{"id":1570075,"date":"2022-07-25T14:22:06","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T18:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1570075"},"modified":"2022-07-25T14:22:24","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T18:22:24","slug":"constitutional-law-professor-jan-6-hearings-becoming-more-like-a-show-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/constitutional-law-professor-jan-6-hearings-becoming-more-like-a-show-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Constitutional Law Professor: Jan. 6 Hearings Becoming More Like a \u2018Show Trial\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fconstitutional-law-professor-jan-6-hearings-becoming-more-like-a-show-trial%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1570075&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Constitutional law professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-jonathan-turley\">Jonathan Turley<\/a> suggested the House Jan. 6 committee is doing itself a disservice by now allowing for cross-examination of witnesses and is becoming more and more like a \u201cshow trial\u201d under authoritarian regimes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy yielding to the temptation to exclude any opposing voices or views, the Committee seems intent on fulfilling the stereotype of the hearings as a show trial. It could be so much more but that requires politicians to do something that they are almost genetically resistant to: yielding time to opponents. It is the difference between creating a case for the next election as opposed to creating a record for history,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/jonathanturley.org\/2022\/07\/22\/true-confessions-liz-cheney-said-trump-family-and-aides-have-now-publicly-confessed\/\">wrote<\/a> on July 22.<\/p>\n<p>Even though Republicans and Democrats \u201chave blamed each other for the absence of any Republican-appointed members, that is not a license for the Committee to then dispense with any need to offer the public a full and fair account of the underlying evidence and claims,\u201d Turley continued.<\/p>\n<p>As some\u00a0Democrats \u201chave admitted that the hearings do not appear to be changing many minds of conservative or Republican voters,\u201d Turley argued that Republicans \u201ctuned out weeks ago when they saw the hearings as presenting a single narrative rather than pursue a comprehensive record on what occurred from a variety of perspectives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The result of the public hearings, which have gone on for several weeks, is the \u201cleft telling largely Democratically aligned voters not to vote for Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Turley, a\u00a0George Washington University Law School professor, has testified during congressional hearings in the past. Previously, he served as an impeachment witness during former President Donald Trump\u2019s first impeachment in late 2019.<\/p>\n<p>An alternative, the professor wrote in his blog, \u201cwas to secure a larger audience by allowing more balance\u201d and \u201cwould not have altered the power\u201d of public statements made by witnesses to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley suggested the House Jan. 6 committee is doing itself a disservice by now allowing for cross-examination of witnesses and is becoming more and more like a \u201cshow trial\u201d under authoritarian regimes. \u201cBy yielding to the temptation to exclude any opposing voices or views, the Committee seems intent on fulfilling the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1570075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1570075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1570075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1570075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1570075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}