Jens David Ohlin, a law professor at Cornell University finds it criminal.
Opinion shared by Ryan Goodman, a former Defense Department special counsel and current editor of the legal site Just Security, agrees.
Paul S. Ryan, a lawyer and vice president at Common Cause, finds it criminal.
Brendan Fischer, a lawyer at the Campaign Legal Center, agrees it is a crime
Jan W. Baran, a Washington lawyer and former general counsel for the Republican National Committee disagrees
Jeffrey Jacobovitz, a white-collar lawyer who represented officials in the Clinton White House finds it criminal.
Turley thinks it is not a crime
The legal test by the lawyers is the same one used by the courts. When the defendant is a republican and the opponent or judge is a demoocrat, then the activity is a crime. Conspiracy to commit an election offense. This is a very simple legal test, and it works every time.
What is the political affiliation of those who imagine it’s illegal? What statute are they citing?