JonathanTurley

MAY 30, 2024

Merchan did nothing as Steinglass told the jury that Hope Hicks cried in court because she knew that she had destroyed Trump’s defense (Hicks has never explained why she cried). It was only when Steinglass repeatedly instructed the jury on the law that Merchan finally sustained objections, at the end of his closing arguments.

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JUNE 9, 2023

Many migrants are released soon after capture, including some without a hearing date or court dates that are years in the future. Moreover, it is not clear how transporting migrants who entered the country illegally to another state is a violation of law. The reason is that these claims are made for cable news, not courts of law.

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MAY 27, 2024

Bragg has achieved the same effect by regenerating a dead misdemeanor on falsifying business records as 34 felony counts. In the instructions, the court will tell the jurors that payments cannot be campaign contributions if they would have been made anyway regardless of the campaign. They also need to point out other gaps.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 11, 2024

That included the case of Daniel Goodwyn , who pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor count of entering and remaining in a restricted building. Walton of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia decided that he would use the case to regulate what Goodwyn was reading and communicating with a chilling probation order.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

faces a misdemeanor simple assault charge for allegedly intentionally blowing on people. With the Trump impeachment unfolding in Washington, we will awaited similar reports of Thanksgiving dinner conversations that go terribly wrong–after their argument led to patio furniture being flung at each other. __. For example, in Weirum v.

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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.” This week in the Supreme Court, a glimpse of the legal landscape outside of Manhattan came more sharply into view.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 23, 2023

What is particularly chilling is that the establishment in Washington is not even trying to rebut the widespread view of a two-tiered system of justice. That’s right, Hunter is actually commendable for, after over five years, pleading to two misdemeanors with no likely jail time. It takes a true Biden to do that. Not a Navy, of course.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 8, 2022

The same concerns were raised this week after Washington Gov. Jay Inslee called for the criminalization of “lies” about election results. Such a law would threaten political speech and create a chilling effect for those who want to raise such concerns in contested elections. In United States v. 6th insurrection.”

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MAY 24, 2024

Now it will be up to 12 New Yorkers to do what neither the court nor the prosecutors were willing to do: adhere to the rule of law regardless of the identity of the defendant. It is the ultimate jury instruction not from the court but from the community. Yet, one figure stepped forward to assure the public that all was well.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 22, 2023

He actually was planning to let Hunter walk without even a misdemeanor charge despite massive unpaid taxes, gun violations, and work as an unregistered foreign agent, among other alleged crimes. Then the wheels fell off in court and left everyone in a bit of a muddle. There was no way now to kill the case.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 4, 2024

Now, the Biden administration has arrested Baker on four misdemeanor charges linked to his entry into the Capitol on that day. former Washington Post executive editor, and Andrew Heyward, former CBS News president, reaffirmed this shift. Before Baker’s arrest, Washington media was already facing criticisms over double standards.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

For instance, Sidney Powell stated that Trump clearly believed that he had won the election when he was challenging the results in the courts and Congress. Powell pleaded to misdemeanors for a deal that avoids jail time and preserves her ability to resume the practice of law.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 14, 2023

After a period of briefing before the trial court, appellate courts could delay the matter for months depending on whether they expedite review. People seem content that the case confirmed either a pattern of Trump consistently flouting the law or the Justice Department unrelentingly targeting Trump.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 22, 2023

Here is the column: If former President Donald Trump is indicted, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg would be prosecuting a case that has been widely criticized as long on politics and short on the law. Department of Justice. Follow him on Twitter @JonathanTurley

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 15, 2024

I have long been critical of the case as a clear example of the weaponization of the criminal justice system. No one seriously believes that Alvin Bragg would have spent this time and money to prosecute what is ordinarily a state misdemeanor if the defendant was anyone other than Trump. However, two prosecutors, Carey R.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 8, 2024

In a 1984 pornography case, Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart wrote “I shall not today attempt further to define [obscenity]. That, of course, ignores the standing objection of the defense to Daniels even appearing, and specific objections to the broad scope allowed by the court. But I know it when I see it.”

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Even theories denied by the Supreme Court are seen as valid when used against Trump. One of the longest standing debates in constitutional law is dismissed as ill-informed by some of the same experts. I maintained that perjury is a “high crime and misdemeanor” regardless of its subject. That is the point of a pardon.

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MAY 1, 2023

A court will now have to decide whether this child can call herself a Biden and whether her father can reduce his level of financial support. Here is the column: This week, Hunter Biden’s defense team traveled to Delaware seeking an update on the federal criminal investigation that has dragged on for almost five years.

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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. 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.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 6, 2022

Below is my column in The Hill on the subpoena war raging in Washington as the Jan. Adam Schiff who wanted to see more criminal charges out of the Biden Administration. The Navarro case is just one skirmish in a subpoena war engulfing Washington. 6th Committee prepares for its first public hearings this week.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 21, 2023

He is reportedly going to convert a misdemeanor for falsifying financial records into a prosecution of a federal crime. The limit is two years for a misdemeanor and, even if he can convert this into a felony, it is not clear if he can meet the longer five-year limitation. Bragg is combining parts from both state and federal codes.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 1, 2024

Here is the column: After years of trying — in the words of the judge — “to get the damned rascal in this court,” it was a conviction that many welcomed. But those words were not from Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan, and the conviction was not that of former President Donald Trump. The trial itself was a travesty.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 18, 2023

As first reported by the Washington Examiner, Swalwell used his official position to reserve the space for the press conference and lent his assistance to Hunter in refusing to appear before the House committees investigating his father, President Biden. Swalwell has long courted controversy. It was a valid subpoena. and Maurice C.

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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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NOVEMBER 21, 2022

All of the three main players — Trump, Attorney General Merrick Garland, and Special Counsel Jack Smith — will face immediate challenges in the legal arms race unfolding in Washington. The Supreme Court unanimously overturned that conviction as having stretched the law beyond its breaking point.

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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. There is another path.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 3, 2024

So the attention will now shift to the appellate courts. While it may be tough going initially in the New York court system for the former president, this case could well end up in the federal system and the United States Supreme Court. The court largely used standard instructions in a case that was anything but standard.

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