Posted on 02/02/2020 6:04:27 PM PST by OddLane
There have been suggestions that the White House defense team could be brought up on bar charges for their arguments in the Senate. I have previously written that such statements by Speaker Nancy Pelosi and others are vindictive and ill-informed. The White House team were effective advocates for their clients and we do not disbar lawyers for making arguments or defending individuals that we do not like. I was surprised and disappointed therefore that my fellow witness from the Trump impeachment hearing, North Carolina Law Professor and CNN Legal Analyst Michael Gerhardt joined this dubious argument on CNN yesterday. The call for ethics charges seems dangerously close to the view of Lawrence O’Donnell that Trump defenders are barred from his MSNBC program because they are all “liars.”
Obviously, Gerhardt and I have substantial disagreements. Gerhardt supported the articles of impeachment based on bribery and other crimes. I opposed those four articles, which were ultimately rejected by the Committee. The Committee went forward with the two articles that I said would be legitimate but remained unproven. We later disagreed when Gerhardt declared that this impeachment was the first time that the White House closely coordinated with his own party on the handling of the impeachment trial. Those however were academic differences over the history and interpretation of prior presidential impeachment cases.
This however is different. Proponents of the impeachment seem to be lashing out at counsel and suggesting that they were acting unethically in zealously advancing the President’s defenses. After disagreeing with me that the impeachment was not “rushed” prematurely, Gerhardt asked to make a different point about the defense team. He declared...
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Seriously, Turley? Why even write this cr@p??
Lemme guess....
Dems. throw garbage at the wall thinking it will stick.
Turley is defending the legal team!!!
The “Bar Charges” will be for all the bottles of champagne at the victory party.
“CNN Legal Analyst” means “person who was absent from law school the day they taught law”.
I get that.
He could do that without mentioning Gerhardt’s baseless charge...in the headline.
Love it!!
Adults and children that were properly raised will, when caught in an obvious lie, admit it and try to move on. Children that were not raised properly will double down. 99% of rats are still children and were not raised properly.
Gerhardt is attacking the foundation of the profession. lawyers are supposed to aggressive in defending their clients and the line between right and wrong gets straddled (for the lack of a better term). Turley knows that disbarring the defense team would hurt the entire profession. IMO
I don’t even think the Bar would accept the paperwork. How stupid can the Dems be?
The Left believes in Total War.
The fraud in the 2020 election will be EPIC.
Two can play that game.
They are so stupid they think that they are still dealing with pushover country club republicans. They want to start a slugfest like this, they are going to have to deal with their own disciplinary complaints.
The Two Obamas, of course, are safe, since both of them already lost their bar licenses.
How dare Donald Trump defend himself! Everybody needs to remember that this entire impeachment fiasco is not about removing Donald Trump. It’s about Covering up their own corruption. Period. They don’t want the American people to find out Just how bad they are. And how much money has been stolen from taxpayers
Yeah every time a Democrat burps it gets treated like the Gettysburg Address.
Jonathan, your fellow liberals are nuts.
If you follow Democrat statements and actions, they intend to criminalize all opposition.
How does that commercial go? Oh yeah...
And there is more...
You haven’t seen anything yet. Wait until it gets closer to November.
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