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New York is moving to end a requirement that lawschool graduates report past arrests and police interactions short of convictions in order to become practicing attorneys, following a new report finding that excessive screening discourages people of color from applying to lawschool and the bar, reports Bloomberg News.
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There is still debate among legal experts as to the specific crime that District Attorney Alvin Bragg is alleging. Trump’s lawyers are defending a former president who is charged under a state misdemeanor which died years ago under the statute of limitations. It wasn’t hush money. It was consideration.”
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.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg appears to be launching his own school of abstract legal work in the Trump indictment. For many of us, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has created a new school of abstract law where there is no need for objective meaning. The key is to avoid any objective meaning.
When I testified at the impeachment hearing, I maintained that it clearly does meet the standard of a “high crime and misdemeanor.” Jonathan Turley is an attorney and a professor at George Washington University LawSchool. In my view, it did not matter the subject matter.
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 LawSchool.
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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 LawSchool.
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.
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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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. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at the George Washington University LawSchool. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.)
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.
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 LawSchool. Because we do not know.
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