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...
Jonathan Turley
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...
Protesters Succeed In Preventing Conservative Speakers From Appearing At The University of California At Davis
by Jonathan Turley | Jan 15, 2017 | Featured Articles
We have been discussing the largely successful efforts by students and faculty to prevent certain conservative speakers like Milo Yiannopoulos from being able to speak on campuses. The latest such example is University of California at Davis where protesters succeeded...
Washington Post Issues Correction To ‘Fake News’ Story
by Jonathan Turley | Dec 9, 2016 | Featured Articles
The Washington Post has been under fire for its publication of an article entitled, “Russian propaganda effort helped spread ‘fake news’ during election, experts say.” The article by Craig Timberg relied on a controversial website called PropOrNot, which published...
Pelosi’s House Rival Denounced As Sexist For Opposing ‘The Most Accomplished Woman in Congress’
by Jonathan Turley | Nov 22, 2016 | Congress Alert
We have previously discussed how Democrats have rallied around their leaders despite the failure to secure the White House or the Senate. Democratic leaders engineered the primary selection of Hillary Clinton despite polls showing that voters did not want an...
Comey Sends Letter To Congress Citing New Evidence (and An Investigation) In The Clinton Email Scandal
by Jonathan Turley | Oct 28, 2016 | Featured Articles
There is a major news development with the release of a letter from FBI Director James B. Comey that the Bureau has decided that new evidence requires further investigation into the Clinton emails. It was a surprising change just days before the election. After all,...
CNN: It Is Illegal For Voters To Possess Wikileaks Material
by Jonathan Turley | Oct 18, 2016 | Featured Articles
There was an interesting segment on CNN last week where CNN anchor Chris Cuomo reminds viewers for it is illegal for them to “possess” Wikileaks material and that, as a result, they will have to rely on the media to tell them what is in these documents. The legal...
Newly Released FBI Records Raise Questions of Intentional Destruction of Evidence By Clinton Contractor
by Jonathan Turley | Sep 7, 2016 | Featured Articles
One of the most troubling aspects of the recently released documents from the FBI is a timeline established for when Clinton staffers used BleachBit to try to eradicate emails and prevent them from ever being recovered. It appears that staff may have deleted the email...
EU Chief Blasts The Very Notion Of National Borders In The Latest Call For Globalism
by Jonathan Turley | Aug 25, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
For years, European Union advocates denied allegations that they were trying to erase national borders and create a single country with a shared military. Then recently proposals for a single military emerged — just before Britain left the EU. One of the most...
Trump: Americans May Be Tried In Military Tribunals Under His Administration
by Jonathan Turley | Aug 12, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
I have long been a critic of military tribunals as constitutionally dubious and practically ineffectual institutions. The tribunals at Guantanamo Bay have resulted in few actual trials and undermined the standing of the United States as a nation committed to the rule...
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