The Latest Breaking News from Jonathan Turley

WASHINGTON — Attorney General Merrick Garland is rapidly approaching a choice likely to shape American politics and the boundaries of law enforcement for decades: whether Donald Trump will be the first former U.S. president charged with a crime.

We still know almost nothing about their contents, which is relevant in assessing the decision to search Mar-a-Lago.

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.

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

‘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’

Normal criminal law covers the alleged acts without politicizing proceedings.

Conservatives and corporate media pundits want to use a Red Scare statute to arrest people demonstrating against the looming anti-abortion victory

“That’s a stretch, though, no?”

Going after oligarchs breathes new life into sketchy asset forfeiture powers.

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…

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…