal indictments coming to courts in Georgia, Washington, D.C., It all depends on the decision of the D.C.

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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. Lawyers have been scouring the civil and criminal codes for any basis to sue or prosecute Trump before the upcoming 2024 election. It is hard to miss.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 6, 2025

Since Trumps conviction in May 2024, Merchan has contemplated his sentencing options. So, after the Justice Department declined to prosecute federal violations, Bragg effectively did so in state court with Merchans blessing. Acting Justice Juan Merchan will finally decide whether to be or not to be the judge to sentence Trump to jail.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

His announced intention to run for the presidency in 2024 may have expedited the appointment of a special counsel. If this investigation produces the basis for an obstruction charge or misdemeanors, Garland might have been inclined to use his discretion to forgo prosecution and avoid political disruption or questions of bias.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 17, 2021

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. If an effort to bar his candidacy in 2024 were to fail in the courts, it could resuscitate his standing, which is currently at an all-time low.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 24, 2024

Through various contortions, Bragg converted a dead misdemeanor case into 34 felonies in an unprecedented prosecution. This week in the Supreme Court, a glimpse of the legal landscape outside of Manhattan came more sharply into view. New Yorkers and the media insisted that such selective prosecution was in defense of the “rule of law.”

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 10, 2025

However, the most lasting judgment will be against the New York court system itself in allowing this travesty of justice to occur. Bragg took a long-dead misdemeanor and zapped it back into life with a novel and unfounded theory. million New York votes, or 42.7%, in the 2024 election. John Fetterman, D-Pa.,

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 24, 2024

It was the criminal theory itself that seemed crafted around the standard for obscenity famously described by Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart in the case of Jacobellis v. We have never seen a case like this one where a dead misdemeanor from 2016 could be revived as a felony just before any election in 2024. Ohio , 378 U.S.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 9, 2022

Yet, Berger was allowed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor and did not have to serve any jail time. However, critics were not particularly interested in whether Trump might have some suspended misdemeanor sentence. Elias was not alone citing the possible use of a Section 2071 charge to block Trump’s expected presidential run in 2024.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 13, 2025

On May 15, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the federal governments efforts to be able to generally implement President Trumps executive order ending birthright citizenship the guarantee of citizenship to virtually everyone born in the United States. What happened in the lower courts? How many cases are there?

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Now even law deans have called Supreme Court justices “hacks” to the delight of their followers. He has supported the call for packing the Supreme Court as long overdue. Every constitutional road seems to inevitably lead to where Democrats want to go — from court packing to unilateral executive action.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 21, 2023

He is reportedly going to convert a misdemeanor for falsifying financial records into a prosecution of a federal crime. The limit is two years for a misdemeanor and, even if he can convert this into a felony, it is not clear if he can meet the longer five-year limitation. Bragg is combining parts from both state and federal codes.

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