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Sullivan & Cromwell Joins Trump Defense As Age Of Obsequiousness Begins!

Above The Law

(Photographer: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post/Bloomberg via Getty Images) For years, Donald Trump was radioactive in elite legal circles. No white-shoe law firm would touch him. This marks a turning point for Trump trading in parking garage lawyer Alina Habba for one of the most prestigious firms in the world.

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Democratic Governor Calls For Criminalizing “Lying” About Election Results

JonathanTurley

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. What does that even mean?

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Police Suggest Possible Charges for Those Who Filmed Rape on Train

JonathanTurley

Generally there is no duty to rescue or to call police under the common law. For example, Washington state allows for the charging of a misdemeanor. The law covers violent crimes, sexual assault, and assault of a child. Perhaps some of our Pennsylvania lawyers could help out.

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Who is Lying? Merrick Garland or the Whistleblowers?

JonathanTurley

Influence peddling may be lawful, but it is also corrupt. Indeed, it is the favorite form of corruption in Washington and a virtual family legacy of the Bidens. It would explain why Hunter’s lawyer cannot recall ever being asked about the laptop.

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Garland’s Theater of The Absurd: Why the Hunter Biden Scandal is No Longer a Laughing Matter

JonathanTurley

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. He answered “no” and the deal quickly fell apart, with Hunter Biden’s lawyer finally saying exasperatedly, “ Just rip it up.”

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Susanna Gibson Alleges that Critics Committed a “Sex Crime” In Exposing Her Alleged Streaming of Sex Acts

JonathanTurley

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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TURKEY TORTS (2020)

JonathanTurley

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. __. LEXIS 11 (2001).

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