JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2023

California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) chimed in, declaring the flight from Florida might be “ State-sanctioned kidnapping.” Justice Department to investigate whether the flights are violations of the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act — a ridiculous legal suggestion.

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AUGUST 24, 2021

On April 13, 2018, in the Circuit Court of Arlington County, Virginia, Commonwealth’s Attorney Theo Stamos staked her position on sentencing for a man convicted of a misdemeanor and a low-level felony. But, around the same time, American legal reformers started looking between states for inspiration, which helped the U.S.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Fifty years ago, when I was working for the Legal Aid Society, I was struck by the vitality of the courtroom. This was a story that you yourself talked about in a 2019 speech at New York Law School. When Attorney General Janet Reno and I and others first started this work, there was very little discussion about reentry.

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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. He insisted that Trump could not be allowed to use “fictitious legal services” for political purposes.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 13, 2024

With a dubious legal theory, the testimony has only magnified the criticism of the prosecution as parading sensational rather than material evidence before the jury and the public. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is losing even CNN hosts and legal analysts. The cross examination was devastating. and Maurice C.

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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

AUGUST 22, 2023

Even CNN legal analysts are now calling the handling of the investigation at the Justice Department an “ unholy mess.” ” The responsibility for this theater of the absurd is Attorney General Merrick Garland who has again shown a lack of strength and leadership at a key moment for his department. Why would that be?

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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

The effort to “resolve Hunter” has been a concerted effort by the political and legal establishment. That’s right, Hunter is actually commendable for, after over five years, pleading to two misdemeanors with no likely jail time. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 13, 2023

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. 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. Jamie Raskin (D-Md).

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 15, 2024

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. Here is the column: The famous Roman philosopher and orator Marcus Tullius Cicero once said, “The more laws, the less justice.” Nevertheless, it worked.

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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

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

MARCH 24, 2023

Donald Trump remains Bragg’s political manifest destiny even if there is no legal landfall in sight. 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. So Bragg continues to stare at the map to find his Kailasa.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 21, 2023

It is an effort to reanimate a long dead legal claim against Trump, but could reanimate his presidential campaign. 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. Here is the column: “It’s moving. It’s alive.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 1, 2024

But the Trump prosecution has forced many to confront the undeniable reality of the politicization of our legal system. A chilling return Yet, it is the politicization of the legal system that is the most chilling return to the Adams era. Legal analysts and commentators openly celebrated on MSNBC and CNN — joining many in the streets.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 18, 2023

It was an act of legal self-immolation as the president’s son engaged in flagrant contempt of Congress, a federal crime. 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

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

There was a time when legal disagreements could be passionate but not personal. Now even law deans have called Supreme Court justices “hacks” to the delight of their followers. I was singled out on this occasion for Tribe’s latest personal attack because I voiced a legal opinion different from his own.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 1, 2023

The House now has credible, compelling evidence that the president may have committed high crimes and misdemeanors. 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

JUNE 3, 2024

At that point, it became a legal canned hunt. Attorney Harry Litman told MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace that it was “majestic day” and “a day to celebrate.” To his credit, CNN legal analyst Elie Honig has previously said that this case was legally dubious, uniquely targeted Trump and could not succeed outside of an anti-Trump district.

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