JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

One issue to watch is how Judge Bruce Schroeder handles the gun count, which is based on what I believe is a flawed legal interpretation by the prosecution. Here is the column: The trial of Kyle Rittenhouse increasingly seems like a legal version of the parable of the blind men and the elephant. The narrative can overwhelm the facts.

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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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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 21, 2021

Like the last meeting , various legal experts testified and answered questions from commissioners in a series of panels spread throughout the day. In their view, most of the popular reform proposals are unnecessary, would be subject to constitutional challenge, or should be enacted by the court’s own internal processes, if at all.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 13, 2022

He is also a graduate of Columbia Law School. In Harlan’s case, the story arc that first attracted me was the notion of posthumous vindication – how a man who went so far out on a limb in his time could land so comfortably in the mainstream of legal thought. I corresponded with Canellos about his book. The back story.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 12, 2023

I began my association with the House as a teenaged leadership page in the 1970s and continued through to my legal representation of the House in federal court. I have testified more than 100 times over the last four decades on a wide array of constitutional and statutory issues.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 9, 2022

As discussed below, there could be legal as well as political ramifications as the House moves forward with the long-delayed investigation of these social media companies. It is still early to determine possible legal implications of these files, but there are some areas likely to be of immediate concern for counsel.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 8, 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

NOVEMBER 16, 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 8, 2022

It was always doubtful that a law school would take the unprecedented step of barring a sitting Supreme Court justice. It’s not an unfamiliar position for the Supreme Court justice, but it generated surprising support at a leading law school. The reason? His vote to overturn Roe v.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

denounced me for offering “legal opinions” without actually working at Twitter. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and a professor at George Washington University Law School. After responding to a question on the specific content of the files (released and confirmed by Twitter itself), Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.),

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 27, 2023

” (He did not explain why a message legally acquired by the government from the cloud account of his client would be illegal to include in the report of a congressional investigatory committee.) His lawyer, Chris Clark, first insisted that the release of the messages “are not only irresponsible, they are illegal.”

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JonathanTurley

MAY 31, 2023

Tom would make it with his mother to the United States and ultimately studied law, with a J.D. at New York University Law School and his LL.M. degrees in international law from Harvard Law School. What followed next was even less plausible. I think of the number 3930. I think of Tom Buergenthal.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 3, 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

AUGUST 26, 2023

However, the greatest case for an impeachment inquiry was made by Attorney General Merrick Garland himself. the case for an inquiry came from a most unlikely source: Attorney General Merrick Garland. the case for an inquiry came from a most unlikely source: Attorney General Merrick Garland.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 18, 2022

When I was clerking in Louisiana after graduating law school, there was story of a rather notorious local judge asking counsel in a criminal case if he was ready to present the case of the defendant. Jennifer Granholm (D-Mich) in 2007 after a long legal career as private counsel. Gleicher was appointed by Gov.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 9, 2021

The announcement fulfilled a campaign promise by the president, who last fall proposed the idea of a commission after he declined to endorse efforts by liberals to expand the Supreme Court – efforts that Justice Stephen Breyer criticized in a speech on Tuesday at Harvard Law School. Elise Boddie, professor of law and Judge Robert L.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 11, 2023

” It turns out she might have been more accurate than she thought — because Fauci legally may have been just a “regular guy” giving out billions without authority. What is equally baffling is that the House informed the administration that it was presumptively in violation of federal law. Rand Paul (R-Ky.),

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Moreover, besides the benefits to his family (which would legally constitute benefits in criminal cases ), there are references in Hunter’s emails to giving his father income, paying bills, and using shared accounts and credit cards.

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Above The Law

JULY 3, 2025

Did the attorney ever explain to the client that a check for the full amount of the judgment may not magically appear? In this forthcoming law school term, what are constitutional law professors going to include in their curricula? She remembers practicing law in a kinder, gentler time. How did this happen?

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

It is important to note that, while influence-peddling can be done legally, it is uniformly viewed as corrupt. 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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LawTechnologyToday

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

He has found considerable success as a rising star in the Arizona legal industry and had the opportunity to argue before the Supreme Court on three different occasions. You can learn more on The Entrekin Law Firm’s personal injury page. Prior to law school, I tended to avoid situations that would make me feel uneasy.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2022

In 1973, Beckwith was a recent graduate of law school and was working as a political reporter for TIME magazine. During an illustrious career as a constitutional law scholar and a top Supreme Court advocate, Walter Dellinger argued 24 times before the court, including in some of the biggest cases of the past 30 years.

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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 14, 2023

It is a dangerous erosion of separation between the White House and the president’s personal legal team. 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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At the Lectern

APRIL 7, 2025

Grodin — also a Court of Appeal justice, labor lawyer, author, and law professor — was lauded by jurists and colleagues. Grodin was a brilliant jurist whose contributions to Californias legal systemas a labor lawyer, Supreme Court justice, and professorcontinue to resonate. ” And a personal remembrance.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 6, 2023

criticized me for offering “legal opinions” without working at Twitter. When I pointed out that he was quoting from a case justifying the arrest of socialists due to their political views during the Red Scare, Goldman shot back that “we don’t need a law class here.” Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.)

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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

DECEMBER 26, 2023

For too many legal experts, Trump offers the release of rage and the ability to adopt of the same dismissive, cavalier attitude of others when it comes to legal rights. However, if the Trump name appears in the caption of a case, many legal experts suddenly jettison all due process concerns or sense of restraint.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 5, 2024

Of course, he ignores Democratic members who sought to block certification of Republican presidents under the very same law with no factual or legal basis. With the support of elected officials across the country, they can then join Stilp in moving from burning flags to torching the Constitution in a fit of exhilarating rage.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 17, 2023

It exposes the origin of the collusion effort in the Clinton campaign, which hid its funding in legal fees. Attorney General Merrick Garland, in releasing a report that concluded this investigation never should have occurred, made no statement whatsoever. The Durham report is everything that the FBI investigation was not.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 17, 2023

In holding this spectacle, Biden and his legal team committed another unforced error. 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. Attorney in D.C., Hunter can now be held in contempt of Congress.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 3, 2024

As someone covering the 2000 opinion as a CBS News legal analyst at the time, I was taken aback by how the motivations and even the integrity of the justices was challenged in reaching their decision. At the time, another rising star in Republican legal circles was getting her start as a young law firm associate.

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Above The Law

MAY 5, 2025

note : Please welcome Renee Knake Jefferson back to the pages of Above the Law. Subscribe to her Substack, Legal Ethics Roundup, here. Welcome to what captivates, haunts, inspires, and surprises me every week in the world of legal ethics. 2025 NYC Rule of Law Rally 2025 by David Lat is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Legally, there are both individuals and institutions that could see significant changes with the new division of power in Washington. Despite Attorney General Merrick Garland’s refusal to appoint a special counsel, they will face investigations launched with the full authority of the Oversight Committee.

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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. Attorney General Merrick] Garland will have an exceptionally hard time justifying a decision not to prosecute.”. Attorney General Racine that he was pursuing possible charges.

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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

DECEMBER 27, 2020

In the case of the disastrous press conference by the Trump legal team, I was highly critical of conspiracy theories laid out by Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell without support. First, he is discussing not the lawsuit that I raised against the attorneys making these claims outside of court.

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