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
JUNE 9, 2023
California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) chimed in, declaring the flight from Florida might be “ State-sanctioned kidnapping.” Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, announced that she was taking a look, “long and hard,” at potential charges. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.)
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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.
JonathanTurley
AUGUST 22, 2023
” 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. Now it appears that the controversial “sweetheart deal” was not the first choice of US Attorney David Weiss. Why would that be?
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. Attorney David Weiss was a growing concern for many observers. For House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.),
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.,
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