Having just listened to a passing reference to the Durham report followed by a long segment on Martha Stewart making the cover of Sport's Illustrated, the report appears destined for the same treatment as the Biden corruption report. jonathanturley.org/2023/05/15/ame…
...Just in case any reporters simply find the 300 page report daunting, here are a few take aways. (1) There was never a foundation for the launching of the Russian collusion investigation that occupied most of the Trump presidency...
(2) Salacious reports like the Moscow hotel tape appear to be entirely invented by the Steele team funded by the Clinton campaign...
(3) the Steele dossier was not only funded and pushed by the Clinton campaign, but General Counsel Marc Elias pushed the media campaign (and later refused to cooperate voluntarily with investigators)...
(4) DOJ and FBI officials violated core departmental standards, including some with a "predisposition" to investigate Trump...
...(5) the lack of support and contradictions of these allegations were clear from the outset...
...There is more but even if those five threshold points do not appear newsworthy, there is the fact that the media pushed these false claims for years with the support of politicians like Rep. Adam Schiff who insisted that they had evidence of such Russian collusion...
...As with past false stories from the Hunter Biden "Russian Disinformation" claim to the whipping of migrants at the border, there is just a collective shrug as reporters hold up the cover shot of Martha Stewart on Sports Illustrated.
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If Maduro thought the seizure operation was scary, wait until he reads this superseding indictment. He is not just facing documented allegations of his facilitating drug transits, but also potential high-level cooperating witnesses...justice.gov/opa/media/1422…
...The indictment details how this was not just a criminal enterprise but a family enterprise. The socialism shtick concealed an alleged burgeoning narcotics operation. Cartel communism was a market-driven business using state power to enforce monopoly power.
...Maduro has asked to speak with his consulate, which is his right and that of his wife as foreign nationals. It raises an interesting question of whether the Venezuelan government has paid counsel. That could get around government challenges to the source of legal fees...
The Senate is moving forward with this resolution to block Trump's use of military force in Venezuela: kaine.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/…
Sponsor Sen. Tim Kaine undermined his claims by showing a striking misunderstanding of inherent presidential powers this week. x.com/JonathanTurley…
...The Democrats are counting on a handful of GOP senators to join them. One of the most discussed is Sen. Lisa Murkowski. The vote will be particularly interesting since ConocoPhillips is Alaska's largest oil producer and is owed billions for the seizure of its assets...
...ConocoPhillips can not only move on prior court rulings in its favor for billions in damages, but it also stands to be one of the most likely companies to restore oil production in the country.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has asserted that the operation violates Article II of the U.N. charter. However, it will be Article II of the U.S. Constitution that will be the primary focus in any litigation.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jan/…
...The case could present a collision of international and U.S. law. Clearly, taking out the de facto head of state of Venezuela can be challenged under international law. However, this operation seems well within the navigational beacons laid out in past cases like Noriega...
...The President's reluctance to call for the installation of the opposition leader María Corina Machado may reflect the distinction between an arrest and a regime change. It is important for President Trump to remain focused on the criminal justice element to the operation...
In the oral argument of Nat'l Republican Senatorial Cmte v. Federal Election Comm., many are waiting for the appearance of Marc Elias, the central figure in the Steele dossier scandal and a lawyer who has attacked the Republican majority. ...jonathanturley.org/2025/12/08/mar…
...That distraction aside, the Administration's argument against the Colorado law limiting coordinated spending is being challenged by the liberal justices as Sarah Harris makes the case...
...Roman Martinez with Defending Limits on Coordinated Campaign Spending is making a spirited case against the standing of the challengers...
In the longest legal case of sustained comatose life, the case of Fani Willis was finally put to rest today when the formal declination of Pete Skandalakis, the executive director of the Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia. ...apnews.com/live/trump-new…
...As expected, once a competent prosecutor without a political agenda reviewed the case, it collapsed. Some of us have ridiculed the racketeering case as legal and factually incomprehensible...
...Willis spent millions on a case that was ultimately derailed by her own unethical conduct in hiring her former lover as prosecutor. She was lionized by the media and liberal pundits for her use of lawfare and ultimately reelected despite her ruinous handling of the prosecution
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) actually attacked EPA head Lee Zeldin for receiving money from one “Jeffrey Epstein"-- the problem was that it was a different Jeffrey Epstein, a NY doctor...
...This appears all part of the plan, according to Crockett:
"I always tell people that God had this amazing, beautiful plan that I was definitely not clued in on" ...