Law professors torch Trump legal memo

[brooklynite]

Source: Politico

A recently published letter from President Donald Trump's attorneys claiming that the president could not have obstructed the federal investigation into ties between his campaign and Russia is deeply flawed, 14 prominent law professors and legal scholars said Monday in a pointed rebuttal sent to top lawyers at the White House.

"The Office of the President is not a get-out-of-jail free card for lawless behavior," the professors wrote in their letter, obtained by POLITICO. "Indeed, our country’s Founders made it clear in the Declaration of Independence that they did not believe that even a king had such powers; they specifically cited King George’s obstruction of justice as among the 'injuries and usurpations' that justified independence. Our Founders would not have created — and did not create — a Constitution that would permit the President to use his powers to violate the laws for corrupt and self-interested reasons."

Among the better known signers of the rebuttal: Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe, former U.S. Attorneys Harry Litman and Joyce Vance and former Obama White House ethics czar Norm Eisen. The letter was coordinated by Project Democracy, a watchdog group.

The scholars' letter argues that the Constitution's requirement that presidents "take care that the Laws be faithfully executed" precludes the kind of sweeping arguments Trump private lawyers John Dowd and Jay Sekulow made in a 20-page January letter to Special Counsel Robert Mueller. The Trump attorneys' missive was first published Saturday by the New York Times.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/05/law-professors-torch-trump-memo-624157

[hlthe2b]

1. Worth at least a skim of the letter in full:

https://protectdemocracy.org/law-professor-article-ii/

Good on Tribe and other luminaries in constitutional law.

[SWBTATTReg]

2. Idiot is going to go down in flames...

This time around, it isn't the university students he ripped off, or the numerous contractors he ripped off by the dozens via work done on his properties, or the neighbors of his golf courses he's unilaterally gone ahead and done stuff to his properties despite their objections to his proposals, or the multiple conflicts of interest that he's okayed in advance w/ his cabinet choices.

Despite all of the spin, all of the false claims made by rump and his cronies (G in particular), serious violations of the law has occurred and multiple convictions have been already been obtained by Mueller and his band, and more than likely, more convictions are to come, since deals have been (and probably are continuing to be made) are being made by Mueller, and we haven't fully seen the fruits of Mueller's efforts yet.

The repug-controlled Congress, especially those who favor rump, have also participated in the cover up of this administration's abuses and have failed in their duty to protect the country, and in fact, aided in the cover up by failing to find 'anything' via the numerous investigations undertaken (didn't pursue all leads, buried their heads in the sand, and basically sugar coated everything).

Voters will remember this fact during the current election cycle of 2018, as well as the upcoming 2020 elections and will vote these very partisan, crime syndicate family and their cohorts out of office. Mueller will continue to pursue and convict those guilty of various infractions of the law, and get this, we've probably only seen the tip of the iceberg so far.

[Gothmog]

3. trump has bad attorneys

[Stuart G]

4. Yes, "Trump has bad attorneys." As bad as they are..Trump is much worse..(in my opinion)nt.

[90-percent]

5. Any lawyer that represents Trump

has a fool for a client.

-90% Jimmy