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Jonathan Turley Brings Flair For Blatantly Misstating Basic Legal Concepts To The Trump Indictment

(Photo by Bonnie Cash-Pool/Getty Images)The latest indictment of Donald Trump and his cronies alleges a widespread criminal enterprise to overturn the legitimate results of the Georgia election. And w...

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As Trump Howls About First Amendment, Court Issues Protective Order In Trump Jan 6 Case

(Photo by Evan Vucci-Pool/Getty Images)Donald Trump scored a partial victory in his battle to try his case in the press as Judge Tanya Chutkan imposed a less restrictive protective order than the one ...

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Trump Judge Aileen Cannon Under Fire In Yet Another Criminal Trial

[photo1]You guys: Aileen Cannon might not be particularly good at this whole "judge" thing. And she only has the rest of her life to figure it out. You remember she burst onto the national stage in a ...

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The Day After The January 6 Verdict

(Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)Everyone's talking about the indictment handed down against Donald Trump for his various conspiracies to hang on to power after he lost the 2020 election.We don't ye...

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Trump Gets Carroll Judge To Brand Him A Digital Rapist. Again.

(Photo by Evan Vucci-Pool/Getty Images)As Donald Trump's legal troubles mount, his many civil issues have not gone away. In addition to the civil prosecution by the New York Attorney General, Trump ha...

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Trump Plans To Request Change Of Venue To ... West Virginia

(Photo by Ali Shaker/VOA)In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been ...

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Trump Telegraphs Plans To Blame His Lawyers For Coup Plot

[photo1]It was always going to be this way.Donald Trump was always going to wind up blaming the lawyers.He previewed this legal strategy the other day on his crappy Twitter knockoff site when he rebuk...

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Judge Cannon Sets Trump Docs Case For May Trial Date

[photo1]This morning Judge Aileen Cannon set a May 20, 2024 trial date in Donald Trump's documents case.In the scheduling order, she continued her recent practice of being ... basically normal! This i...

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Since When Should Happy Meals Burn A Little Kid's Legs?

(Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)Happy Meals are marketed to kids. From the cute little box to the toy inside, any parent who's tried to road trip with a kid will attest to how successful McDona...

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Do Some Lawyers Suffer From Moral Injury?

[photo1]One of my favorite podcasts (other than Above the Law's "Thinking Like A Lawyer," of course) is "The Daily," which is a production of the New York Times. Each weekday, "The Daily" covers a sto...

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Illegality Aside, Chemerinsky's Perjury Joke Was Just That -- A Joke

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky (public domain photo via Wikimedia)Future is one of my favorite musicians. Erwin Chemerinsky is one of my favorite constitutional law experts. You could say they live their live...

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DOJ Says Trump's Rants About E. Jean Carroll Were Not Part Of His Job. Trump Responds With Further Ranting.

(Photo by Ali Shaker/VOA)Yesterday Donald Trump had a bad day in court. Today he woke up and made sure his lawyers also had a bad day.Those two sentences could have been written virtually any day in t...

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Trump Loses Yet Another Round To E. Jean Carroll

(Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)Thanks to the vicissitudes of the judicial wheel in the Southern District of Florida, Donald Trump has landed himself back in the warm embrace of Judge Aileen Cann...

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Should Judges And Lawyers Sometimes Violate Legal Ethics To Promote The Public Good?

[photo1]Since I did not have much else to do during the pandemic besides running, I started listening to podcasts for the first time a few years ago. I love listening to podcasts while I exercise, and...

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Trump Screams Into The Ether As Indictment Drumbeat Gets Louder In Georgia

(Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)Yesterday Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis gave the strongest indication yet that she intends to bring indictments in the 2020 election interference case...

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Trump Claims Magical Declassification Powers As Archives Discloses Contradictory Docs To Special Counsel

(Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)"I had every right to under the Presidential Records Act. You have the Presidential Records Act. I was there and I took what I took and it gets declassified," Donald...

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Holding The Infringer's Cup

[photo1]Last week, we took a look on these pages at some things we could learn from a pretrial order in a hotly contested patent dispute between two consumer products giants, Sonos and Google. This we...

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Fulton DA Responds To Trump Motion To Magically Disappear Grand Jury Report

(by Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia)In March, Donald Trump asked the Superior Court of Fulton County, Georgia to vaporize the special purpose grand jury (SPGJ) report on interference in the 2020 election....

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Eight Unexpected Ways Adults Play Too Rough With Kids

Children, especially those between the ages of 4 to 6, love to play rough. Not only can it provide an outlet for their endless energy, but there's also a purpose behind it: According to the University...

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