This week I published a column on how the Democratic Party seems to have jettisoned many of its defining values to simply become the anti-Trump party. The best example of that transformation is the automatic opposition to Trump’s decision to pull troops out of Syria...
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Federal Judge Orders Mueller To Turn Over Flynn Material
by Jonathan Turley | Dec 13, 2018 | Featured Articles
In a surprising move, U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan ordered Mueller late Wednesday to turn over all of the government’s documents and “memoranda” related to Flynn’s questioning. This follows a Flynn filing that described an effective trap set by agents who...
DoJ Filing Mistakenly References Sealed Criminal Charges Against Assange
by Jonathan Turley | Nov 16, 2018 | Featured Articles
In a truly astounding misstep, the United States Attorney’s Office in Eastern Virginia filed a document that referenced an indictment against the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange. The filng in an unrelated court filing seems to confirm that charges are pending or...
Pro-Life Students Attacked at Ryerson University in Latest Assault on Free Speech
by Jonathan Turley | Oct 15, 2018 | Featured Articles
We have been following the increasing violence seen on college campuses, particularly directed against conservative and pro-life speakers. The latest incident occurred at Ryerson University in Ontario where a video captured Ryerson Student Gabriela “Gabby” Skwarko...
Hirano’s Hedge: Kavanaugh Not Entitled To Presumption Of Innocence Due To His Ideological Views
by Jonathan Turley | Sep 25, 2018 | Featured Articles
With the addition of a second woman alleging sexual misconduct of Brett Kavanaugh, it is still not clear what factual disputes will have to be addressed before a final confirmation vote occurs in the Senate. Putting aside questions over late timing of the allegations,...
Report: Chapel Hill Police Chief Ordered Officers To Stay Back As Protesters Tore Down Confederate Statue
by Jonathan Turley | Aug 31, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
We recently discussed the latest destruction of a statue in North Carolina and I expressed my skepticism over the inaction of police as well as the absence of significant arrests for a crime committed openly in public while surrounded by officers. Now, WRAL-TV...
Justice Delayed Is Justice: Mueller Fights To Delay Russian Collusion Trial
by Jonathan Turley | May 24, 2018 | Featured Articles
There is an old joke among criminal defense attorneys that “justice delayed is justice,” a twist of the old adage that “justice delayed is justice denied.” The joke reflects that fact that the defense almost always benefits from the passage of time and it is the...
Comey v. Comey: How New Disclosures Could Put Just One Week Between Comey and Perjury
by Jonathan Turley | May 2, 2018 | Featured Articles
Former FBI Director James Comey continues to market his book – and himself – as a lesson in “ethical leadership.” However, the historical record is proving increasingly at odds with Comey’s account and image. After months of spins and swerves by defenders, a consensus...
Happy Anniversary, James Clapper
by Jonathan Turley | Mar 12, 2018 | Featured Articles
Today is an important anniversary for former intelligence chief James Clapper. No it is not his marriage anniversary or conventional milestone. Clapper can celebrate the running out of the statute of limitations on his alleged perjury before Congress — five years and...
Democratic Member Seeks New Impeachment Vote Based On Trump’s Alleged ‘Sh*thole’ Comment
by Jonathan Turley | Jan 19, 2018 | Congress Alert
I have previously written about the endless calls for impeachment from Democratic members for everything from Trump criticizing NFL players to comments made about protesters. The Framers saw the great abuses caused not only by tyranny of nobility, but tyranny of the...
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly Of The Flynn Plea
by Jonathan Turley | Dec 4, 2017 | Featured Articles
Below is my column on the Flynn plea agreement and its potential significance to the Russian investigation. One development is that President Donald Trump is now denying that he ever told Director James Comey to let Flynn go. This follows a highly damaging tweet that...
ABC News Retracts Flynn Bombshell Story
by Jonathan Turley | Dec 2, 2017 | Featured Articles
During the frenzy yesterday over the Flynn plea deal, ABC dropped a bombshell report that Michael Flynn told Special Counsel Bob Mueller that he was prepared to testify that it was Trump who told him to contact the Russians. ABC News later not only retracted that...
‘It Sure Looked Unethical’: Brazile Discloses Deal That Gave Hillary Clinton Control Over DNC Before Primary
by Jonathan Turley | Nov 3, 2017 | Featured Articles
The DNC and Clinton emails released by Wikileaks ultimately exposed a pattern of false statements by Democratic leaders particularly Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Schultz insisted that they were completely neutral in the primary despite every indication to the contrary....
Britain Moves To Criminalize Reading Extremist Material On The Internet
by Jonathan Turley | Oct 5, 2017 | Featured Articles
For years, civil libertarians have warned that Great Britain has been in a free fall from the criminalization of speech to the expansion of the surveillance state. Now the government is pursuing a law that would make the repeated viewing of extremist Internet sites a...
Trump Calls On Police To Be Rougher In Handling Suspects In Speech Denounced By Police Organizations
by Jonathan Turley | Aug 1, 2017 | Featured Articles
Controversial statements by President Donald Trump in the past have often been treated by his supporters as hyperbole or not to be taken strictly or even seriously. However, a speech last Friday had some particularly chilling elements for anyone who believes in the...
Supreme Court Rules Overwhelmingly To Strike Down ‘Disparagement Clause’ Used To Bar Offensive Trademarks
by Jonathan Turley | Jun 20, 2017 | Featured Articles
The U.S. Supreme Court handed down a major victory for free speech on Monday in striking down a provision of the Lanham Act that barred registration for “disparaging” trademarks. The decision came in Matal v. Tam, a case that we have been following. I have previously...
Did Comey Violate Laws In Leaking The Trump Memo?
by Jonathan Turley | Jun 8, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
One of the most interesting new disclosures today in the Comey hearing was the admission by former FBI Director James Comey that he intentionally used a “friend” on the Columbia law faculty to leak his memos to the media. Comey says that he did so to force the...
Trump Fires FBI Director James Comey
by Jonathan Turley | May 9, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
President Trump fired FBI Director James Comey this evening in a surprise move. Various politicians and the media have openly referred to the act as “Nixonian” and “another Saturday Night Massacre.” I have previously stated how the Saturday Day Massacre has been...
Berkeley Cancels Coulter Speech . . . Coulter Vows To Defy University
by Jonathan Turley | Apr 20, 2017 | Featured Articles
We have been discussing the erosion of free speech on our campuses across the country through speech codes and increasingly violent protests. Conservative speakers are now routined denied the opportunity to speak on campuses by university officials who cite security...
Rand Paul Calls For Congress To Demand War Powers Authorization . . . John McCain Says Paul Is ‘Wrong’ and Alone In The Senate
by Jonathan Turley | Apr 9, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
I have been discussing how the Congress is again willfully ignoring its constitutional duty on the declaration of war as our intervention in Syria expands. Democratic leaders like Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer have fallen over each other to praise the attacks even...
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