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Critics of the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC), which provides legal advice to the White House and Cabinet agencies, have long argued it acts as a rubber stamp for the president and essentially drafts laws behind closed doors. The judge s accusation this week that the OLC was tasked with clearing Trump s name is only likely to increase calls for reform and greater transparency.
Ethics and transparency advocates have been calling for the office to be reformed for years, and some are hoping that the latest revelation about how it operated during the Trump administration will provide some momentum.
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“If you think of the federal government like a private client, then they go to OLC like their private attorney to make the best arguments in favor of what they want,” said Erica Newland, counsel at Protect Democracy and a former OLC attorney who has spoken out against the Trump DOJ since leaving in 2018 after joining as a career attorney in 2016.
After the Capitol riot, is it too late to save oneâs honor? | Column
Are these resignations attempts at political self-preservation or true ethical actions to awaken us to the dangers of Trump? An Eckerd professor wonders.
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President Donald Trump tours a section of the U.S.-Mexico border wall under construction on Tuesday in Alamo, Texas. [ ALEX BRANDON | AP ]
Published Jan. 12
Updated Jan. 14
How are we to understand the current rush of resignations from the Trump administration? Suddenly many individuals who for four years dutifully stood by President Donald Trump are resigning from their positions in government. The violent Trump riot and insurrection in the halls of Congress persuaded Elaine Chao, Betsy DeVos, Mick Mulvaney, Matthew Pottinger, John Costello, Tyler Goodspeed, Stephanie Grisham and many others to abandon ship.
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The White House Counsel and Trump’s Attack on the 2020 Election
The White House at night (Robert Scoble, https://www.flickr.com/photos/35034363287@N01/2617357908; CC BY 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/).
During Robert Mueller’s special counsel investigation, President Trump was famously quoted as complaining about the quality of the lawyering he was getting. To him, the notorious Roy Cohn set the gold standard: “a very loyal guy” who had been “vicious to others in his defense of me.” Trump did not believe that his White House counsel Don McGahn, much less his first attorney general, Jeff Sessions, met the loyalty test.