JonathanTurley

AUGUST 9, 2022

Elias was not alone citing the possible use of a Section 2071 charge to block Trump’s expected presidential run in 2024. There is ample reason to doubt that the presidency would be deemed barred by statute in this fashion. The same is presumably true under Article II when it comes to the chief executive.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 25, 2024

During more than two-and-a-half hours of oral argument, some of the court’s conservative justices expressed concern about the prospect that, if former presidents do not have immunity, federal criminal laws could be used to target political opponents. trial forward before the 2024 election.

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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. They’ve charged him with everything short of ripping a label off a mattress.

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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 24, 2024

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. The misdemeanors in this case, including falsifying these payments, expired with the passage of the statute of limitations.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 31, 2021

COUNT FOUR (Violation of a Public Safety Statute: D.C. COUNT FIVE (Violation of a Public Safety Statute: D.C. In the end, free speech should be vindicated but these lawsuits also could bring a type of legal vindication for Trump before the 2024 election. COUNT TWO (Aiding and Abetting Assault and Battery).

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 21, 2023

There are serious challenges to this prosecution, including an argument that time has expired under the statute of limitations. Trump were seeking a way to prove the political weaponization of the criminal justice system, Bragg just fulfilled that narrative. They will be painted by this transparently political prosecution.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 25, 2024

Attorneys be appointed under statute or nominated by the president (and confirmed by the Senate). Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at the George Washington University School of Law. He is the author of “ The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage ” (Simon and Schuster, 2024).

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 12, 2023

Nevertheless, Comey chose this month to declare that, in the 2024 election, “it has to be Joe Biden.” There are a variety of challenges expected from the Trump team, including arguing that the government misused the civil statute of the Presidential Records Act to launch a criminal prosecution.

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