JonathanTurley

JANUARY 8, 2022

The same concerns were raised this week after Washington Gov. 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. What does that even mean? 6th insurrection.”

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 25, 2023

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.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 17, 2021

On its face, the planned impeachment trial is at odds with the language of the Constitution, which expressly states that removal of a president is the primary purpose of such a trial. He will be a citizen and would be best served legally to forgo the trial entirely as extraconstitutional and invalid.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

However, I have also written for years on my own evolution on constitutional interpretation toward greater textualist and formalism over the last three decades. This response in the form of an impeachment may be more important than a legal response in the form of a prosecution. This is only a question of the jurisdiction of the Senate.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 26, 2023

The debacle in the Hunter Biden investigation has left most objective legal analysts in disbelief, with one CNN analyst calling it an “ unholy mess.” Weiss cut a deal with Hunter’s legal team that was widely derided. For House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), What followed has bordered on the burlesque.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 29, 2021

There are cases which, even if legally brought, contain errors so significant they must be dismissed as unsound on prudential rather than constitutional grounds. 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.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Here is the column: It seems the subject of Donald Trump , like necessity, is the mother of invention, at least when it comes to legal analysis. From bribery statutes to constitutional provisions, legal experts routinely and unfailingly conclude that Trump or his family can be prosecuted or impeached for an endless array of misdeeds.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 16, 2022

Wild chose the commencement address to launch into a personal attack that accused me of being an example of the use of law for “wrongful ends.” ” She falsely accused me of changing a critical legal point in my testimony in the Clinton and Trump impeachment hearings on whether impeachable conduct must be indictable crimes.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

The Democratic nominee was exposed recently by the Washington Post in streaming sex acts on a site called Chaturbate for money. Watkins, a lawyer for Gibson, supported her claim of a criminal violation, citing the state’s revenge porn law. Indeed, even the service provider itself is protected under the law.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 1, 2024

But the Trump prosecution has forced many to confront the undeniable reality of the politicization of our legal system. A chilling return Yet, it is the politicization of the legal system that is the most chilling return to the Adams era. Legal analysts and commentators openly celebrated on MSNBC and CNN — joining many in the streets.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 27, 2022

” In modern American politics, it often seems like the only tool is impeachment and every controversy instantly becomes a high crime and misdemeanor. There is nothing in these messages that put Ginni Thomas in legal peril. Nevertheless, media and legal experts are clamoring for impeachment. Kamala Harris and Sen.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 21, 2021

Even law professors have succumbed to this low-grade form of debate. Figures like Harvard Professor Laurence Tribe now regularly engage in profane and personal attacks when they disagree on political or legal issues. There would be no impulse-buy removals under the Constitution.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

While legal eagles will be analyzing every move, what citizens really need is an Philadelphia Eagles fan to understand what is unfolding. That point was reached this season when Pederson decided not to tie the game against Washington in the third quarter with a field goal and instead put Nate Sudfeld in the game over Jalen Hurts.

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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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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

There was a time when legal disagreements could be passionate but not personal. Now even law deans have called Supreme Court justices “hacks” to the delight of their followers. I was singled out on this occasion for Tribe’s latest personal attack because I voiced a legal opinion different from his own.

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