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Could The Arrest of FBI Agent Undermine The Whitmer Kidnapping Case?

JonathanTurley

However, Trask was also key to the arrest of men in the alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. 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. Writing for the 5-4 majority, Justice Bryon White ruled that.

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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2020

SCOTUSBlog

Once I got home and re-entered my own real world, the fact that I could talk about the Supreme Court on ABC News meant absolutely zero. Aimee Stephens had worked as a funeral director at a Michigan funeral home for six years when, in 2013, she announced to her colleagues that she was transgender and would begin living as a woman.

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MSNBC Legal Analyst Declares Trump Could Be Charged With Manslaughter

JonathanTurley

Now, MSNBC legal analyst and Michigan Law Professor Barbara McQuade has gone one better. Indeed, such a use of the speech would contradict controlling Supreme Court precedent. After the riot, DC Attorney General Karl Racine announced that he was considering arresting Trump, Donald Trump Jr., In Brandenburg v.

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A Case of Hope Over Experience: The J6 Referral Falls Short of a Credible Criminal Case

JonathanTurley

Experts like Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe have previously declared Trump’s felonies were shown “without any doubt, beyond a reasonable doubt, beyond any doubt, and the crimes are obvious.” That speech appears protected by the First Amendment and existing Supreme Court precedent. At 4:17 p.m., In Brandenburg v.