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No Joke: Supreme Court Case Could Take a Big Bite Out of the First Amendment

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He was charged with (and later acquitted of) a felony under an Ohio law prohibiting the use of a computer to “disrupt” or “interrupt” police functions. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. Another pending case is Novak v.

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Hunter Biden’s 7% Solution: Using Addiction to Excuse Corruption

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Rather than prosecuting Hunter Biden for a felony in lying on a federal gun form, it is sending him into a diversion program due to an addiction that he says he was able to break years ago. The Justice Department also appears to have latched on to the 7% solution.

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Florida Moves to Ban Pro-Palestinian Student Group from Campuses

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Nevertheless, Rodrigues declared “it is a felony under Florida law to ‘knowingly provide material support … to a designated foreign terrorist organization.’” He quoted the national group’s declaration that “Palestinian students in exile are PART of this movement, not in solidarity with this movement.”

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California Dreaming: Newsom’s Kidnapping Claim Against DeSantis is Long on Politics and Short on the Law

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It reportedly includes claims of felony and misdemeanor charges of unlawful restraint, but didn’t name individual suspects. 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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The Neutron Prosecutor: How Special Counsel Hur May Prove the Ultimate Punchline in Washington

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I have long disagreed with the Justice Department policy as without foundation in the Constitution. There is no question that the best course in dealing with a felonious president is to first remove the president from office through the impeachment process and then indict the former president in the wake of the Senate conviction.

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The Land that Law Forgot: The Supreme Court and the New York Legal Wasteland

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Through various contortions, Bragg converted a dead misdemeanor case into 34 felonies in an unprecedented prosecution. New Yorkers and the media insisted that such selective prosecution was in defense of the “rule of law.” Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at the George Washington University School of Law.

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No, the J6 Committee Should Not “Go to Jail”

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Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University and the author of The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage. Members, however, are protected from prosecution for expressing their opinions or advancing legislative measures.

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