The Latest Breaking News from Jonathan Turley

Fake electors may provide easiest path for DOJ to charge Trump

As Congressional hearings into Jan. 6 pause for an August break, the focus turns to the U.S. Justice Department, which must decide whether to prosecute former President Donald Trump.

Tribune News Service · Jul 23, 2022

Texas sues health secretary over emergency abortion guidance

The state of Texas is suing the federal government after the Biden administration said earlier this week that federal rules require hospitals to provide abortions if the procedure is necessary to save a mother’s life

The Independent UK · Jul 14, 2022

‘Breathtaking’: Fox News analyst says latest Jan 6 hearing ‘should shock everyone’

‘It’s almost like this is Dr Strangelove and the president is saying there is no fighting in the war room. It was just a bizarre moment’

The Independent UK · Jul 13, 2022

Prof. Jonathan Turley on Blacklisting Artists for Their Political Positions

A very good post, I think, here; a brief excerpt: "It is a great artistic loss for the Met and for opera." Those words from the Metropolitan Opera Manager Peter Gelb makes it sound like soprano Anna Netrebko has died or lost her voice in some accident. In reality, Netrebko…

Reason · Mar 7, 2022

Prof. Jonathan Turley (GW) on the Trump Civil Incitement Opinion

From today's item in The Hill: When Trump's lawyers said his language was largely indistinguishable from that of many Democrats like Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), Mehta chided them for playing "a game of what-aboutism." That "what-aboutism," however, is precisely the point. The selective imposition of liability for speech is the…

Reason · Feb 20, 2022

AOC mocks Fox analyst for comparing Canadian trucker convoy to Martin Luther King

The comparison between the late civil rights activist and the ‘freedom convoy’ backfired on social media

The Independent UK · Feb 16, 2022