among the reasons put forward to impeach trump is that he asked a foreign government to investigate a political rooiiva joe biden, but is there ever an example where a president is justified to do so. and if he truly believed a crime was committed is he in the wrong to pursue it? joining us now is a professor at ohio state university s loot where he directs the election law program. he clerked for supreme court justice harry blackman and wrote this piece in politico. is it ever okay for a president to ask a foreign country to investigate a political rival. i want to drill down on the specific legal issue that could confront the senate. i would point out that section
and after serving in the army air corps in world war ii, he clerked for supreme court justice felix frankfurter as an attorney. he co-authored the legal brief in brown versus board of education which held school segregation to be unconstitutional and struck down the discredited notion of separate but equal. and through a long career in the law and in public service, bill coleman played a role in republican administrations from president eisenhower through president ford for whom he served as the first african-american cabinet member in a republican administration. president bill clinton awarded secretary coleman the presidential medal of freedom. william t. coleman jr. he was 97.
harvard law school. and after serving in the army air corps in world war ii, he clerked for supreme court justice felix frankfurter as an attorney. he co-authored the legal brief in brown versus education which held school segregation to be unconstitutional and struck down the discredited notion of separate but equal. and through a long career in the law and in public service, bill coleman played a role in republican administrations from president eisenhower through president ford for kwhom he served as the first african-american cabinet member in a republican administration. president bill clinton awarded sblth coleman the presidential medal of freedom. william t. coleman jr. he was 97.
role in her story, because she joined the law school faculty in 1999 after the republican senate failed to take up her nomination to the federal appeals court in d.c. she became the dean of the law school at harvard in 2003. she also taught at the university of chicago, alongside professor barack obama. and before that, she clerked for supreme court justice thurgood marshall. she was a domestic policy aide to president clinton. and under president obama she was the first woman solicitor general of the united states. that s the person who represents the u.s. government in arguments at the supreme court. so she s familiar with the supreme court. now, one job that you didn t see listed in everything i just told you, you might look at that and say, wow, she is supremely qualified for this. she s never been a judge. supreme court justices do not have to be judges. if elena kagan is confirmed, she will be the first non-judge justice since 1972. now, whether that is a plus or a
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