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The Jackson Pollock School of Prosecution: Why The Latest Trump Indictment is Both Serious and Dangerous

JonathanTurley

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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Cannon Fodder: The Media Piles on Federal Judge After Lionizing Manhattan Judge

JonathanTurley

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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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. The hearing on the removal gave a glimpse into the case. In Washington, U.S.

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Georgia Prosecutors Should Go, But That Won’t Necessarily End the Case Against Trump

JonathanTurley

Below is my column in The Messenger on the unfolding Fani Willis scandal in Georgia. The Georgia courts have established that a district attorney should be disqualified when there is a personal interest in the defendant’s conviction ( Whitworth v. Wade also has been held in contempt in his messy divorce. State , 275 Ga.

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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.” Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.

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“Oh Georgia, No Peace I Find”: The Fourth Indictment of Donald Trump and the Criminalization of Election Controversies

JonathanTurley

Below is my column in The Messenger on the Georgia indictment. Indeed, every call, speech, and tweet appears a criminal step in the conspiracy. District Attorney Fani Willis appears to have elected to charge everything and everyone and let God sort them out. However, it will be anything but costless.

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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington — With a Possible New Indictment of Donald Trump 

JonathanTurley

This would be the third criminal indictment of Trump and there may still be a fourth coming in Georgia. Smith has a reputation in conservative circles for stretching the criminal code in high-profile cases, including the prosecution of then-Virginia Gov. However, relying on bad advice or bad law is not a crime.