JonathanTurley

MAY 19, 2021

Indeed, after being quoted in a Washington Post article in favor of the Fourth Circuit ruling, I received emails denouncing me as a de facto racist, including one from an attorney condemning me for “defending bigotry under the guise of constitutional freedom.”

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MAY 12, 2021

Indeed, after being quoted in a Washington Post article in favor of this ruling last night, I received emails denouncing me as a de facto racist, including one an attorney condemning me for “defending bigotry under the guise of constitutional freedom.”

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JonathanTurley

JULY 24, 2021

As a criminal defense attorney, I have long been a critic of the degree to which the FBI often pushes defendants to take actions to trigger criminal charges. The question is whether Trask’s arrest could undermine those cases. The answer is yes.

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APRIL 29, 2022

The trial transcript includes Tyler’s statement to the court: “I wanted to put on the record that my attorneys are using the defense that I don’t agree with. … Vannoy , James Tyler maintains that his lawyer also conceded Tyler’s guilt over his objection in his August 1996 trial and sentencing.

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DECEMBER 9, 2022

Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School. The “filtering” of free speech quickly became a choice on what views are worthy of attention. After all, if you cannot trust “Trust” professionals, who can you trust?

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 30, 2021

Kevin Steele, the Montgomery County district attorney who convicted Cosby, issued a statement that was embarrassing in its evasion of responsibility. The trial was also undermined by the decision of the trial court to allow women to testify as witnesses on uncharged alleged crimes against Cosby.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 14, 2022

I have a newfound respect for the efforts of the attorneys, judges, jurors, and goal in living as an, as giving an accused person a opportunity to have a case heard. For that, I am truly sorry.” He added that Lucci and the court staff had done a great job and that. “I have never gone through trial before. That’s all anyone can ask.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The law covers violent crimes, sexual assault, and assault of a child. The law requires that individuals “shall as soon as reasonably possible notify the prosecuting attorney, law enforcement, medical assistance, or other public officials.” For example, Washington state allows for the charging of a misdemeanor.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 2, 2022

million payment in attorney fees. The jury in June 2019 awarded the Gibsons $44 million in compensatory and punitive damages. A judge later reduced the award to $25 million. That was just upheld and the appellate court also upheld an award of $6.2 That comes to $31.2 million not including millions spent by the college to fight this case.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The Court is skeptical at best that the grand jury received all of the relevant information regarding that scene if Mr. Babin’s First Assistant District Attorney did not. When asked if he thought anything else occurred in that scene, he simply responded, “No, sir.” Here is the opinion: Netflix, Inc.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 27, 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.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 13, 2022

It should not violate HIPPA or other laws to confirm that a report was filed and the victim has been protected by authorities. ” Those three words from Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost left many of us perplexed on Monday night when he said that his search for a notorious child rape case in his state had turned up nothing.

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DECEMBER 10, 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.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 25, 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. There is a host of people, from his family to foreign officials around the world, who will bear witness to that.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 16, 2021

The targeting of recipients of this information in Congress and in the media constitutes direct attacks on Article I and the First Amendment of the Constitution. This will be one of the topics of a meeting convened by Attorney General Merrick Garland with media officials this week.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 2, 2023

Goldman was a Democratic staff attorney when the House impeached Donald Trump in 2019 largely on the basis of a single telephone call to the president of Ukraine. 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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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 22, 2022

The most cited was the contempt case against former Attorney General Eric Holder. Holder was a classic executive privilege claim as the Attorney General advising the President. That has led to various pundits insisting that there is no such comparison and nothing to see there. In that sense, there is a world of difference.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Here is the column: In “A Man for All Seasons,” Sir Thomas More confronts Richard Rich, a former protege who lied in court to convict him in exchange for being named attorney general of Wales. As Rich passes by, More asks: “For Wales? ” The scene came to mind after Doug Jensen , one of the Jan.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 15, 2021

He argues that the court is allowed to take “judicial notice” of the agreement in light of the fact that it has been used previously in court, including the voluntary dismissal of her battery claims against Epstein’s former attorney, Alan Dershowitz in a parallel case. See Giuffre v. Dershowitz , No. 19-cv-03377-LAP (S.D.N.Y.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Now, the Michigan Attorney General and others are suggesting that Republicans who oppose certification or even meet with President Donald Trump on the issue could be criminally investigated or charged. That would seem an effort to use the criminal code for the purposes of intimidation or coercion. Imagine if this was U.S.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 7, 2020

One of the longest standing debates in constitutional law is dismissed as ill-informed by some of the same experts. After host Lawrence O’Donnell said he believed a president could give himself a pardon, Tribe proclaimed such a view is “incoherent and incompatible” as a constitutional matter. That is the point of a pardon.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 16, 2023

Below is my column in the Daily Beast on the fourth indictment of former President Donald Trump by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. The 98-page indictment from Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is the legal version of Pollock’s style of throwing paint splatters on canvas as artistic expression.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Former campaign aide George Papadopoulos and attorney Alex Van Der Zwaan served sentences. That was also the point that former Attorney General William Barr tried to make in his press conference on the summary of the special counsel investigation.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 25, 2024

Most recently, the left expressed nothing short of horror that Judge Cannon allowed the Trump team to argue a point of constitutional law in a hearing. Scholars and former prosecutors (including former attorneys general) have argued that the appointment of special counsels like Smith are unconstitutional.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

We have been discussing the use of the criminal code by Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel (D) to threaten people who post videos on alleged voter fraud or legislators who raise such objections in the state. He was appropriately asked if he had brought his allegations of voter fraud to the state attorney general.

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Above The Law

MARCH 7, 2025

She posed scenarios to clarify which actions could be deemed private, such as collaborating with private attorneys to disseminate false election claims or submitting fraudulent elector slates. The post Divided By Principle: How Justices Barrett And Jackson Are Shaping The Future Of Constitutional Law appeared first on Above the Law.

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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.”

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 17, 2023

That is what attorney and former IRS official Lois Lerner did — twice — when House Republicans wanted to ask her about the Obama administration targeting conservative groups. That will force the hand of Attorney General Merrick Garland, who aggressively pursued Trump figures for contempt, including former Trump adviser Steve Bannon.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 14, 2022

However, as a criminal defense attorney, there are some gaps and disconnects that I expect could cause difficulties at trial on the sedition conspiracy charge. The indictment is strong on detailing the alleged violent rhetoric and machinations of the defendants.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 21, 2021

Prosecuting the powerless is not usually part of the oath of district attorneys. Schleicher’s concession adds to an already difficult case because the other officers did take steps that can be cited by their defense attorneys as seeking to help Floyd.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 20, 2022

Officials then moved under “Red Flag” laws to seize four rifles and three handguns. Butte County District Attorney Mike Ramsey focused on his statement that “Chinese need to commit mass shootings against America for xenophobia and betrayal. Come on my Chinese folks, white graduating is open season for y’all.”.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

District Judge Aileen Cannon will not necessarily change the ultimate trajectory of the case but it will force critical reviews and rulings on issues from attorney-client privilege to executive privilege. It was unfortunately another step that Attorney General Merrick Garland could have taken but refused to do so. The ruling by U.S.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 3, 2021

After the park clearing, the media uniformly denounced then-Attorney General Bill Barr for ordering the park to be cleared so that President Trump could hold his controversial photo op in front of the St. John’s Church.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 31, 2022

“As the former President’s filing indicates, the FBI agents and DOJ attorney were permitted to visit the storage room. The Justice Department itself recognizes that it may have gathered some attorney-client privileged documents in this ridiculously broad search. I have supported such an appointment, even at this late date.

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JonathanTurley

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.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 2, 2022

However, there are elements to the decision that are deeply concerning on issues ranging from free speech to attorney-client privilege. Given the Posts long record of running professed slam dunk criminal charges against Trump that amounted to nothing, that is hardly a surprise. After all, the media heralded the statements of D.C.

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Above The Law

MARCH 21, 2025

In a series of recent decisions, federal courts across the United States have addressed a range of significant legal issues, from civil rights and constitutional law to administrative authority and criminal justice. Area of Law: Constitutional Law, Civil Rights, Federal Authority: 25 points. United States v.

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