1. Jonathan Turley is an American attorney, legal scholar, writer, commentator, and legal analyst in broadcast and print journalism.
50 Facts About Jonathan Turley
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Jonathan Turley has testified in multiple impeachment hearings and removal trials in Congress, including the impeachment of President Bill Clinton and both the first and second impeachments of President Donald Trump.
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Jonathan Turley is the author of the book The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.
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Jonathan Turley has served as counsel on prominent federal cases including the defense of Area 51 workers, and as lead counsel in the 2014 challenge to the Affordable Care Act.
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Jonathan Turley grew up in a politically active Chicago family as the youngest of five children.
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Jonathan Turley's father, John Turley was an international architect, partner at Skidmore, Owens, and Merrill, and the former associate of famed modernist architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
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Jonathan Turley has written about his father's influence on his constitutional theories.
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Jonathan Turley's mother, Angela Piazza Turley, was a social worker and activist who was the former president of Jane Addams Hull-House in Chicago.
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Jonathan Turley is the author of the book The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.
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Jonathan Turley served as a House leadership page in 1977 and 1978 under the sponsorship of Illinois Democrat Sidney Yates.
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Jonathan Turley received a bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago in 1983, and a Juris Doctor degree from Northwestern University School of Law in 1987.
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Jonathan Turley served as Executive Articles Editor of Northwestern University Law Review.
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Jonathan Turley holds the Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law at The George Washington University Law School, where he teaches torts, criminal procedure, and constitutional law.
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Jonathan Turley is the youngest person to receive an academic chair in the school's history.
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Jonathan Turley frequently appears in the national media as a commentator on a multitude of subjects ranging from the 2000 US presidential election controversy to the Terri Schiavo case in 2005.
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Jonathan Turley often is a guest on Sunday talk shows, with more than two-dozen appearances on Meet the Press, ABC This Week, Face the Nation, and Fox News Sunday.
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Jonathan Turley served as a contributor on Countdown with Keith Olbermann from 2003 until 2011 on MSNBC, and later on Current TV in 2011 and early 2012.
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Jonathan Turley is on the board of contributors of USA Today and is a columnist with The Hill.
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Jonathan Turley is currently a legal analyst with Fox News.
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Jonathan Turley has opined that the Supreme Court is injecting itself into partisan politics.
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Jonathan Turley frequently has expressed the view that recent nominees to the court hold extreme views.
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Jonathan Turley disagrees with the theory that dealing with bullies is just a part of growing up, claiming that they are "no more a natural part of learning than is parental abuse a natural part of growing up" and believes that "litigation could succeed in forcing schools to take bullying more seriously".
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On October 11,2016, Libertarian Party candidate for President, Gary Johnson, announced that if he was elected President, Jonathan Turley would be one of his two top choices for the Supreme Court seat that remained open following the death of Justice Antonin Scalia.
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Jonathan Turley has been repeatedly named as a top pick for the Court by libertarian presidential candidates, including in 2020.
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Jonathan Turley mentioned that he supported the Supreme Court nomination of Neil Gorsuch.
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Jonathan Turley described US Attorney General Eric Holder in an op-ed as President Barack Obama's sin-eater, writing:.
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On November 21,2014, Jonathan Turley agreed to represent House Speaker John Boehner and the Republican Party in a suit filed against the Obama administration alleging unconstitutional implementation of the Affordable Care Act, specifically the individual mandate.
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The conceptual thread running through many of the issues taken on by Jonathan Turley is that they involve claims of executive privilege.
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Jonathan Turley is a frequent witness before the House and Senate on constitutional and statutory issues, as well as tort reform legislation.
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Jonathan Turley testified at the confirmation hearings of Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and Attorney General William Barr.
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Jonathan Turley was quoted extensively by congressman James Rogan during the Clinton impeachment hearings.
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On December 4,2019, Jonathan Turley testified before the House Judiciary Committee regarding the constitutional grounds for presidential impeachment in the impeachment inquiry against then-President Donald Trump, arguing against a Trump impeachment.
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Jonathan Turley argued that the evidence did not meet the standard definitions of those crimes, contrary to the testimony of three witnesses that such legal definitions have always been used as a measure for impeachment deliberations.
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Jonathan Turley pointed out that he denied that you needed a prerequisite crime in both impeachments and Democratic members in the Clinton impeachment actually relied on his position in arguing the case for impeachment in both the Trump impeachment hearing and trial.
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Jonathan Turley noted that in both hearings he stressed that a president could be impeached for non-criminal acts, including abuse of power, and House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler ended the Trump impeachment hearings by quoting him to that effect.
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Jonathan Turley has noted that the only disagreement was the sufficiency of the record and his calling on House to issue subpoenas for key witnesses such as former national security adviser John Bolton.
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Jonathan Turley noted that both Presidents Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton were able to go all the way to the Supreme Court on their challenges before impeachment.
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Jonathan Turley was cited by both the White House and House managers in their arguments before the United States Senate in the Trump impeachment trial.
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Jonathan Turley condemned Trump's speech before the riot on Twitter when it was still being given and opposed from the outset the challenge to the electoral votes that decided the election in favor of Joe Biden brought by pro-Trump Republicans in the US House of Representatives.
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Jonathan Turley argued for a bipartisan, bicameral vote of censure to condemn Trump's words and actions leading up to the riot.
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Jonathan Turley declined to represent Trump, but did speak to Republican senators before both the first Trump trial and the second Trump trial.
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Jonathan Turley described Tim Walz as one of the "most enthusiastic supporters of censorship and blacklisting systems", and asserted that Walz made a false claim about free speech and the claim was rejected by the Supreme Court.
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Jonathan Turley contended Homan's comments were a "baseless threat" and that such a move would be "an assault on free speech rights".
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Jonathan Turley was ranked as 38th in the top 100 most cited "public intellectuals" in a 2001 study by Judge Richard Posner of intellectuals referenced in the media and public debates.
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In 2005, Jonathan Turley was given the Columnist of the Year award for Single-Issue Advocacy for his columns on civil liberties by the Aspen Institute and The Week magazine.
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Jonathan Turley was ranked among the nation's top 500 lawyers in 2008.
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Jonathan Turley was found to be the second most cited law professor in the country as well as being ranked as one of the top ten military lawyers.
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Jonathan Turley has been ranked in the top five most popular law professors on Twitter.
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Jonathan Turley has served as counsel in notable cases; representing whistleblowers, military personnel, and a wide range of other clients in national security, environmental, and constitutional law cases.
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On December 29,2023, Jonathan Turley was targeted as part of the 2023 swatting attempts of American politicians.