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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, constitutionallaw scholar and legal analyst, is the Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law at The George Washington University LawSchool.
He then used the mailing to have the sisters re-arrested for a federal misdemeanor for the interstate mailing. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at the George Washington University LawSchool. After they defied him and continued to publish, he went to Connecticut to mail copies of the paper to an alias.
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.
After years of investigation, he and the DOJ agreed to a couple of tax misdemeanors, a papered-over gun charge, and no risk of jail time for the president’s son. Whatever interest — or ability — remains to prosecute Hunter Biden, Congress has a separate duty to confirm any high crimes and misdemeanors committed by President Biden.
This weekend, I was unable to attend our lawschool graduation after traveling to Utah to speak to the Federal Bar Association. Susan Wild (D) who represents the 7th District in Pennsylvania and is a distinguished graduate of our lawschool. I have only missed a couple of graduation in almost 30 years of teaching.
The House now has credible, compelling evidence that the president may have committed high crimes and misdemeanors. This is a constitutional process, not just some trash-talking cable show (although, admittedly, it was hard to tell at moments in the hearing). That is how an impeachment inquiry should begin. Because we do not know.
The charges were built on a dead misdemeanor barred with the passage of the statute of limitations. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University LawSchool. The trial itself was a travesty. Sometimes we have to be forced to see what we have become to better understand who we are.
Tribe often shows little patience for the niceties of constitutionallaw or tradition. Even though a federal court and even Democrats admitted that Clinton committed the crime of perjury, Tribe assured Democrats that it fell entirely outside of the constitutional standard of a high crime and misdemeanor.
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