Is Hillary Clinton’s conduct as a young attorney fair game?

The Volokh Conspiracy ^ | June 20, 2014 | Jonathan H. Adler

[right-wing agnostic]

Successfully defending a criminal defendant is nothing for Clinton to be ashamed of, so long as her conduct was ethical.

[Uri’el-2012]

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[Salgak]

Mitt Romney’s prep-school pranks and vacation details were fair game.

So is any bit of Hillary!’s record. .

[mulligan]

Sure, why not? She is nothing special. Just another corrupt and incompetent politician.

[sodpoodle]

I’m watching John Kerry attempting to project an effective SOS with gravitas. It ain’t working - but I truly believe he will take on Hilary for POTUS nominee.

Cruz will crucify him.

Cruz & Allen West would be a ticket to freedom.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

I completely agree with you.

BOTH of our last two presidential candidates on the Republican side, have fought (desperately at times) to beat every one of their (Republican) rivals.

Then BOTH of them, once opposed by Barack Obama, quieted right now and didn’t run against him, with anywhere near the same determination. In fact, it was almost as if both of them, lost on purpose.

McCain did a great thing in picking Palin as his running mate in 2008. Other than that, I cannot think of why I would conclude they hadn’t both deliberately run to capture the GOP candidacy, then throw the election (almost as if on purpose) to Barack Obama.

I know that is not likely. But both of them, acted as if they really did not want to beat Obama nearly as badly, as they wanted to with the GOP candidacy.

To heck with the GOP if that is how we end up running people.

I say we keep a very clear eye on Palin, and I think she should run (against) the GOP in 2016.

I know a lot of people here disgree with that, but I’m all in favor of a Palin insurgency.

[jocon307]

Sarah Palin, that was one thing, but what about Sarah Palin’s daughters? That’s what they did, so forget “fair game”.

[Rides_A_Red_Horse]

McCain did a great thing in picking Palin as his running mate in 2008. Other than that, I cannot think of why I would conclude they hadn’t both deliberately run to capture the GOP candidacy, then throw the election (almost as if on purpose) to Barack Obama.

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Considering the extremely poor performance of Sarah Palin’s “Handlers” and how they reacted when she “went rogue” I think Sarah’s talent caught them off guard.

She wasn’t supposed to be a good pick!

[FlingWingFlyer]

Is Hillary Clinton’s conduct as a young attorney fair game?

Probably not. After all, Hillary's Benghazi fiasco was two years ago, dude, and it's not fair game anymore. 'RATS get a pass on everything they do.

[nascarnation]

The MSM used more resources to investigate Sam “Joe the plumber” Wurzelbacher’s trade license than they did Baraq’s dubious birth cert. And Joe was just a guy who stumbled into an interview, LOL.

[Usagi_yo]

Under the assumed innocent until proven guilty system, each and every criminal defendant gets to have as much of a zealous defense that they can afford while the prosecutors proceed with neither pride nor passion in their prosecution.

[Starstruck]

Is Hillary Clinton’s conduct as a young attorney fair game?

Hillary and I are the same age. 28 in 1975 is not the same 28 as it is for many today. By age 28 I no longer thought of myself as being young. Enough had happened in my life that I was totally responsible for any decisions I made. She had been called on the carpet for actions during Watergate a couple of years earlier. Evidently that was wasted effort.

[leprechaun9]

What makes you think that the architect of "THE VAST RIGHT WING CONSPIRACY" has changed her legal beliefs and the practices that caused her to be fired by her boss on the HOUSE NIXON IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS? A leopard cant change his spots and a scum can't change her ways!

Google Jerry Zeifman (her boss)

[al baby]

She did not say Hillary was 71. She was speaking about herself if al baby. could understand that oh boy

[Gay State Conservative]

If Romney's alleged conduct as a boarding school student 45 years ago is fair game then the treatment of a rape victim by Attorney Rhodham is fair game.And so is Attorney Rodham’s having been fired from the Watergate investigation team by the Rat that was in charge.

[skinkinthegrass]

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[Lurking Libertarian]

I would think a “successful ‘defense’” of someone who is guilty requires a breach of ethics.

...and you would be wrong. The U.S. Constitution requires that an attorney defend anyone accused of a crime, and there are many ethical ways to do so.

[SeaHawkFan]

She was also fired as a staffer for the Watergate investigation for he dishonesty.

Does anyone think she is any less dishonest today; or is she far worse?

[skeeter]

Is there any shape that left-wing morality cannot be twisted into and made to fit?

[MHGinTN]

“What difference does it make?” ... She’s a democrat. Democrats are liars, thieves, anti-American lickspittlists, and degenerates. She’s a run of the mill democrat. She lies, steals, and is a degenerate. What difference does it make, demcrats will vote for her because she is one of them.

[DManA]

The victim, who is now 52, says any such claims were untrue, that she never made accusations against anyone else, and that she believes Clinton was lying.

The victim accuses Clinton of lying in an affidavit. That should have been at the top of the article, not buried half way down. That is the shocking crux of the matter.