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Jan 12 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The criminal investigation of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell raises legitimate concerns over retaliation. There was no referral from Congress (as is usually the case in alleged false statements in hearings). There are equally legitimate concerns over the soaring costs, but that is hardly unknown in Washington...
...President Trump has insisted that he did not order the criminal investigation, but the concern is that this is a Becket-like circumstance where associates respond to the implied question of "who will rid me of this meddlesome fed?'
Jan 9 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
A new video on the cellphone camera of the shooting officer is now available. That is the video that some of us have said that we most wanted to see. It shows the car driving directly into the officer as the wife of Good taunts the officer...
...The speed of the encounter is captured in the new video and reinforces the argument of the officer under the prevailing legal standard. This does not appear to be something akin to being hit by a refrigerator door, according to Mayor Frey...
Jan 9 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Jacob Frey is calling for Minnesota to be part of the investigation. Given his infamous declaration of the officer as a murderer and profane attack on ICE, Frey may be the least compelling person to call for such cooperation...
...Frey is confirming that there are "lies, damn lies, and statistics". He is claiming that ICE is responsible for "fifty percent of the shootings" in the city. It is only January 9th. Two shootings have occurred in the first week...
Jan 7 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Mayor Jacob Frey just called the claim of self-defense "b*llsh*t" and said that he watched the video. He apologized to the family and said that ICE is in Minnesota to "literally kill people." This is the type of rhetoric that fuels the rage. Perhaps wait for the investigation?...
...Frey says "let us offer the best version of ourselves . . . show them who we are." He added we will meet this moment "with love" while saying "get the f**k out of Minneapolis."
Jan 5 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
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.
Jan 5 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
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...
Jan 3 • 21 tweets • 3 min read
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...
Dec 9, 2025 • 20 tweets • 2 min read
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...
Nov 26, 2025 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
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...
Nov 19, 2025 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
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...
...Zeldon responded.
Hunter Biden appears intent on showing that rage can be as addictive as drugs. In his latest profane tirade, Biden viciously attacked journalist Miranda Devine as "horrendously ugly" and a "whore" for exposing his influence peddling and corruption...
...I have previously noted how Devine and her colleagues defied virtually all of the establishment media in doggedly pursuing the laptop story. There will be no Pulitzer for them, of course. That went to the Times and the Post for the debunked Russiagate story...
Nov 6, 2025 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The acquittal of former Justice Department employee Sean Dunn today seems more like the result of jury nullification than deliberation. Dunn did not deny throwing his sandwich and hitting an officer in the misdemeanor case. ... foxnews.com/us/ex-doj-work…
...His counsel argued that it was all just free speech: "It was a harmless gesture at the end of him exercising his right to speak out." So now citizens can pummel officers with objects as an "exclamation point"?...
Nov 5, 2025 • 37 tweets • 5 min read
Solicitor General John Sauer just began the Administration's argument on the Trump tariffs...
Sauer is getting hit hard on tariffs being an Article I power (with Congress) as opposed to an Article II power (with the President). Justices Kagan and Sotomayor are raising the issue...
Oct 20, 2025 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Halftime is shaping up to be one of the most bruising periods in the next Super Bowl. After the NFL announced that Bad Bunny would do the show, there is a petition in opposition signed by tens of thousands and TPUSA is planning an alternative halftime show to pull away viewers...
...For NBC, a major boycott could freak advertisers who are paying a premium for spots around halftime. It is an interesting boycott tactic to pull away viewers to hit the bottom line for the network. What remains to be seen is whether the controversy will draw or deter viewers.
Oct 16, 2025 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Here is the indictment. d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/static/2025/10…
...The indictment recounts numerous alleged incidents of transmitting classified information to third parties as opposed to the removal of actual documents. Notably, Count 6 is described as the revelation of “intelligence concerning a foreign country’s interactions with an adversary; in quotation marks direct statement collected via intelligence source and methods on a foreign country.” This was allegedly Top secret information. It allegedly included foreign intelligence describing an adversary’s planned attack on a facility.”
Oct 16, 2025 • 8 tweets • 1 min read
John Bolton is now reportedly indicted by a Maryland grand jury. The sealed indictment is believed to be based on his possession of classified documents...
...Fox is reporting 18 counts against Bolton.
Oct 6, 2025 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Larry Snelling, Chicago Police Superintendent, just denied the story on the failure of CPD to assist ICE agents. He states that CPD officers were present. However, there are also recordings of CPD orders not to go to the scene. The question is whether there was a delay in one or more of the calls...
...Those orders told officers to "stay put." There is also a recorded message that “Per the chief of patrol: Clear everybody out, we’re not responding over there." This comes down to the timeline. If these officers were told to stay put, the question is why and for how long...
Sep 10, 2025 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
The rising political violence reportedly escalated further today with the reported shooting Charlie Kirk, the executive director of Turning Point USA (TPUSA). We have been discussing attacks on TPUSA for years on campuses...jonathanturley.org/2025/04/04/lef…
Reports remain sketchy, but Fox is indeed reporting that Kirk was shot... foxnews.com/video/56146159…
Aug 21, 2025 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
There are reports that the New York appellate court has tossed out the absurd civil judgment against Donald Trump. If true, it is great news for the New York court system in regaining some of the credibility lost during this litigation...
...Notably, both AG Letitia James and Judge Arthur Engoron did their level best to effectively block an appeal by demanding a ridiculous bond. jonathanturley.org/2024/02/21/not…
Jul 27, 2025 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Rep. Jason Crow just went on Fox Sunday and insisted that the lack of Russian collusion is nothing new since members knew about it for years. That is a particularly telling and franking damning statement since figures like Adam Schiff were out spreading the false collusion claims
...Now Sen. Schiff even insisted that he had evidence of collusion after the allegation was rejected by the Special Counsel -- evidence that he never produced and does not appear to exist. jonathanturley.org/2025/07/27/the…
Jul 23, 2025 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The media eagerly picked up the Morning Call story of the “disappearing” of an immigrant. As the story went viral, a few people decided actually to look into the case and found that it not only made no sense but there no evidence of such a deportation...jonathanturley.org/2025/07/23/the…
...The story had the same feel as the widely reported whipping of migrants by border agents. The media went into a frenzy over a false story accusing mounted officers of whipping undocumented migrants near Del Rio, Texas, on Sept. 19, 2021...
