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.” Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at the George Washington University School of Law.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 1, 2024

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 Law School. After they defied him and continued to publish, he went to Connecticut to mail copies of the paper to an alias.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 13, 2024

There are also a host of checks and balances on executive authority in our constitutional system. This includes judicial intervention to prevent violations of the law as well as impeachment for high crimes and misdemeanors. What is interesting is not just what is stated but implied. All would be done in defense of democracy.

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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.

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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

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 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. It does not change my view of the meaning of high crimes or misdemeanors. I have become more textualist in that sense, but I am neither an originalist nor a strict textualist.

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AUGUST 4, 2021

Washington Supreme Court Said Climate Activist Was Entitled to Present Necessity Defense Based on Evidence that Legal Alternatives Were Not “Truly Reasonable”. State of Washington ex rel. If you know of any cases we have missed, please email us at columbiaclimate@gmail.com. FEATURED CASE. Haskell v. 98719-0 (Wash. July 15, 2021).

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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

MAY 16, 2022

While a minority to be sure, George Washington does have Republican, libertarian, and conservative members as well as those who subscribe to pro-life positions. Wild surprised many in the political tenor of her remarks, despite her other positive and inspiring points. ” I repeatedly made the same point in my oral testimony.

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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.

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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

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. In my view, all of those things are manifestly true. That is a slippery slope that we would be wise to avoid.

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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

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. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University and a member of USA TODAY’s Board of Contributors.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 21, 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.”. However, those judgments have not been deemed high crimes and misdemeanors.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 17, 2021

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. He would then be more popular than ever with many citizens eager to defy the Washington establishment. There is another path.

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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

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

Tribe often shows little patience for the niceties of constitutional law 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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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. She has stressed that she and her husband keep their professional lives separate as do many such couples in Washington. Donald Trump was impeached not once but twice.

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