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| Gerhardt: The Entire White House Defense Team Will Face Bar Charges |
| 2020-02-03 |
| They've lost their F'n minds [JonathanTurley.org] 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 |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #12 Don’t the laws against slander and libel kick in at some point? Not all these people are “public figures”. |
| Posted by: KBK 2020-02-03 22:51 |
| #11 #8 If there was lying, slander and ethics issues, it wasn't the prosecution who was responsible. If there was lying, slander and ethics issues, it wasn't the |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2020-02-03 17:57 |
| #10 #7 They've lost their F'n minds That right there is pretty much the epitaph for the 21st century so far. Pity. I had such high hopes. Change your historical century marks, Steve. The postwar Global-Grifter regime just ended, and with it, the 20ccame to a close. The Shitshow represents the death rattle of the old regime - not its apotheosis but its farcical end. The real 21st century began just now: Brexit + Trump's Triumph over the corrupt, incompetent dump of the Globalist Deep State. Sort of like how most historians mark the 19c as effectively the proof from 1815-1914: from the Concert of Vienna to the Guns of August. The Global Grift era ran from 1945-2019. A new era has dawned. |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-02-03 17:20 |
| #9 They're evil, first and foremost. Calling them crazy or merely stupid is going way too easy on them. (Although many of them are crazy and stupid) |
| Posted by: charger 2020-02-03 16:04 |
| #8 Gerhardt, Turn the mirror around and you will find the your culprits. Schiff, Pelosi, Nadler, and others of the House that created the sh!t show for the American people are the ones who ought to face charges before the bar. If there was lying, slander and ethics issues, it wasn't the prosecution who was responsible. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2020-02-03 12:22 |
| #7 They've lost their F'n minds That right there is pretty much the epitaph for the 21st century so far. Pity. I had such high hopes. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2020-02-03 10:57 |
| #6 Seems like the Shiffer Syndrome is spreading. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2020-02-03 09:31 |
| #5 Scratch these people and find a totalitarian under the skin nearly every time. Power by any means necessary. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-02-03 08:19 |
| #4 Moreover, bar associations are equally concerned about the ethics of impugning the conduct of other lawyers without sufficient support. Bring up ethics charges against Gerhardt with the bar; we'll find out just how 'concerned' they are. |
| Posted by: Raj 2020-02-03 07:58 |
| #3 What's the difference between a good lawyer and a great lawyer? A good lawyer knows the law. A great lawyer knows the judge. Whats the difference between a great lawyer and Trump and the Republican Senate? For the past three years Trump and the Republican Senate appointed and confirmed all of the judges. |
| Posted by: Varmint Splat1454 2020-02-03 07:48 |
| #2 Through the Looking Glass now. Mad Hatters, all of them, lying shamelessly brazenly and constantly, for YEARS-- and now accusing others of "lying." F--- these morons. What an unbelievably sh!tty political class we have. |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-02-03 07:07 |
| #1 The Dems lose, the Dems lash out. Repeat ad nauseam. |
| Posted by: Uleck Spererong9442 2020-02-03 07:03 |