SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Cohen – who first met the Lovings when he was just 29 – filed a lawsuit on their behalf, challenging the Virginia law and similar state statutes as violating the 14th Amendment. Virginia , the court did find the statute unconstitutional. She was the first female law professor to receive tenure at Columbia University.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 27, 2024

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg appears to be launching his own school of abstract legal work in the Trump indictment. To achieve that extraordinary goal, he has alleged that the document violations (which expired long ago under the statute of limitations) were committed to hide some other crime. Jonathan Turley is the J.B.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 28, 2024

There is still debate among legal experts as to the specific crime that District Attorney Alvin Bragg is alleging. Trump’s lawyers are defending a former president who is charged under a state misdemeanor which died years ago under the statute of limitations. But what is that second crime?

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 20, 2023

Trump faces serious legal threats in the ongoing Mar-a-Lago investigation. Although it may be politically popular, the case is legally pathetic. Last year, the Federal Election Commission fined the Clinton campaign for funding the Steele dossier as a legal expense. A Section 175 charge would normally be a misdemeanor.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2023

.” The problem, however, is that this is just like the transport of migrants to Martha’s Vineyard in September 2022, which a number of Democratic leaders and legal experts insisted was also a clear case of kidnapping and human trafficking. Newsom previously asked the U.S. To great acclaim, Rachael Rollins, then the U.S.

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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. The litigation over last year’s lettuce recall has only just started due to the statute of limitations. Accordingly, Miller was in violation of a statute in addition to being negligent. __.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 7, 2023

Given Bragg’s failure to even state the key offense allowing him to bring these 34 felonies, Merchan should have scheduled a hearing on the threshold legal questions in two weeks — not schedule all motions to be heard in December. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at The George Washington University.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 15, 2022

The problem is that much in this investigation remains unknown and much of the analysis seems more visceral than legal. If Trump believed the material was declassified and relied on legal advice to resolve any disagreements, then prosecutors would combine an unprecedented legal case with a heavily contested factual record.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 5, 2021

For many legal analysts, President Donald Trump remains a type of criminal Midas figure: everything he says or does turns instantly into a crime. Over the last few years, the media has published a long line of unfounded criminal theories by experts claiming that a tweet or a meeting or a statement established a clear prosecutable case.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 13, 2024

Both cases are classic examples of influence peddling, which has long been a cottage industry in Washington, D.C. Menendez is a pariah in Washington and Hunter is the president’s son. Hunter is not the victim of selective prosecution but the beneficiary of special treatment in the legal system.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 18, 2024

It is the smell of not just selective prosecution but political bias in our legal system. In New York, the legislature changed the statute of limitations to allow Trump to be sued while New York Attorney General Letitia James effectively ran on a pledge of selectively prosecuting him. Jonathan Turley is the J.B. and Maurice C.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 24, 2024

With the Trump trial, Manhattan has become a type of legal wilderness where prosecutors use the legal system to hunt down political rivals and thrill their own supporters. New Yorkers and the media insisted that such selective prosecution was in defense of the “rule of law.” That is not how the law is seen from 9th Avenue.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Trump’s legal team’s belated request for a special master could help bring greater clarity to the raid’s scope and seizures. Yet it will not likely alter the trajectory of the case, which the Department of Justice (DOJ) has repeatedly stressed is an “active criminal investigation.”. Follow him on Twitter @JonathanTurley.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 21, 2024

Judge Merchan seems in open denial of the legal farce playing out in his courtroom. Even more notably, he admitted to the larceny on the stand — after the statute of limitations had passed. Prior witnesses testified that Trump’s payments to Cohen were designated as “legal expenses” not by Trump but by his accounting staff.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 2, 2023

While the actual charges will not be disclosed until the release of the indictment, the underlying theory discussed for months is an effort to revive a dead misdemeanor offense of falsifying business records — years after the statute of limitations expired. And yet Comey is not alone in his praise. That is a good-faith debate.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 22, 2023

Even CNN legal analysts are now calling the handling of the investigation at the Justice Department an “ unholy mess.” Yet the Justice Department reportedly allowed the statute of limitations to run on major crimes, including the tax offenses related to the suspicious payments to Hunter Biden from Ukraine and other countries.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Hunter maintains that “this prosecution is not legally authorized because David Weiss was unlawfully appointed as Special Counsel and Congress has not appropriated funds for the Special Counsel’s investigation or this prosecution.” Hunter has filed a flurry of nine separate motions seeking to dismiss charges against him.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 24, 2024

To accomplish this legal regeneration, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has vaguely referenced a variety of crimes that Trump allegedly was trying to conceal through the business record violations. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University and a practicing criminal defense attorney.

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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

JANUARY 15, 2024

Indeed, in Washington, it was an open joke when Hunter was put on the Amtrak board and later made its vice chair. It appears that nothing is quite so funny as open nepotism in Washington. He was one of Washington’s noble class, a scion of a political dynasty. After all, as his father once said , “no one f**ks with a Biden.”

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 22, 2023

They also would have to deal with a charge brought seven years after the alleged offense, despite a two-year statute of limitations for the underlying misdemeanors (or a five-year period for a felony). It is only the latest reinvention of Michael Cohen – this time from legal heavy to redemptive sinner.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 14, 2023

While there are ambiguities around the meaning of this policy, many legal observers read this rule as kicking in 90 days before an election. A speedy trial under the Sixth Amendment − and a federal statute − would set the case for trial within 70 days. The Trump team would be legally insane not to waive.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 2, 2022

The Washington Post was quick to breathlessly declare that the time had finally come. Given the Posts long record of running professed slam dunk criminal charges against Trump that amounted to nothing, that is hardly a surprise. Judge Carter notes that Eastman still believes that the statute is unconstitutional as written.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 31, 2023

If reports are accurate, he may attempt to “bootstrap” the misdemeanor into a felony (and longer statute of limitations) by alleging an effort to evade federal election charges. Moreover, Bragg could face the same statute of limitation concerns on some of the issues previously investigated by the Justice Department.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Moreover, they testified that the statute of limitations on the most serious charges related to these foreign payments were knowingly allowed to expire by the Justice Department, even though it would have been possible to extend the statute of limitations. First, there are the tax violations.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 15, 2024

Lawyers have been scouring the civil and criminal codes for any basis to sue or prosecute Trump before the upcoming 2024 election. This week will highlight the damage done to New York’s legal system because of this unhinged crusade. The funding was hidden as legal expenses by then-Clinton campaign general counsel Marc Elias.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

The quote came to mind after reading the response of Abbe Lowell, legal counsel for Hunter Biden, to the issuance of subpoenas for Hunter and other family members by the House Oversight Committee. That may now change. If Hunter lies to congressional investigators, he can be charged with a federal crime. That will now change.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 15, 2023

Classified documents have been discovered in Biden’s possession at several locations, hundreds of miles apart, ranging from a prior office in Washington, D.C., Given a suspect who is offering an implausible explanation for potentially criminal conduct, most prosecutors would want to secure a statement on the record.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

I have been a critic of Cohen for years, going back to work as a legal thug for Trump. There is a five-year statute of limitations on lying to Congress. ” When it comes to the legal system, Cohen is ironically true to his word. What he has done to the legal system for decades is truly disgusting.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Here is the column: It seems the subject of Donald Trump , like necessity, is the mother of invention, at least when it comes to legal analysis. From bribery statutes to constitutional provisions, legal experts routinely and unfailingly conclude that Trump or his family can be prosecuted or impeached for an endless array of misdeeds.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 24, 2023

Donald Trump remains Bragg’s political manifest destiny even if there is no legal landfall in sight. Here is the column: It appears that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg will go another week in the legal effort to locate the nation of Kailasa on a map. That theory has been widely ridiculed, even by many on the left.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

While the legal team did raise some credible electoral concerns, I was also critical of Rudy Giuliani’s global communist conspiracy claim at the press conference this week. ” It is same weaponization of the criminal code for political purposes that we have seen in the last four years against Trump.

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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. The Navarro case is just one skirmish in a subpoena war engulfing Washington. These subpoena fights seem to be unfolding with little consideration given to the potential costs, either for Washington institutions or the individuals involved.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 1, 2024

But the Trump prosecution has forced many to confront the undeniable reality of the politicization of our legal system. A chilling return Yet, it is the politicization of the legal system that is the most chilling return to the Adams era. Legal analysts and commentators openly celebrated on MSNBC and CNN — joining many in the streets.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 21, 2023

It is an effort to reanimate a long dead legal claim against Trump, but could reanimate his presidential campaign. There are serious challenges to this prosecution, including an argument that time has expired under the statute of limitations. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and a professor at George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 25, 2024

From the descriptions in the Washington Post, New York Times and virtually every mainstream media outlet, you would think that Cannon was a freak in the courtroom, raving uncontrollably at any passerby. Attorneys be appointed under statute or nominated by the president (and confirmed by the Senate). Jonathan Turley is the J.B.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 4, 2020

The list of the names of people falling within that mandate is a who’s who of Washington from Hillary Clinton to James Comey to. That ignores not just the legal but political significance of the action. All of those columns and speeches contorting the language of the obstruction statute would come back to haunt the Democrats.

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