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...
(Excerpt) Read more at jonathanturley.org ...
As long as the media is going to continue to promote and give legitimacy to scoundrels making the most irresponsible, false and incendiary charges, a large percentage of the population will easily be convinced every bit of it is true.
This is extremely dangerous, and if something isn’t done to put a stop to it our society will destroy itself.
Impossible to believe the bast**** do not realize this. I am convinced they do, and they will not stop until they have ripped the country apart.
It used to be somewhat challenging to spot media promoted lies. No longer is this the case. These people no longer make any effort to conceal it. They do not care. They know over 50% of the population will continue to believe everything told them (by the main stream media).
Regrettably it has become impossible to believe the country can be saved without the loss of blood. Lots of it.
Jay S. a SCOTUS bar member, Dersh 50 years of winning tough
cases, Judge Starr was a Dean of a Law School, Ray an allstar prosecutor , these guys will eat the Dems lunch, your talking about hundreds of years of experience , a dream team. And what a job they did, without even calling one witness.
they intend to criminalize all opposition.
A remarkably wise and pithy summation of current events.... FRegards
Well, if he says so, then it must be true.
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He did get his JD from Fordham. Went at night. Not sure about bar exam.
God Bless Jonathan Turley and Alan Dershowitz...
These people are nuts! Since when is arguing the applicable facts and law grounds for disbarment?
North Carolina Law Professor and CNN Legal Analyst Michael Gerhardt joined this dubious argument on CNN yesterday.
another paid stooge
Funny, I saw potential SCOTUS nominees.
Holy shit! Right on the money! And sooooo messed up in their thinking
Turley is getting red-pilled, whether he wants to or not. It’s inspiring that he and Dershowitz truly do love the law so much that in spite of being liberals themselves, they don’t want to see the law governing the Balance of Powers being grossly abused for craven political reasons.
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