Attorney Misdemeanor Statute Washington 
JonathanTurley
MAY 19, 2021
Here is what the provision states: “Any person who, by his advertisement, ridicules or holds up to contempt any person or class of persons, on account of the creed, religion, color, denomination, nationality or race of such person or class of persons, shall be guilty of a class D misdemeanor.” Free speech demands bright lines.
JonathanTurley
MAY 12, 2021
” The language of the statute in my view is unconstitutional due to its sweeping criminalization of any “curse or abuse” that could “provoke a breach of the peace.” Bartow was charged under Virginia Code § 18.2-416, Winston , 199 S.E.2d 2d 724, 726 (Va. Free speech demands bright lines.
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JURIST
OCTOBER 20, 2021
So many people said, ‘Man, if I was in a revolution, I would be in Washington.’ Bannon refused, through communications made by his attorney, to produce the requested documents. The contempt of Congress statute, 2 U.S.C. § Well, this is your time in history.
SCOTUSBlog
JUNE 28, 2024
Bannon’s attorney asserted that the information that the committee sought was protected by executive privilege – that is, the president’s power to keep information about the workings of the executive branch confidential – and that he could not override that privilege. Three weeks later, a grand jury in Washington, D.C.,
JonathanTurley
MAY 28, 2024
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.”
JonathanTurley
MAY 27, 2024
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. and Maurice C.
JonathanTurley
MARCH 20, 2023
I have been critical of the indictment, which is reportedly based on a highly dubious use of a New York misdemeanor charge to revise a long dormant federal election law charge. Yet, there was no hue and cry for this type of prosecution in Washington or New York. A Section 175 charge would normally be a misdemeanor.
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