Sgt. William Kelly, the second highest-ranking official in the Norfolk Police Department’s internal affairs division, has been fired for making an anonymous donation to the defense fund for Kyle Rittenhouse. The donation (revealed after a security breach of the...
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Wisconsin Supreme Court Finds Wisconsin Governor Acted Unlawfully On Mask Mandate
by Jonathan Turley | Apr 2, 2021 | Featured Articles
The Wisconsin Supreme Court blocked Democratic Gov. Tony Evers from issuing any new public health emergency orders to mandate face masks. In a 4-3 decision that broke along ideological lines, the conservative majority found that Evers lacked authority for his order....
Behold Your Afghan Air Fleet: How U.S. Paid $549 Million For Defective Cargo Planes and Then Sold Them For $40,257 Of Scrap Metal
by Jonathan Turley | Mar 6, 2021 | Featured Articles
If you want to know why waste and conflicts of interests are so prevalent in the United States, you need to look no further than the recent report of he Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) on the so-called G222 program. I wrote about this...
Sweden Moves To Protect Academic Freedom After Professor Quits Covid Research Due To Harassment
by Jonathan Turley | Mar 3, 2021 | Featured Articles
We have been discussing erosion of free speech and academic freedom protections at colleges and universities around the United States. Most faculty have been conspicuously silent as their colleagues are attacked, suspended, or even fired for taking opposing views on...
New Comey Email Raises Additional Questions About His Use and Defense of The Steele Dossier
by Jonathan Turley | Feb 16, 2021 | Featured Articles
There is a new and intriguing document related to the Russian investigation out this week. Justthenews has released a previously undisclosed email from former FBI Director James Comey that raises additional questions about his role in using the now discredited Steele...
A Return To Rage: Schumer and Pelosi Attack Members Who Voted To Acquit As Political Cowards and Shills
by Jonathan Turley | Feb 14, 2021 | Featured Articles
There was a palpable sense of relief in Washington as the Trump trial came to a chaotic but final end. The verdict is in so now the vilification can begin. Both Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Speaker Nancy Pelosi immediately weaponized the verdict and demonized...
Did The Democrats ‘Tank’ The Second Trump Trial?
by Jonathan Turley | Feb 13, 2021 | Featured Articles
Below is my column in USA Today on the lack of a strategy by the House to secure conviction in the trial of former President Donald Trump. As I have previously noted, the House managers did an excellent job in their presentations and many of the videotapes rekindled...
Reckless Rhetoric Is A Reckless Standard For An Impeachment Trial
by Jonathan Turley | Feb 11, 2021 | Featured Articles
Below is my column in the Hill on how the second Trump impeachment could become a trial over reckless rhetoric in America. The House managers may be playing into that very danger by selecting some managers who have been criticized in the past for their own over-heated...
Raskin: Trump’s Decision Not To Testify May Be Cited As Evidence Of His Guilt
by Jonathan Turley | Feb 5, 2021 | Featured Articles
Over the last four years, we have seen an alarming trend of law professors and legal experts discarding constitutional and due process commitments to support theories for the prosecution or impeachment of Donald Trump or his family. Legal experts who long defended...
Pelosi Declares That The ‘Enemy Is Within The House of Representatives’ In Call For More Security
by Jonathan Turley | Jan 29, 2021 | Featured Articles
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been attacking Republicans members as traitors in a continuation of the reckless rhetoric from the last four years on both sides. Despite a desire for greater unity from voters, Pelosi has sought to capitalize on rather than close those...
‘Aid and Comfort’ To the Enemy: Speaker Pelosi Ramps Up Attacks On Republican Colleagues Amidst Calls For Expulsion
by Jonathan Turley | Jan 23, 2021 | Featured Articles
Speaker Nancy Pelosi ramped up the attacks on members of her own house this week, accusing them of giving “aid and comfort” to those who want to destroy the nation. The comments came after Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., denied a public accusation by Rep. Steve Cohen,...
Trust In The Media Hits An All-Time Low In New Polling
by Jonathan Turley | Jan 22, 2021 | Featured Articles
We have previously discussed how American journalism has been destroyed by years of openly partisan coverage in an age of echo journalism. Not surprisingly, the public has lost faith in what was once the leading nation in terms of journalistic practices and ethics. A...
Professor Calls For The Elimination of the Republican Party and Purging ‘Nazified’ People From Congress, Universities, and ‘Regular Jobs’
by Jonathan Turley | Jan 21, 2021 | Featured Articles
The media has been airing discussion of hosts and leading figures like Katie Couric on “deprogramming ” Trump supporters or treating Trump supporters as a cult, including a CNN interview with an actual “cult expert.” Since that would include over 70 million Trump...
‘Revoke Their Degrees’: Harvard Faculty and Students Seek Revocation Of Degrees For Trump Officials and Allies
by Jonathan Turley | Jan 16, 2021 | Featured Articles
There is a building campaign at Harvard to rescind the degrees of Trump officials and allies including White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), and Representative Dan Crenshaw (R-TX). This is not the only such effort to retaliate against...
Ron Paul Posts Criticism of Censorship on Social Media Shortly Before Facebook Blocks
by Jonathan Turley | Jan 12, 2021 | Featured Articles
We have been discussing the chilling crackdown on free speech that has been building for years in the United States. This effort has accelerated in the aftermath of the Capitol riot including the shutdown sites like Parler. Now former Texas congressman Ron Paul, 85,...
I Hate Federal Commissions, But Americans Need One To Look Into The 2020 Election
by Jonathan Turley | Jan 8, 2021 | Featured Articles
Below is my column in USA Today on the need for a federal commission on the 2020 election. While I opposed the challenge and the call for the ten-day commission, I do believe that a real commission is warranted. Indeed, the violence Wednesday only further shows the...
‘Treason Is A Matter Of Dates’: Democrats Denounce Republicans For The Same Challenge They Previously Made To Republican Presidents
by Jonathan Turley | Jan 2, 2021 | Featured Articles
Napoleon once said “treason is a matter of dates.” The Democrats seem to have taken Napoleon’s words to heart in declaring Republicans traitors or anti-Democratic in their planned challenge the certification of electoral votes next week. Both the media and Democratic...
YouTube Declares It Will Censor Videos Questioning Biden’s Victory
by Jonathan Turley | Dec 10, 2020 | Featured Articles
We have have been discussing how writers, editors, commentators, and academics have embraced rising calls for censorship and speech controls, including President-elect Joe Biden and his key advisers. The erosion of free speech has been radically accelerated by the Big...
Democratic Member Seeks To Disbar Two Dozen Lawyers Challenging Election Results
by Jonathan Turley | Nov 23, 2020 | Featured Articles
We have been discussing the campaign of harassment and threats against Republican lawyers to get them to drop election challenges. New Jersey Democratic Rep. Bill Pascrell expanded that campaign this week with a malicious and frivolous demand for New York and other...
'All Speech Is Not Equal': Biden Taps Anti-Free Speech Figure For Transition Lead On Media Agency
by Jonathan Turley | Nov 17, 2020 | Featured Articles
Richard StengelFor those of us who have been critical of the growing anti-free speech movement in the Democratic Party, the Biden transition team just took an ominous turn. The New York Post reports that Biden tapped Richard Stengel to take the “team lead” position on...
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