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Jonathan
Turley
says
the
darnedest
things.
And
while
we
could
fill
several
pages
critiquing
his
reliably
nugatory
legal
analysis,
we’re
not
even
going
to
go
there
today.
Instead
we
ask:
Why
is
Turley’s
work
consistently
riddled
with
egregious
factual
errors
and
why
are
none
of
his
editors
even
attempting
a
basic
fact
check
to
avoid
embarrassing
their
publications?
It’s
not
difficult!
GW
Law
could
probably
get
a
research
assistant
to
do
it
for
him.
Because
he
screws
up
facts…
a
lot!
Remember
when
he
offered
his
thoughts
on
Judge
Pauley’s
recent
opinion
in
Michael
Cohen’s
case
even
though
Judge
Pauley
had
been
dead
for
three
years?
Or
when
he
screwed
up
the
presidential
inauguration
date
by
a
whole
year?
Or
when
he
explained
how
Letter
from
Birmingham
Jail
author
Martin
Luther
King
Jr.
had
never
been
arrested?
When
it
comes
to
the
decline
in
America’s
test
scores,
maybe
in
this
case
we
really
can
blame
the
teacher.
It’s
on
him
when
he
screws
up
social
media
posts
or
spouts
nonsense
on
cable
news,
but
he
messes
up
actual
published
work
too
where
you’d
think
some
gatekeeper
might
occasionally
catch
these
things.
In
his
latest
article
for
The
Hill,
Turley
explains
why
Joe
Biden’s
decision
to
end
his
campaign
creates
a
“25th
Amendment
fight.”
That,
however,
leaves
the
lingering
question
after
the
fall.
How
can
Biden
remain
in
office
when
he
is
incapable
of
running
for
the
office?
Because
those
are
two
different
things?
One
is
about
Biden
continuing
to
have
the
juice
to
run
the
country
for
another
six
months
and
the
other
is
about
failing
to
excite
voters.
In
any
event,
he
also
lends
his
diminishing
credibility
to
the
idea
that
it
“makes
a
mockery
out
of
the
democratic
process”
to
nominate
the
person
that
primary
voters
knew
would
be
expected
to
serve
as
president
were
Biden
elected
and
died
in
office.
But,
since
there
are
people
still
alive
who
remember
an
incumbent
presidential
candidate
dropping
out
of
the
race,
Turley
felt
the
need
to
contrast
this
with
Lyndon
Johnson’s
departure
from
the
1968
race.
This
is
different
than
President
Lyndon
Johnson’s
decision
on
March
31,
1968,
that
“I
shall
not
seek,
and
I
will
not
accept
the
nomination
of
my
party
for
another
term
as
your
president.”That
was
before
any
primaries.
NO,
IT
WASN’T!
It
was
very
famously
after
Gene
McCarthy
earned
42
percent
of
the
vote
to
finish
a
too-close-for-comfort
second
in
New
Hampshire
running
as
an
anti-war
candidate.
It’s
OK…
it’s
not
like
1968
was
an
exhaustively
chronicled
year
in
American
history
or
anything.
AND
there
were
only
15
primaries
in
1968!
At
the
time,
most
states
still
determined
national
delegates
through
state
party
conventions
as
opposed
to
popular
contests
making
this
an
apples
to
coconuts
comparison
anyway.
This
is
the
sort
of
basic
political
knowledge
that
a
publication
calling
itself
THE
HILL
shouldn’t
be
botching.
But
it’s
not
just
The
Hill.
The
New
York
Post
published
Turley’s
grand
gotcha
theory
to
bring
down
the
Biden
crime
family:
In
2018,
Hunter
Biden’s
world
was
collapsing.The
New
York
Times
had
run
a
story
on
one
of
his
shady
deals
with
the
Chinese
and
his
father,
then
vice
president,
was
pulled
into
the
vortex.
Except
Joe
Biden
was
not
the
vice
president
in
2018.
It
took
just
shy
of
24
hours
for
the
Post
to
figure
this
out.
Turley’s
personal
blog
left
the
error
up
even
longer.
Awkwardly,
removing
the
“vice
president”
bit
reduced
the
entire
article
to
gibberish
since
it
was
entirely
predicated
on
the
idea
that
a
2018
conversation
with
the
elder
Biden
amounted
to
abuse
of
office
when
he
was
then
a
private
citizen.
On
the
one
hand,
humiliating
factual
errors
aren’t
as
destructive
to
the
national
fabric
as
peddling
professional
love
letters
to
Aileen
Cannon,
undermining
the
rule
of
law
by
recklessly
fluffing
low-information
audiences
to
throw
a
tantrum
when
the
Eleventh
Circuit
inevitably
benchslaps
Cannon
—
again
—
and
reverses
an
opinion
predicated
on
a
theory
so
cockamamie
that
Clarence
Thomas
couldn’t
even
get
Alito
to
buy
into.
On
the
other
hand…
these
are
basic,
confirmable
facts.
Just
Google
it,
dude.
Succession
by
Defenestration:
How
Biden’s
Withdrawal
May
Trigger
a
25th
Amendment
Fight
[The
Hill]
Earlier:
Jonathan
Turley
Has
New
Theory
To
Bust
Hunter
Biden
And
All
It
Requires
Is
Warping
The
Fabric
Of
Space-Time
Jonathan
Turley
Still
Can’t
Figure
Out
Calendar,
Constitution
Remember
When
Martin
Luther
King
Was
Arrested?
Because
Jonathan
Turley
Sure
Doesn’t!
Jonathan
Turley
Says
Judge
Pauley
Really
Blasted
Michael
Cohen
Yesterday,
Except
Judge
Pauley’s
Been
Dead
For
3
Years