All posts tagged "Turley"

A law professor who frequently defends Donald Trump got a swift correction on Wednesday when he asserted a dead judge had spoken out against ex-Trump attorney Michael Cohen.

"U.S. District Judge William Henry Pauley III slammed Michael Cohen today in saying that he has clearly committed 'perjury,'" he posted in a tweet thread.

"The court noted that there are 'two possibilities: one, Cohen committed perjury when he pleaded guilty before Judge Pauley or, two, Cohen committed perjury in his October 2023 testimony. Either way, it is perverse to cite the testimony, as Schwartz did, as evidence of Cohen’s ‘commitment to upholding the law.’”...

George Washington University Law professor Jonathan Turley, a frequent defender of Donald Trump who also advocated for the ex-president as a witness during his first impeachment, just received a lesson of his own after attacking President Joe Biden's great-great grandfather.

Turley, a Fox News legal pundit who predicted Trump would lose his claim that he can't be prosecuted for election crimes because of "presidential immunity," wrote a new article in which he outlines "a recent discovery of the criminal history of the great-great-grandfather" of Biden.

"It turns out that the evasion of accountability may be something of a family trait acquired through generations of natural selection," Turley wrote in promoting the column on social media....