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Fox News forced to correct legal scholar over humiliating and debunked election error claim

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A legal scholar on Fox News attempted to spew a debunked claim about election errors on Friday, and even the network’s conservative anchors had to stop him in his tracks. 

On Friday, Jonathan Turley, who famously defended the president during impeachment, appeared on Fox & Friends where he discussed a false theory surrounding the Dominion voting machines. According to Turley, “thousands” of President Donald Trump’s votes in Michigan were switched to President-elect Joe Biden in Michigan — another claim the president is pushing to undermine his election defeat to his Democratic opponent.

Turley claimed the software had been used in multiple states including “half of the districts in Michigan” as he suggested that the “vulnerable” software may have impacted the outcome of the election. He made clear he believed mistakes may be the result of “human error.” 

However, a Fox News co-host pushed back as he noted that he also researched Trump’s claim. He explained that the glitch did not impact or compromise the vote count in any way. Like Trump’s arguments, Turley’s claims were also confirmed to be unfounded.  Continue reading.

The GOP’s only impeachment witness on Wednesday contradicted his own previous testimony

  • Jonathan Turley, a law professor who appeared as a Republican witness in Wednesday’s impeachment hearings, made a number of claims that directly contradicted his previous statements and testimony.
  • On Wednesday, Turley argued there was no proof that President Donald Trump broke a specific law related to the Ukraine scandal and therefore should not be impeached.
  • But in 1998, Turley made the opposite case, telling Congress during former President Bill Clinton’s impeachment hearings that Clinton’s actions didn’t need to violate any laws in order to be impeachable conduct.
  • “While there’s a high bar for what constitutes grounds for impeachment, an offense does not have to be indictable,” he wrote in a 2014 op-ed for The Washington Post.

Jonathan Turley, a professor at George Washington University Law School, testified on Wednesday that he didn’t see any proof that President Donald Trump committed a crime and that Trump therefore should not be impeached.

Turley was one of four legal experts — and the only one invited by the Republicans — who testified in the House Judiciary Committee’s first public impeachment hearing about Trump.

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Constitutional law experts refute GOP witness’ claim Trump associates can refuse to comply with congressional subpoenas: ‘That is the act of obstruction’

AlterNet logoWhen public hearings in the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump moved to the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, Republicans brought on constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley to make a case against impeaching the president. Turley, unlike the three legal scholars featured by House Democrats, was highly critical of the way Democrats have handled the impeachment inquiry — and one of Turley’s criticisms had to do with subpoenas. House Democrats, Turley argued during his testimony, should go through the courts to subpoena potential witnesses. But some legal experts vehemently disagree.

Turley testified that if House Democrats “actually subpoena witnesses and go to court, then you have an obstruction case — because a court issues an order. And unless they stay that order, by a higher court, then you have obstruction.”

Much of the criticism of Turley’s testimony has come from Democrats, but some of it came from Fox News’ Judge Andrew Napolitano — a right-wing libertarian who isn’t shy about criticizing Trump at times. And according to Napolitano, Turley’s testimony underestimated the amount of subpoena powers the U.S. House of Representatives has.

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