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MARCH 27, 2021

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JULY 3, 2019

This year was the 69th anniversary of The Florida Bar’s Annual Convention which was held in Boca Raton, Florida at the beautiful Boca Raton Resort and Club. Attendees had a cornucopia of special events and sessions to choose from, including 83 credits worth of CLE programming and a luncheon featuring Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.

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MAY 16, 2023

That law is not just another, so-called “bathroom bill”—legislation intended to prevent transgender people from using restrooms that align with their gender identity; it also reaches “ locker rooms, prisons, domestic violence shelters, and rape crisis centers.” Kansas lawmakers recently overrode their governor’s veto so they could enact S.B.

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OCTOBER 20, 2021

Nikolas Cruz pleaded guilty on Wednesday to 17 counts of murder in relation to the 2018 shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis eventually suspended the head of the responsible department, Scott Israel, over the department’s failures on the day.

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JULY 11, 2017

The 67th Annual Florida Bar Convention returned to Boca Raton, Florida. Like previous years, the beautiful Boca Raton Resort & Club was paired with The Florida Bar’s accoutrements de jure which include informative sessions, numerous networking opportunities, social media sharing, and plenty to talk about.

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MAY 28, 2021

immigration enforcement has largely shifted from the street to jails, resulting in overreach and an increase in incarceration, according to a North Carolina law professor. Although he explained he is a legal U.S. citizen to employees at the jail, he had no way of legally contesting the detainer while in custody.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar made national headlines by opening a criminal investigation into the recent flights arranged by Florida of undocumented migrants to Martha’s Vineyard. Florida has responded with signed waivers by the migrants. Three filed a complaint against the state.

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JUNE 16, 2021

As recounted earlier , in 2008, Tarahrick Terry, then in his early 20s, was arrested in Florida for carrying just under 4 grams of crack cocaine. The crack-cocaine disparity had largely come to symbolize an ineffective and counter-productive war on drugs and a racist criminal law system. He was charged under 21 U.S.C. §

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Hillary Clinton today agreed with MSNBC host Joe Scarborough that Florida Gov. ” There are good-faith reasons to oppose the transportation to migrants to the island, but, as a legal matter, this is legally nonsense. It is a legal term and a serious crime.

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AUGUST 3, 2021

According to a forthcoming paper in the Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy, that would violate the Constitution and several Acts of Congress. Eventually, the Justice Department’s settlement practice faced media, academic and congressional criticism on the ground that it violated federal statutory law and the Constitution.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2023

It is a curious call for a governor to make after he ran ads in Florida calling on people to “join us in California.” California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) chimed in, declaring the flight from Florida might be “ State-sanctioned kidnapping.” First, let’s look at the law. Gavin Newsom (D.,

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JURIST

MARCH 15, 2024

Earlier on Thursday, Cannon heard three and a half hours-worth of arguments from federal prosecutors and Trump’s legal counsel concerning the motion to dismiss. Trump’s counsel challenged several phrases within the criminal statute he is charged under.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

In 2020, the cancelation of parades and the reduction of travel has led to a very different legal profile of holiday mishaps and malfeasance. Of course, no one would confuse a bottle of Chardonnay with a Turkey, but that does not seem to matter under our increasingly absurd copyright and trademark laws. ————————————————————.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Ellison’s parents are Massachusetts Institute of Technology professors; Bankman-Fried’s parents are Stanford Law professors. Joseph Bankman , a longtime Stanford Law School tax professor, was a paid employee of his son and helped promote the company. million house in Old Fort Bay, a gated community in Nassau.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Before this week, Smith found himself on the losing end of the schedule in Florida in his prosecution of Trump for his retention of classified documents. At some point, the mad rush for a March trial will look illogical and gratuitous if key legal issues remain unresolved and pre-trial motions and discovery remain incomplete in February.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 6, 2021

It is also notable that Kent was working with Florida businessman Stephen Alford, who reportedly was convicted of fraud. This includes an express promise that, with the $25 million, his son will be guaranteed a spot on the plane bringing back Levinson and a presidential pardon “alleviating all of this legal issues.”

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 20, 2023

The Georgia indictment is a serious threat for Trump as is the Florida case. It is based on a thin legal theory pushed by a prosecutor determined to charge Trump for something … anything. The charges over the mishandling of classified documents are based on established law and firm evidence.

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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. The impeachment of Senator William Blount of Tennessee may have been the most interesting both factually and legally.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The president’s son, Hunter Biden, is facing federal charges on gun violations under a law that his father has heralded. The Bidens are suffering from legal exposure in actions concerning everything from withholding child support to peddling influence to federal felonies. He is also looking at possible additional charges on taxes.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 3, 2021

It now seems certain that Florida Rep. Like many, I was surprised to watch Tucker Carlson’s interview with Gaetz on the first night of the scandal and hear Gaetz identify by name (and law firm) the lawyer who he claims was extorting him. ” David McGee served for the Department of Justice and has practiced law for 37 years.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 25, 2022

Here is the column: This week, a curious scene will play out in a Florida courtroom. There are also common legal sections that discuss the basis for probable cause. On both the legal and factual background, a redacted affidavit could reveal whether this information was presented fairly and accurately.

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JURIST

AUGUST 1, 2023

The Trump-aligned Save America Leadership political action committee (PAC) spent over $20 million on former President Donald Trump’s legal fees out of its total of about $30 million in spending according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings made public Monday. The filing comes as legal woes continue to mount for Trump.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 30, 2023

They involve challenging questions over the scope of not just laws like the Hatch Act but the duties of federal officials like Meadows. Trump potentially faces four major prosecutions in the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia and New York before the 2024 election. That could place those cases on a different trajectory for months.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 11, 2024

Most recently, in the federal prosecution in Florida, Special Counsel Jack Smith declared that he will not consider himself bound by the Justice Department’s longstanding policy of not bringing charges or holding trials of candidates close to an election. It is not a law.” He then added “Second, the rule does not apply!

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MAY 9, 2024

Democrats have accused Judge Aileen Cannon of being politically compromised, if not conspiratorial, in her delay of the Florida trial over the mishandling of classified documents. He said “I question whether this judge understands the magnitude or the legal import of this trial.” Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.),

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 3, 2020

On the Republican side, Florida attorney Bill Price is facing a more direct and serious investigation than Abrams (who has not been personally implicated in such actions). These groups often have ample legal advisers who are aware of the calls for fraudulent registrations. The date is notable. It was Nov.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 11, 2023

Regarding Mar-a-Lago, the reported inclusion of a charge under the Espionage Act is a bit surprising, given the novel legal issues surrounding the handling of such documents. One of the early issues for the court in Florida will be whether to gag the former president from campaigning on this matter.

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JUNE 14, 2023

It may foreshadow an equally historic trial in the Florida courthouse. While there are ambiguities around the meaning of this policy, many legal observers read this rule as kicking in 90 days before an election. The Trump team would be legally insane not to waive. Those numbers are 90, 70, 12 and 1.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Trump’s greatest threat of conviction remains in Florida, where he is facing federal charges related to his retention of classified documents. Powell pleaded to misdemeanors for a deal that avoids jail time and preserves her ability to resume the practice of law. Jamie Raskin (D-Md).

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 20, 2023

However, false statements to Congress are criminal acts and the allegations have to be taken seriously. That statement by President Joe Biden last year to a Florida mayor seems more than just a boast this week after a whistleblower at the Internal Revenue Service surfaced. Here is the column: “No one f**ks with a Biden.”

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Below is my column in the Hill on the claims that Florida Gov. The claims are legally baseless. Human trafficking — a charge suggested by some law professors — is prosecuted by the Justice Department when you exploit “a person for labor, services, or commercial sex.” Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) ” Gov.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 20, 2021

The case involved the use of a prostitute, a hidden camera, and an effort to intimidate his own brother-in-law but sending the film to his own sister. 45-caliber handgun while flying to Florida on a private jet in 2019 as well as an array of drugs. Most presidents would have burned Kushner’s petition in a profilactic act of cleansing.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 20, 2023

Today’s legal-political sequel, however, may prove to be a bit more controversial. Many people were surprised by the news, since Smith already is pursuing criminal charges in Florida on the mishandling of classified documents and the likely Jan. 6 allegations are far more tenuous legally. 6 speech for criminal charges.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 25, 2024

Below is my column in the New York Post on the vicious attacks being directed at Judge Aileen Cannon as she addresses pre-trial motions in the Florida prosecution of former president Donald Trump. So, yes, not only has the issue of whether the special counsel comports with the structures of constitutional law, that’s been settled.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 27, 2023

I have covered such challenges for years as a legal analyst for CBS, NBC, BBC, and Fox. Unsupported legal claims may be sanctionable in court, but they have not been treated as crimes. Our legal and political dialogue has now been reduced to the substance of a Benetton catalogue. First came the mugshot, then the merchandise.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 25, 2021

Here is the column: There are times when being a law professor ruins everything. Yet the true president at that moment was in Florida: Donald Trump legally would remain in office for ten more minutes, under the 20th Amendment. It will be a fun bit of trivia for constitutional law geeks, but it was also telling.

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