At an en banc hearing before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, Trump lawyer William Consovoy said if the President shot someone on Fifth Avenue in New York City, he would be immune from criminal investigation. I was not there, but am sure Judge Denny Chin was not impressed by that assertion. There is limited
There are various whistle blower statutes that apply to federal and state employees. The federal intelligence community has a unique statute. A whsitle blower in the intelligence community can make an anonymous complaint. A whistle blower in the intelligence community has complaiend that Pres. Trump has committed certain acts. Those acts, if committed by an
A school board in San Fransisco has voted to spend $600,000 to remove a mural painted during the Depression by Victor Arnautoff, a Russian immigrant and the most important muralist in the Bay area at the time. It was a WPA project. The WPA commissioned fine public art all across the country during the Depression.
Yes, some lawyers have a conscience. Like the “Saturday night massacre” a generation ago, Pres. Trump fired Sally Yates, the acting Attorney General because she refused to defend a questionable ban on travel for seven Moslem countries. See one description of the Saturday Night Massacre in 1973 here. Elliot Richardson and William Ruckleshaus refused