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

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After growing up in the segregated South, Drew Days attended Yale Law School, worked as a civil rights lawyer alongside Martin Luther King, Jr., Before becoming clerk of the Supreme Court, Stevas was the clerk of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals and worked as an assistant U.S. Drew Saunders Days III.

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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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Trump’s Surprise Witness: Rep. Waters Becomes A Possible Witness Against Her Own Lawsuit

JonathanTurley

Moreover, they would fail under a lower standard of proof than the “beyond a reasonable doubt” standard in criminal law. Such a result would eviscerate the claim that Trump was guilty of criminal incitement in his speech. He should be criminally indicted for inciting insurrection against our democracy.”

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“Without any Doubt, Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, Beyond any Doubt”: Tribe Declares Trump Committed Attempted Murder

JonathanTurley

You don’t have to go to law school to know that there’s something seriously criminal about that. After the riot, District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine announced that he was considering arresting Trump, Donald Trump Jr., There are other crimes that have been proven. Rudy Giuliani and U.S.

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Profile of a potential nominee: Leondra Kruger

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After Harvard, Kruger went to Yale Law School, where she was the editor in chief of the Yale Law Journal – the first Black woman to hold that job. During law school, Kruger spent one summer as an intern for the U.S. attorney in Los Angeles and a second summer as a summer associate at Munger, Tolles & Olson.

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Why Has Trump Not Been Charged With Criminal Incitement?

JonathanTurley

Said CNN legal analyst Elie Honig: “As a prosecutor I’d gladly show a jury Trump’s own inflammatory statements and argue they cross the line to criminality.” Richard Ashby Wilson, associate law school dean at the University of Connecticut, said “Trump crossed the Rubicon and incited a mob to attack the U.S.

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

JonathanTurley

Trump lost the 2020 presidential vote in the District of Columbia, receiving a mere 5.4% That means finding a Trump supporter in the district’s jury pool is only slightly more likely than finding a snow leopard. Smith would want to go to Washington in this instance. of the vote.