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Rittenhouse Goes To Jury After Case Collapses in Court

JonathanTurley

Rittenhouse is facing six charges that range from first-degree homicide to a misdemeanor of being a minor in possession of a dangerous weapon. At this stage, the prosecution may celebrate even a misdemeanor conviction. It is either the product of systemic errors or systemic racism. Prosecution’s bumpy start, and finish.

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California Dreaming: Newsom’s Kidnapping Claim Against DeSantis is Long on Politics and Short on the Law

JonathanTurley

It reportedly includes claims of felony and misdemeanor charges of unlawful restraint, but didn’t name individual suspects. Jonathan Turley, an attorney, constitutional law scholar and legal analyst, is the Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law at The George Washington University Law School.

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D.C. Circuit Judge Panel Uses Pauline Newman Oral Argument To Flesh Out Advisory Opinion On Comatose Judges

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(Photo by Bill O’Leary/The Washington Post via Getty Images) Can Pauline Newman get a damned break? ” Judge Millett spoke conclusively, as though judicial impeachment requires the same “High Crimes and Misdemeanors” standard, but there’s at least a colorable argument that this isn’t actually the case.

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Blinken’s Immaculate Conception Defense: Why Things Are Likely to Get Worse for the Secretary of State

JonathanTurley

When I testified at the impeachment hearing, I maintained that it clearly does meet the standard of a “high crime and misdemeanor.” Jonathan Turley is an attorney and a professor at George Washington University Law School. In my view, it did not matter the subject matter.

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The Return of Anthony Comstock: The Abortion Pill Case Raises a Law With A Dark and Troubling Past

JonathanTurley

He then used the mailing to have the sisters re-arrested for a federal misdemeanor for the interstate mailing. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at the George Washington University Law School. After they defied him and continued to publish, he went to Connecticut to mail copies of the paper to an alias.

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

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Why the House Has No Alternative to an Impeachment Inquiry into President Biden

JonathanTurley

After years of investigation, he and the DOJ agreed to a couple of tax misdemeanors, a papered-over gun charge, and no risk of jail time for the president’s son. Whatever interest — or ability — remains to prosecute Hunter Biden, Congress has a separate duty to confirm any high crimes and misdemeanors committed by President Biden.