JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Indeed, after years of denial, some Democratic members and the journalists are now admitting that Hunter Biden clearly broke the law. The Weiss investigation, however, languished for years even as some of us were pointing out that the statute of limitations was about to pass on felonies. were confirmed by those U.S. Attorneys — E.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2021

The company and the Oklahoma justices are right on the law. Public nuisance was originally addressed in England by criminal laws against such offenses as obstructing “the King’s highways.” It has limits, however—most notably the standard statute of limitations, which commonly range from one to four years.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 12, 2024

Even before the deal was cut, Weiss allowed major crimes to expire under the statute of limitations (despite having an agreement to extend that period). He also agreed to a deal that would have avoided any jail time and would have given Hunter an immunity bath that would have drowned the entire criminal code.

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JURIST

MARCH 7, 2023

Washington DC Council Chairman Phil Mendelson Monday sent a letter to Vice President Kamala Harris–in her capacity as president of the US Senate–stating that he is withdrawing a bill that would change DC’s criminal laws. Mendelson discussed the letter during a press conference Monday.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 22, 2023

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. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 22, 2024

The Court found the federal statutes imposing a reasonable temporary limitation on this right. While the result in Washington was not as bad as the unanimous decision in Delaware, it may well have sealed his fate on appeal. Since the Court first recognized the Second Amendment as an individual right in District of Columbia v.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 8, 2024

Many of us have also criticized Weiss for allowing the most serious tax charges to expire despite being able to extend the statute of limitations. He described how the need to neutralize Shokin was raised with Hunter and how “a call to Washington” was made in response.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 12, 2022

Oklahoma that Congress had not clearly disestablished a Creek Nation reservation covering much of eastern Oklahoma, and thus the area remained Native American territory for the purposes of a federal criminal law, eliminating the state’s ability to prosecute crimes there. Haaland , 21-378 , and Brackeen v. Haaland , 21-380.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 21, 2025

Fridays ruling was the most recent of a series of rulings over the past several years in which the court has pushed back against a broader reading of federal criminal laws by prosecutors. Indeed, he added, because misstatements can sometimes be true, it is significant that the statute uses only the word false, which means not true.

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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. But despite my misgivings, that is how the law reads. Looks like the legal professions brief flirtation with principles ended with a quiet ghosting.

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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. He and his co-counsel, Philip Hirschkop, took the case to the Supreme Court. 29, 1941 – Nov.

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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. 1001) as a handy alternative.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

There is a five-year statute of limitations on lying to Congress. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University and a practicing criminal defense attorney. This would seem an embarrassingly easy case for a prosecutor. He is a Fox News contributor.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

According to the Washington Post , Dana Nessel “is conferring with election law experts on whether officials may have violated any state laws prohibiting them from engaging in bribery, perjury and conspiracy.” The fraud statutes, we held in McNally, were “limited in scope to the protection of property rights.”

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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

JUNE 14, 2023

A speedy trial under the Sixth Amendment − and a federal statute − would set the case for trial within 70 days. However, criminal defendants routinely waive the right to a speedy trial because it does not allow them to fully prepare for trial. That would put the trial before the end of August. Follow him on Twitter @JonathanTurley

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 7, 2020

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. Tribe insists the clarity and coherence comes in a later provision referring to how a president “shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed.”

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

The litigation over last year’s lettuce recall has only just started due to the statute of limitations. 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. __.

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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

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

You know, they’re all war hawks when they’re sitting in Washington in a nice building saying, oh, gee, we’ll, let’s send — let’s send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy.” However, it is most clearly not a criminal threat. The statute is below. Here is the statute: 13-1202.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 16, 2021

Those “others” could include a virtual who’s who of Washington politics, and even if they are not indicted, Durham could implicate some of the most powerful figures in politics in his final report, expected in the coming months. For many individuals, the statute of limitations may have passed on any alleged crimes.

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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

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. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University and a practicing criminal defense attorney.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Last month Washington was rocked by the indictment of Michael Sussman, former counsel for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee, for his alleged role in spreading a false Russia conspiracy theory. Joffe , who was the chief cybersecurity officer at Washington tech contractor Neustar Inc.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 18, 2024

The question before the justices is whether Trump can be tried on criminal charges that he conspired to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The court’s answer will determine not only whether Trump’s trial in Washington, D.C., The laws under which Trump has been charged are intended to cover everyone, Smith writes.

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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 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). Department of Justice. Follow him on Twitter @JonathanTurley

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 20, 2023

Yet, there was no hue and cry for this type of prosecution in Washington or New York. The linkage to a federal offense is critical for another reason: Bragg’s office ran out of time to prosecute this as a misdemeanor years ago; the statute of limitations is two years. A Section 175 charge would normally be a misdemeanor.

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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

APRIL 7, 2023

For many weeks, experts on both the left and the right expressed doubts that Bragg could charge Trump with falsifying business records, a misdemeanor with a now-expired two-year statute of limitation. After all, when Bragg ran for office, he was no more specific; he merely promised to bag Trump on some criminal charge.

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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

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

JUNE 5, 2024

At another, he adopted an argument of the National Rifle Association challenging the underlying statute. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at the George Washington University Law School. At one point, he claimed that the government must fulfill a prior dead plea agreement. Jonathan Turley is the J.B.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 25, 2024

During more than two-and-a-half hours of oral argument, some of the court’s conservative justices expressed concern about the prospect that, if former presidents do not have immunity, federal criminal laws could be used to target political opponents. However, the justices left open the prospect that Trump’s trial in Washington, D.C.,

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

If he is found to have lied, he can be charged with a criminal felony. Hunter has benefited from the Justice Department limiting its investigation and inexplicably allowing the statute of limitations to run on key charges. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 21, 2024

Even more notably, he admitted to the larceny on the stand — after the statute of limitations had passed. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School. There will be no dead felony zapped back into life against Cohen, as it was for Trump. In fact, it was hard not to stare.

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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. All of those columns and speeches contorting the language of the obstruction statute would come back to haunt the Democrats. Mueller, III.” Worse yet, the Democrats themselves made the case for him to do so.

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