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Fani Willis Fights for a Mass Trial As the Georgia Defendants Scatter

JonathanTurley

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. Of course, Willis is not the only person with a challenging calendar.

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Hunter Biden’s New Sobriety Defense Lifts the Blackout Dates on Addiction

JonathanTurley

The problem for the case is that Hunter and his counsel appear to have an elastic calendar on his addiction, depending on its value in a given case or controversy. Even before the latest calendar correction, the addiction defense only heightened the concerns over corrupt influence-peddling. He overcame it. He wrote about it.”It

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“A Sad Day”: How the Colorado Disqualification Case is Bringing Back Some Bad Memories for the Supreme Court

JonathanTurley

” 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. At the time, another rising star in Republican legal circles was getting her start as a young law firm associate. Gore ] won’t” return to the court.

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Gagging Donald Trump: Why Smith’s “Narrowly Tailored Motion” is a Neither Narrow Nor Wise

JonathanTurley

Smith seeks to bar comments “regarding the identity, testimony, or credibility of prospective witnesses” and “statements about any party, witness, attorney, court personnel, or potential jurors that are disparaging and inflammatory, or intimidating.” However, there are laws on the books allowing for the prosecution of such cases.

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The Proper Way to Impeach: Why Steve Bannon was Right for the Wrong Reason

JonathanTurley

As I told the committee yesterday, “the Constitution is now on your side, the calendar is not.” President Biden may be guilty of impeachable conduct, but that constitutional finding must be based on evidence, not impulse. Now that obstruction is likely to be addressed quickly by the House.