JonathanTurley

APRIL 2, 2022

Aladin was charged with robbery, which is a second degree felony, and Whettstone and Lawrence were charged with first degree misdemeanor assault. Oberlin maintained in court filings that the son and grandson of the owners of Gibson’s Bakery “violently and unreasonably attacked” an unarmed student, but that is not how the police viewed it.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 12, 2021

” However, the appellate panel corrected noted that such laws are narrowly construed in light of controlling precedent. The criminalization of speech has expanded in countries like France , Germany , and England though hate speech laws and speech regulation. Bartow was charged under Virginia Code § 18.2-416,

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JonathanTurley

JULY 13, 2023

Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Ohio charged Durant with a “federal misdemeanor charge under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act.” The most recent is a student at Bowling Green State University named Whitney Durant, who reportedly had a history of extremist conduct at the school before her arrest.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Cities, too, are enforcing misgendering rules; for example, the New York City Human Rights Law allows for fines if employers, landlords or professionals fail to use a preferred name, pronoun or title. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

A letter signed by 144 constitutional law scholars and circulated Friday characterizes as “legally frivolous” ex-President Donald Trump’s First Amendment -based defense in his impeachment trial slated to start in the US Senate on February 8.

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AUGUST 11, 2022

justice system and reduce mass incarceration, argues a Washington and Lee University law professor. Expansion of the jury trial right would constitute a meaningful structural reform in democratizing criminal justice, at a time when such change is needed to establish the popular legitimacy of the criminal justice system,” writes J.D.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Rittenhouse is facing six charges that range from first-degree homicide to a misdemeanor of being a minor in possession of a dangerous weapon. At this stage, the prosecution may celebrate even a misdemeanor conviction. It is either the product of systemic errors or systemic racism. Prosecution’s bumpy start, and finish.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2023

First, let’s look at the law. The California provision states that kidnapping involves someone who “abducts or takes by force or fraud any person contrary to the law of the place where that act is committed, and brings, sends, or conveys that person within the limits of this state.”

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 17, 2022

She was less specific on the details: “It could be a felony , it could be a misdemeanor, but we know that CPS charge could harm your employment, could harm their education, because nowadays many people do a CPS database search before offering employment.” Notably, both Sen. Tim Kaine (D., Va) and Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D.,

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 24, 2024

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.” That is not how the law is seen from 9th Avenue. It all comes down to the legal map. and Maurice C.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 14, 2021

Here is what I precisely wrote on the Blount and Belknap impeachment in The Executive Function Theory, The Hamilton Affair, And Other Constitutional Mythologies , 77 North Carolina Law Review 1791 (1999): 1. His misdemeanor was to mis-demean himself; to misuse his office for his own speculative ends.” … 7.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 1, 2024

The controversial law came up in oral arguments over the access to the abortion pill in the Supreme Court. That 151-year-old law banned the mailing of materials that were deemed “obscene, lewd, [or] lascivious.” For some of us, this is a painful reminder that the law continues to linger on our books.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 13, 2024

With the end of the Biden Administration in sight, liberal pundits seem to be striving to prove that the only difference between a law-breaker and a law-abiding citizen is the ability to get away with the crime. These calls come in the midst of a counter-constitutional movement led by law professors.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Article 12 of the Michigan Constitution parallels the language of the federal constitution with a slight difference: The house of representatives shall have the sole power of impeaching civil officers for corrupt conduct in office, or for crimes or misdemeanors; but a majority of the members elected shall be necessary to direct an impeachment.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 2, 2023

this would more likely constitute a criminal misdemeanor. In Bowman’s case, the criminal act is captured on videotape, but it is also likely a misdemeanor. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University and a practicing criminal defense attorney. It could be a crime.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 8, 2022

Such a law would threaten political speech and create a chilling effect for those who want to raise such concerns in contested elections. ” He would make such comments a gross misdemeanor subject to incarceration. Such a criminal law would be ripe for abuse and would create a chilling effect that would be positively glacial.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 25, 2023

In the law, the “designated defendant” is often a chump who is given some impressive title, a good salary, and the authority to sign reports or filings for a corporation. He will plead guilty to two minor misdemeanor tax counts and a phantom felony count that will go away in time. Hunter Biden finally is important.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 18, 2021

In my 1999, Duke Law Journal article on impeachment, I wrote that “[t]he Senate majority, however, was correct in its view that impeachments historically extended to former officials, such as Warren Hastings.” It does not change my view of the meaning of high crime or misdemeanors.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 22, 2021

Over twenty years ago, I wrote a law review article explaining how these cases reflect a desire to pass judgment on wrongdoing as well as to secure future disqualification. See Jonathan Turley, Senate Trials and Factional Disputes: Impeachment as a Madisonian Device , 49 Duke Law Journal 1-146 (1999).

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Recently, I wrote about how Laurence Tribe bizarrely claimed that “not long ago” I argued in favor of retroactive trials in reference to my Duke Law Journal article from 21 years ago. See Jonathan Turley, Senate Trials and Factional Disputes: Impeachment as a Madisonian Device, 49 Duke Law Journal 1-146 (1999)(emphasis added).

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 17, 2021

Each senator must decide whether such a trial is constitutional before deciding whether an accused can be retroactively removed for a high crime and misdemeanor. There are good-faith arguments for the constitutional authority to render judgment on such acts and to impose the future disqualification from federal office.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

If there is a single line that sums up the sense of legal impunity in the second Trump impeachment, it is that line from a letter sent by law professors to deny any basis for the former president to challenge his impeachment on free speech grounds. “The First Amendment does not apply in impeachment proceedings.”

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 4, 2021

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Roati. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts. If you know of any cases we have missed, please email us at columbiaclimate@gmail.com.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 2, 2024

While pledging that he will defend the rule of law, President Biden misrepresented what that law is in the aftermath of Trump v. There are also a host of checks and balances on executive authority in our constitutional system. United States. President Biden’s hyper-ventilated response is crushingly ironic.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 16, 2022

This weekend, I was unable to attend our law school 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 law school. I have only missed a couple of graduation in almost 30 years of teaching.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 7, 2020

One of the longest standing debates in constitutional law is dismissed as ill-informed by some of the same experts. After host Lawrence O’Donnell said he believed a president could give himself a pardon, Tribe proclaimed such a view is “incoherent and incompatible” as a constitutional matter. That is the point of a pardon.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 29, 2021

The expectation was that the vote of high crimes and misdemeanors would not be a simply conclusory vote but supported in some form to meet the constitutional standard. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law with George Washington University and served as the last lead counsel during a Senate impeachment trial.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 28, 2021

There would be no impulse-buy removals under the Constitution. Instead, the House of Representatives would have to impeach and the Senate convict (by two-thirds vote) based on “Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes or Misdemeanors.”.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Indeed, the site shows a long-standing anomaly in our criminal law. It would be illegal for Gibson to offer sex for money on the street under our prostitution laws. Watkins, a lawyer for Gibson, supported her claim of a criminal violation, citing the state’s revenge porn law. Engaging in online porn is a lawful act for Gibson.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 10, 2024

The hearings this week may reveal conduct that reaches the level of a high crime and misdemeanor. It is also true, in my opinion, that none of those things amount to high crimes and misdemeanors warranting his impeachment. If Mayorkas is violating federal law, he can be brought to court to enjoin his actions.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 1, 2024

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 Law School. The trial itself was a travesty. Sometimes we have to be forced to see what we have become to better understand who we are.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 26, 2023

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.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

I have long maintained (as I did as a witness in the first Trump impeachment hearing) that the House can legitimately impeach a president on his very last day in office if it has evidence of a high crime and misdemeanor. However, after Jan. The House will present a case long on emotions and short on evidence.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 21, 2021

Even law professors have succumbed to this low-grade form of debate. There would be no impulse-buy removals under the Constitution. Instead, the House of Representatives would have to impeach and the Senate convict (by two-thirds vote) based on “Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes or Misdemeanors.”.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 17, 2021

He pulled Formosus out of his tomb, propped him up in court, and convicted him of variety of violations of canon law. As I said in both the Clinton and Trump impeachment hearings, the House is under a duty to impeach if it believes that a president has committed a high crime and misdemeanor. Follow him on Twitter: @JonathanTurley.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 26, 2022

There would be no impulse-buy removals under the Constitution. Instead, the House of Representatives would have to impeach and the Senate convict (by two-thirds vote) based on “Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes or Misdemeanors.”. However, those judgments have not been deemed high crimes and misdemeanors.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 1, 2023

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.

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