JonathanTurley

JUNE 23, 2023

What is particularly chilling is that the establishment in Washington is not even trying to rebut the widespread view of a two-tiered system of justice. That’s right, Hunter is actually commendable for, after over five years, pleading to two misdemeanors with no likely jail time. No Biden worth the name would ever let that happen.

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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. They largely ignore that the misdemeanor is expired. Bragg caved.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 13, 2024

In a case based on a dead misdemeanor and a rapidly falling heart rate on the manufactured felony, one can understand the appeal of witnesses who can speak for the dead. He has already allowed every effort to bring this dead misdemeanor back to life. Jonathan Turley is the J.B. and Maurice C.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 22, 2023

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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JonathanTurley

MARCH 4, 2024

Now, the Biden administration has arrested Baker on four misdemeanor charges linked to his entry into the Capitol on that day. J-schools” now encourage students to leave “neutrality behind” and push “solidarity [as] ‘a commitment to social justice that translates into action.’” She was acquitted. That is not the case for Baker.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 6, 2023

Yes, the man who has routinely knocked down felony crimes to misdemeanors — or dismissals — actually suggested that he had no alternative but to charge Trump with 34 counts of falsifying business records. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and a professor at George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 25, 2023

He will plead guilty to two minor misdemeanor tax counts and a phantom felony count that will go away in time. He will declare himself guilty so the media and the political establishment can declare the scandal to be a closed matter: Nothing more to see here, other than a plea to a couple misdemeanors.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 15, 2024

No one seriously believes that Alvin Bragg would have spent this time and money to prosecute what is ordinarily a state misdemeanor if the defendant was anyone other than Trump. Here is the column: The famous Roman philosopher and orator Marcus Tullius Cicero once said, “The more laws, the less justice.”

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JonathanTurley

MAY 3, 2023

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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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 13, 2023

Yet many in the Democratic Party and the media have insisted on criminal charges in the Mar-a-Lago case , including barring Trump from office for even a misdemeanor conviction on unlawful possession. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Powell pleaded to misdemeanors for a deal that avoids jail time and preserves her ability to resume the practice of law. Powell’s statement will also present challenges to Special Counsel Jack Smith who has a parallel case in Washington, D.C.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 8, 2024

You have a case based on two dead misdemeanors shocked back into life by a still mysterious theory of an undefined crime. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School. In comparison, Daniels may be the only authentic part of the entire case in New York v.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 24, 2023

First, it expired as a chargeable misdemeanor after two years — and that was roughly five years ago. Second, it was a mere misdemeanor that could be brushed off by Trump even if they succeeded. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and a professor at George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 16, 2022

This weekend, I was unable to attend our law school graduation after traveling to Utah to speak to the Federal Bar Association. Susan Wild (D) who represents the 7th District in Pennsylvania and is a distinguished graduate of our law school. I have only missed a couple of graduation in almost 30 years of teaching.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 21, 2023

He is reportedly going to convert a misdemeanor for falsifying financial records into a prosecution of a federal crime. The limit is two years for a misdemeanor and, even if he can convert this into a felony, it is not clear if he can meet the longer five-year limitation. Bragg is combining parts from both state and federal codes.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 26, 2023

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.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 18, 2023

As first reported by the Washington Examiner, Swalwell used his official position to reserve the space for the press conference and lent his assistance to Hunter in refusing to appear before the House committees investigating his father, President Biden. Where Bowman’s offense was treated as a misdemeanor, Hunter’s offense is a felony.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 1, 2024

The charges were built on a dead misdemeanor barred with the passage of the statute of limitations. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School. The trial itself was a travesty. Sometimes we have to be forced to see what we have become to better understand who we are.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 1, 2023

The House now has credible, compelling evidence that the president may have committed high crimes and misdemeanors. Indeed, according to a poll from ABC News and the Washington Post this week, 58 percent believe that President Biden is being “held accountable under the law like any other president” in this inquiry.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Even though a federal court and even Democrats admitted that Clinton committed the crime of perjury, Tribe assured Democrats that it fell entirely outside of the constitutional standard of a high crime and misdemeanor. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 3, 2024

With no federal prosecution, Bragg decided to use an unprecedented criminal theory not only to zap a dead misdemeanor into life (after the expiration of the statute of limitation) but to allow him to try violations of not only federal election law but also federal taxation violations. Jonathan Turley is the J.B. and Maurice C.

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