George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley condemned the Connecticut Bar Association for telling members that calling the trial of former President Donald Trump “corrupt and rigged” is “reckless” and risks inflaming violence.
Following the Trump trial, public officials have called the trial a “sham” and “rigged,” and have said the justice system and Judge Juan Merchan are “corrupt and rigged” and that the jury was “partisan,” the state bar association said in its message Friday.
Such accusations, according to the association, “are unsubstantiated and reckless,” and “can provoke acts of violence against those serving the public as employees of the judicial branch.”
The association said that “free speech includes criticism,” such as “commenting on the decision to bring the prosecution, the prosecution’s legal theory, the judge’s rulings, or the verdict itself,” but that public officials went too far.”[B]aseless allegations made by public officials cross the line from criticism to dangerous rhetoric. […]
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