JonathanTurley

APRIL 2, 2023

Yet now Comey is heralding the effort of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg , who campaigned on a pledge of bagging Trump for some unspecified crime. Despite the widespread criticism of Bragg for reducing charges for an array of felonies by Manhattan criminals, he spent months working to convert a misdemeanor into a felony.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 13, 2024

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is losing even CNN hosts and legal analysts. In a case based on a dead misdemeanor and a rapidly falling heart rate on the manufactured felony, one can understand the appeal of witnesses who can speak for the dead. He has already allowed every effort to bring this dead misdemeanor back to life.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 6, 2023

Warning: it has no legally nutritional content… Here is the column: “We cannot and will not normalize serious criminal conduct,” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said of his indictment of former president Donald Trump. At some point, Bragg will have to state the actual criminal basis for these 34 counts.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 25, 2023

He will plead guilty to two minor misdemeanor tax counts and a phantom felony count that will go away in time. He will declare himself guilty so the media and the political establishment can declare the scandal to be a closed matter: Nothing more to see here, other than a plea to a couple misdemeanors.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 23, 2023

Despite the release of evidence by the House Oversight Committee showing potentially millions of transfers to Biden family members from foreign sources, Attorney General Merrick Garland has blocked any appointment of a special counsel. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

The interviews could magnify the difficulties for both Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and Special Counsel Jack Smith in their respective prosecutions. Some of their depositions have been leaked, much to the dismay of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 13, 2023

Biden may have to take responsibility for this debacle, but he faces a potential criminal charge. While Attorney General Merrick Garland has again refused to appoint a special counsel, any acknowledgment of Biden’s knowledge or interaction with the documents could have serious legal ramifications.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 15, 2024

I have long been critical of the case as a clear example of the weaponization of the criminal justice system. No one seriously believes that Alvin Bragg would have spent this time and money to prosecute what is ordinarily a state misdemeanor if the defendant was anyone other than Trump. However, two prosecutors, Carey R.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 8, 2024

Here is the column: Before the start of the Manhattan prosecution of former president Donald Trump, I characterized the case of District Attorney Alvin Bragg as based on a type of obscenity standard. New Yorkers elected a state attorney general, Letitia James, who ran on the pledge to bag Trump on something — without specifying any crime.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 24, 2023

Here is the column: It appears that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg will go another week in the legal effort to locate the nation of Kailasa on a map. First, it expired as a chargeable misdemeanor after two years — and that was roughly five years ago. So Bragg continues to stare at the map to find his Kailasa.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 21, 2023

The scene from the 1931 movie “Frankenstein” came to mind this week as Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg prepared an indictment of former President Donald Trump. He is reportedly going to convert a misdemeanor for falsifying financial records into a prosecution of a federal crime. Here is the column: “It’s moving. It’s alive.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 1, 2024

Adding to these concerns is the movement of the third-highest official in the Biden Justice Department to the staff of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg to build the case against Trump. The charges were built on a dead misdemeanor barred with the passage of the statute of limitations. The trial itself was a travesty.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 18, 2023

6 investigation, Biden declared : “I hope that the committee goes after them and holds them accountable criminally.” Under Attorney General Merrick Garland, Bannon went from a failure to appear to an actual indictment in just two months. Where Bowman’s offense was treated as a misdemeanor, Hunter’s offense is a felony.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 3, 2024

Attorney Harry Litman told MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace that it was “majestic day” and “a day to celebrate.” The Charges A leading threshold issue will be the decision to allow Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg to effectively try Trump for violations of federal law. Jonathan Turley is the J.B. and Maurice C.

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