Recently in It’s Mueller Time!,” I discussed the Meuller Report’s treatment of the issue of whether President Trump or his campaign criminally conspired with the Russians during the 2016 campaign (“Russian Collusion”). I relied on Attorney General William Barr’s summary of the principal conclusions of the report. Since then the full report with very limited required…
Month: May 2019
What’s Wrong With The U.S. Attorney’s Indictment Of Judge Joseph And How To Fix It
WGBH News Opinion Andrew Lelling, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, triggered a political firestorm almost a month ago when he obtained an indictment of Newton District Court Judge Shelley Joseph on obstruction charges. Although I disagree with Joseph’s decision to release Jose Medina-Perez, a noncitizen who had entered the United States illegally,…
Rife with strife at Harvard
Boston Globe Letter, May 7, 2019 It’s not nice of me, but I cannot help expressing a little schadenfreude at the pass to which Harvard has brought itself over a law professor’s defense of Harvey Weinstein (“A house divided at Harvard,” Page A1, May 5). The old verities, like the value of a lawyer defending…
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