JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Scruggs forked over $100,000 to James Biden when he was seeking to reinforce support for the massive tobacco legislation and Joe Biden was viewed as skeptical on what some viewed as a windfall for trial lawyers. Scruggs admitted to the Washington Post that “I probably wouldn’t have hired [James Biden] if he wasn’t the senator’s brother.”

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JANUARY 17, 2022

We help lawyers make evidence-based decisions about the venues they choose and the arguments they make by focusing on the jurisprudence of the judges and courts they interact with. Target customer: Medium to large firms, particularly those in the 100-200 range of Am Law’s rankings. Founded: 9/8/2018.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 3, 2022

Jackson Women’s Health Organization has rocked the Court and Washington. The Washington Post did run some leaks the court’s internal deliberations. If the culprit is a lawyer, disbarment would seem a virtual certainty. The leaking of a draft opinion in Dobbs v. The 98-page draft opinion is dated Feb.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 16, 2022

The Washington Post yesterday ran a column by MSNBC Legal Analyst and Georgetown Law Professor Paul Butler that argued that the incarceration of actor Jussie Smollett for 150 days is a miscarriage of justice fueled by racism. Special investigator Dan Webb shredded that claim, which has found a new life in the Washington Post.

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JANUARY 14, 2022

When he began his job as an assistant coach at Bremerton High School, a public school in Washington state, he initially prayed alone after games, but over time some of his players – and eventually a majority of the team – joined him.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 22, 2024

Below is my column in The Hill on the expanding role of Kevin Morris and the expanding number of roles that he now claims to be playing from lawyer to producer to donor to friend. It is increasingly hard to determine what Morris was at any given moment: Democratic donor, lawyer, friend. Here is the column: “Who was the real me?

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 31, 2021

continues to rage in Washington as Gaetz alleges a conspiracy to extort $25 million and the New York Times has reported an investigation into his traveling across state lines with a minor for sex. The other party is reportedly former Justice Department lawyer David McGee, currently with the law firm Beggs & Lane.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 19, 2021

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. Indeed, I know of no law requiring an intervention in a violent crime scene anywhere in the country.

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LegalTalkNetwork

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

From ABA President-Elect Judy Perry Martinez updating us on gun violence, lawyer wellness, and legal education to author Bill Burnett sharing his wisdom on “Designing Your Life” as well as detailed discussions on jury selection, socio-economic bias in the courts, ABA Blueprint, gatherings of federal judges, human trafficking, Tinker v.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 26, 2023

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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JonathanTurley

JUNE 27, 2023

million were sent to a law firm and another firm associated with Hunter Biden. His lawyer, Chris Clark, first insisted that the release of the messages “are not only irresponsible, they are illegal.” This past weekend, there were reports that, after the threatening WhatsApp message was sent, two payments totaling $5.1

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 19, 2021

Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University and a member of USA TODAY’s Board of Contributors. But if there is violence after the verdict, it will be far worse if the public is not aware upfront of the serious challenges in proving this case.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 12, 2024

Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School. If Delaware made any impression on Hunter, it is that there are real costs to allowing your appetite to exceed your limitations.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 4, 2022

Weiss has called a long line of witnesses before a grand jury, and there is growing expectation of criminal charges against Hunter Biden. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. Nothing concentrates the mind as much as a looming indictment.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The heated dispute between the Biden Administration and the State of Virginia just took a curious turn after Virginia lawyers released support for the effort to remove alleged noncitizens from the voting rolls ahead of the presidential election. The longest line is likely the lawyers waiting to get inside. Call it the Mark of Kaine.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 22, 2024

The New York Post has created a stir in Washington with its report that a whistleblower claims that the CIA reportedly blocked federal investigators from interviewing Kevin Morris, the entertainment lawyer who has subsidized the expenses and bought the art of Hunter Biden.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Indeed, the now-sober Hunter has repeatedly acknowledged that while his family name may have led to some of his past positions, he is a lawyer with experience that was useful in work like serving on the board of Ukrainian energy conglomerate Burisma Holdings.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 22, 2023

He answered “no” and the deal quickly fell apart, with Hunter Biden’s lawyer finally saying exasperatedly, “ Just rip it up.” New emails reveal that Hunter Biden’s lawyers told the prosecutors that, if there were serious charges, it would be President Biden in the spotlight. The language was anything but routine.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 9, 2022

Here is the column: Nearly 70 years ago, a little-known lawyer named Joseph Welch famously confronted Sen. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. Joseph McCarthy (D-Wis.) in defense of a young man hounded over alleged un-American views.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

None of this explains the logic of Hunter’s criminal defense strategy. A legal one-man game of chicken is certainly engrossing to watch, but leaves most lawyers wincing rather than flinching as the spectacle unfolds.

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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

APRIL 7, 2025

They were largely affluent citizens, including journalists, professors, lawyers, and others who shredded existing laws and destroyed property. One 20-something communications professional in Washington explained If a billionaire can steal from me, I can scrape a little off the top, too.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Lawyer Marc Elias has been much in the news lately for his role in funding the Steele dossier, which is a subject of the investigation of Special Counsel John Durham. million paid to the campaign’s law firm. Sitting beside him was Elias, who reportedly said nothing to correct the misleading information given to Congress.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2020

A government lawyer who argued at the Supreme Court more than anyone else in the 20th century. Boynton went on to spend his career as a civil rights lawyer (even though his home state of Alabama refused to give him a law license for six years because of his involvement in the Supreme Court case). Bernard Sol Cohen.

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Above The Law

JANUARY 29, 2025

(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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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The question is whether Durham really wants to indict just the figurative tail if he can get the whole dog — a question that now may weigh heavily on a number of Washington figures, just as it did following Durham’s indictment in September of Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 10, 2022

Indeed, it has proven gut-wrenching in the accounts of lawyers and staff trying to combat baseless theories and to protect the constitutional process. That is an extraordinary offer for a criminal defendant. No defense lawyer (including this one) would support such an appearance before a criminal trial.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

According to the Washington Post , Judge Kelly initially was not inclined to release Jensen because “he wanted to be part of a revolution.” Even Jensen’s lawyer called his interest in right-wing sites an “addiction.” Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 21, 2025

The Justice Department is the hardest of silos in Washington to reform. Unlike most departments, it is largely homogenous, with thousands of lawyers who share professional and cultural ties. Later, it was the Justice Department again that pursued a no-holds-barred effort to convict Trump before the election.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The indictments of John Durham has shaken up Washington recently as he laid out the critical role played by Clinton campaign associates in the creation of the Russian collusion scandal, including the inclusion of debunked but widely reported allegations. Strzok responded “Rgr. I couldn’t raise [REDACTED] earlier. Pls keep it open for now.”.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 20, 2022

Here is the column: The criminal trial of Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann began this week with a telling warning from prosecutors to the D.C. was told by a Sussmann defense lawyer that neither Clinton nor Trump were on trial and then asked if she could be impartial. Durham contends that Sussmann was no rogue lawyer.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 23, 2022

The mere mention of Clinton’s name sent shockwaves through Washington. Even when long-sought documents in Whitewater were discovered outside of the family quarters and bearing Hillary Clinton’s fingerprints, Washington quickly moved on.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 6, 2021

Kent confirmed the request made to Gaetz’ father, Don Gaetz, and the involvement of former DOJ lawyer David McGee, who served as the Levinson family’s attorney. That brings us to the document obtained by the Washington Examiner. He also admitted that he told Don Gaetz how the money would “generate good will” for his son.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Throughout his career, the disbarred lawyer has found powerful clients who valued his reputation for supporting any side that offered the biggest payback. Now he is accused of yet another lie under oath and the question is whether his current benefactors will again protect him from a criminal charge. He is a Fox News contributor.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

We have been discussing the campaign of The Lincoln Project and others to harass and abuse lawyers who represent the Trump campaign or other parties bringing election challenges. ” It is same weaponization of the criminal code for political purposes that we have seen in the last four years against Trump. In Kelly v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 26, 2022

During law school, Kruger spent one summer as an intern for the U.S. After graduating from Yale in 2001, she spent a year working as an associate at Jenner & Block in Washington, D.C., Kruger returned to Washington in 2007 to take a job as an assistant to the U.S. before going to clerk for Judge David Tatel of the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Smith then pushed hard for a pre-election trial in the January 6th case in Washington where he seemed to have a supportive judge in Judge Tanya Chutkan who shoehorned the start just before the Super Tuesday elections. Despite Smith’s pushing for a pre-election trial, his structuring of the charges undermined that schedule.

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