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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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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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

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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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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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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NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Her guest, MSNBC legal analyst and Georgetown law professor Paul Butler, concurred and called it “the greatest performance of (his) life.”. Butler declared Rittenhouse “ was well-prepared by his defense attorneys to disrupt his image as a trigger-happy vigilante who went on a shooting rampage at a Black Lives Matter protest.”.

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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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JUNE 9, 2023

to be charged criminally for transporting 36 people to Sacramento. California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) chimed in, declaring the flight from Florida might be “ State-sanctioned kidnapping.” Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, announced that she was taking a look, “long and hard,” at potential charges.

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JUNE 7, 2022

Shapiro Professor Of Public Interest Law. The George Washington University Law School. Fellow, Liberty And National Security Program, Brennan Center For Justice. Former Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation. Washington, D.C. Garnell Whitfield, Jr. Buffalo, NY. Former U.S. Northern District of Ohio. Cleveland, OH.

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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

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 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

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

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

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

There also were glaring prosecution blunders, including a potentially case-ending violation of a court order — and long-standing constitutional law — in using Rittenhouse’s post-arrest silence against him. A strikingly different image of the victims and shootings quickly emerged.

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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

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

OCTOBER 10, 2023

It is the type of question that Attorney General Merrick Garland should be eager to answer. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School. Indeed, it should have been clarified at the outset with the mandate given to Hur.

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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

DECEMBER 3, 2023

The testimony put the controversial demands of New York Attorney General James into sharp relief. The charges brought by New York State Attorney General Letitia James were curious from the start. Below is my column in The Messenger on the recent testimony of bankers in the Trump fraud trial.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

That would not only allow the use of the documents in the criminal investigation but it would blunt any negative ruling over other material that may have been improperly seized or retained. The DOJ itself acknowledged not just errors in its filtering process but also the seizure of potentially attorney-client protected material.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 19, 2024

Many of us have criticized Trump for his personal attacks on Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis as being racist and unethical; he even accused her of having an affair with a gang member , a claim that was widely contested as unfounded and denied by key figures. Wade also has been held in contempt in his messy divorce.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Indeed, most defense attorneys routinely discourage their clients from testifying in actual criminal cases because the risks outweigh any benefits. One reason is that, until now, only sitting presidents have been impeached and presidents balked at the prospect of being examined as head of the Executive Branch by the Legislative Branch.

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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 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

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

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

JUNE 24, 2024

New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) ran on a pledge to bag former president Donald Trump. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg also pledged to get Trump. She also sought to dissolve the National Rifle Association.)

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Former acting Attorney General Sally Yates was irate at the move and described Comey as going “rogue” in the move. Comey later bragged that that he “probably wouldn’t have … gotten away with it” in other administrations, but he sent “a couple guys over” to question Flynn.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 14, 2021

I do not believe that the President’s speech constituted criminal incitement unless there is more evidence of the President’s intent or knowledge. Attorney General has said that he may charge Trump. I believe such a prosecution would collapse at trial or upon appeal.

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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

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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