JonathanTurley

APRIL 26, 2024

Below is my column in the New York Post on yesterday’s oral arguments on presidential immunity. If the justices want insight into the implications of denying any immunity, they just need to look north to New York City. Trump’s best attorney proved to be Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

I have previously written about how New York has proven time and time again as the gift that keeps on giving for the National Rifle Association (NRA) and gun-rights groups. New York Democrats continue to pass laws that are virtually guaranteed to be struck down and further reinforce Second Amendment rights.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 16, 2021

We recently discussed the questionable reporting by the New York Times concerning the lead prosecutor, but far more serious questions remain if we are going to reach any resolution on protecting journalists, including the question of what is a journalist. This has brought about radical changes. What is a journalist?

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 8, 2023

Even The New York Times admitted the narrative was meant to “recast the midterm message” and “give [Democrats] a platform for making a broader case about why they deserve to stay in power.” Countervailing evidence or images were consistently excluded and witnesses appeared as virtual props to support high-quality video packages.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

There is nothing unlawful in conveying individuals who are lawfully in the country pending their immigration hearings; the trips are voluntary, and most migrants appear eager to accept free passage to cities like New York or Chicago. ” However, it is the misrepresentation of the criminal law that is most concerning.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 3, 2023

The testimony put the controversial demands of New York Attorney General James into sharp relief. Those words from Alice in Wonderland seem the only apt description of the case unfolding in the New York courtroom of Justice Arthur F. That may be a common practice in New York real estate, but it is not a good practice.

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JULY 13, 2022

A shorter, edited version of this column ran in the New York Post ). There is a Fox News report that it was able to confirm an abortion involving a ten-year-old girl in Indiana but could not confirm the other claims. Fox is also reporting that a HIPPA complaint has been filed against Dr.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The Duke of York is arguing that Giuffre was too old at the time of the alleged sexual acts to use the New York Child Victims Act (CVA) to “revive” her claims now. Prince Andrew is arguing that there is an inherent conflict under state law with these claims in light of the general consent law in New York.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 25, 2021

In New York Times v. the Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press. Likewise, areas like defamation have been limited by the First Amendment.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2023

Moreover, it is not clear how transporting migrants who entered the country illegally to another state is a violation of law. New York City recently sent migrants to other cities without their permission or prior notice; Democratic leaders in El Paso, Texas, have also arranged such transports.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 24, 2024

Here is the column: In 1976, Saul Steinburg’s hilarious “View of the World from 9th Avenue” was published on the cover of the New Yorker. The map showed Manhattan occupying most of the known world with wilderness on the other side of the Hudson River between New York and San Francisco. In Gonzalez v.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Below is my column in the New York Post on the second release of the “Twitter Files.” ” The new material exposes the company’s system of censorship and suppression of disfavored views. The documents shatter prior statements of Twitter, including statements made to Congress.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 29, 2023

I have previously raised doubts over some of these laws, which are based on questionable factual claims and distinctions between weapons. Indeed, President Biden has made dubious constitutional and historical claims about the Second Amendment and AR-15s.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 9, 2024

In a statement to The New York Times , Cheney immediately used Trump’s statement to keep the narrative alive: This was the worst breach of our Constitution by any president in our nations history. As I recently wrote , some are suggesting up to thousands of such pardons.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Below is my column in the New York Post on reports that Special Counsel Robert Hur has finally interviewed President Joe Biden on allegations that he removed and retained classified material going back to his time as a United States senator. The problem facing Hur could be what to do if he actually finds evidence of a crime.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 30, 2023

Trump potentially faces four major prosecutions in the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia and New York before the 2024 election. Trump and his co-defendants must stand trial for these allegations, but criminal cases are supposed to be tests of evidence, not of endurance or exposure. In Washington, U.S.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Ads running before the election cited Dr. Fauci in saying that opening schools was putting the lives of children at risk for political reasons: Recently, Mayor diBlasio reversed his order to close New York schools after criticism over the lack of scientific support for the policy.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 13, 2021

The standard for defamation for public figures and officials in the United States is the product of a decision decades ago in New York Times v. The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press. Such an action would be highly unlikely to succeed.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 14, 2021

The more threatening cases concern allegations of bank and tax fraud, including cases out of New York. I believe such a prosecution would collapse at trial or upon appeal. The legal system should be allowed to run its course. There is also the election violation issue that was raised in the Michael Cohen plea bargain.

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JANUARY 8, 2022

Such a criminal law would be ripe for abuse and would create a chilling effect that would be positively glacial. We have seen other Democratic leaders use the criminal process in similarly reckless fashions. This country has a long history of election fraud from Tammany Hall in New York to the Daley machine in Chicago.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 30, 2023

Trump will have a far better jury pool than he would face in New York or, potentially, Atlanta. 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

OCTOBER 29, 2023

At the same time, Judge Arthur Engoron has repeatedly fined Trump for his public statements about the New York fraud case. 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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NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Moreover, it comes as the former president faces multiple criminal investigations over everything from his handling of classified documents, to allegations of falsifying the value of New York properties. There is also the not-so-small matter of a Justice Department investigation into the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 24, 2022

According to The New York Times, the hearings were framed with the intent to use the select committee largely to “recast the midterm message” and “give [Democrats] a platform for making a broader case about why they deserve to stay in power.” Liz Cheney’s (R-Wyo.) 6 — an assertion that even some Trump supporters might endorse.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 26, 2022

The “Twitter Files” released by Twitter’s new owner, Elon Musk, show as many as 80 agents targeting social-media posters for censorship on the site. This included alleged briefings that Twitter officials said was the reason they spiked the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story before the 2020 election.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Even in his freshman year, Democratic New York Rep. There are so many criminal laws that do criminalize speech, and so the notion that the president of the United States somehow has a First Amendment right to be protected by the government for his speech doesn’t make any sense.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 25, 2024

The New York courts have upheld the order. There has been much discussion of the gag order imposed on Trump by Justice Juan Merchan who is controlling not only the travel but the speech of the leading presidential candidate from his small Manhattan courtroom.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 15, 2023

Like the New York indictment, a Georgia indictment would not be subject to a presidential pardon. That does not mean that there may not be evidence of knowing fraud or criminal wrongdoing. However, another anemic filing like the one in New York will only fuel the deep political divisions and unrest in the country.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 5, 2021

New York prosecutor Carey Dunne’s words were repeated like a mantra after this week’s indictment of the Trump Organization and its financial chief, Allen Weisselberg. and New York Attorney General Letitia James paraded triumphantly in front of hundreds of cameras with a handcuffed Weisselberg in their wake.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 17, 2023

(None of the presidential candidates could pardon Trump for state charges in New York or, potentially, in Georgia.) 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

AUGUST 9, 2023

Notably, the New York Times has reported that Biden has had his own Thomas Becket moments in telling aides that he wanted Trump indicted and criticizing the Attorney General Merrick Garland for the delay. Now, according to special counsel Smith, such knowing lies can be criminal matters, at least in the case of Donald Trump.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

New York Times columnist (and my former classmate at The University of Chicago) David Brooks said this week that the corruption scandal “merits an inquiry. The investigation and charging of Hunter Biden has, thus far, been strikingly surgical in avoiding this pattern of concealment.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 7, 2022

” the New York Times recently declared “ Every Day is Now Jan. Indeed, those measures were used previously in Lafayette Park when the White House security was almost breached by rioters. Yet, there remains a determined effort to keep the “insurrection” narrative “preserved.”

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Weissmann is now a MSNBC analyst who teaches at a New York University. Weissmann was responsible for the overextension of an obstruction provision in a jury instruction that led the Supreme Court to reverse the conviction in the Arthur Andersen case in 2005.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 16, 2023

After the 2020 election, he challenged one New York election by claiming that “there is reason to believe that voting tabulation machines misread hundreds if not thousands of valid votes as undervotes, and that these tabulation machine errors disproportionately affected [the Democrat].”

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 25, 2024

Below is my column in the New York Post on the vicious attacks being directed at Judge Aileen Cannon as she addresses pre-trial motions in the Florida prosecution of former president Donald Trump. So, yes, not only has the issue of whether the special counsel comports with the structures of constitutional law, that’s been settled.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 22, 2021

Indeed, anyone driving in New York or New Jersey can hear it used as a noun, verb, adjective, adverb, and even a preposition. .” The signs were purchased by Dick, 54, from commercial dealers. Her lawyer, Michael Campagna, insists that the f-word no longer has a sexual connotation and is simply a common colloquialism.

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