I am joined by my colleague paul clement its good to see you. Likewise it is good to see you. We served as Solicitor Generals Office during past transition so we should probably start by digging in a little bit what is happening on that front and how this transition might be different than past transitions. Maybe we will talk about the specific cases that could be impacted by the change in the administration. And given there is another impeachment trial about to begin maybe we should talk about thatouri also. Would you mind introducing yourself to the audience . I would be happy to. I will spare you the biography and just talk about two things that are relevant for todays presentation. First is the georgetown connection both m eo and undergrad and somebody who has been teaching at the law school since the clinton impeachment thats my first started teaching separation ofol power at the law school so that affiliation runs deep and i am delighted to be here. The second aspect of my bio th
Priorities in the first hundred days. My name is neil and i am joined by my colleague paul. Paul, always good to see you. Likewise neil, great to see you. It will be fun. We both served in the Solicitor Generals Office during past transitions i think we should probably start by digging in a little bit on to what is happening in the front and how this transition might be different than past transitions. Maybe we will talk about specific cases that could be impacted by the change in the administration and you know, i think given that there is another impeachment trial about to begin maybe we should talk a little bit about that too. Maybe before getting into that carl, would you just mind introducing yourself to the audience. Sure, i would be happy to neil. Im paul clement and i will talk about two things that are relevant for todays presentation. First, just the georgetown connection. I am both a georgetown undergrad and somebody who has been teaching at the law school in various capacit
Federer announces he wont play at the french open thats after the 20 time grand slam champion reveals he has undergone surgery. Is President Donald Trump says his longtime adviser roger stone has a very good chance of exoneration after he was sentenced to 3 years and 4 months in prison story was convicted last year of lying to congress witness tampering and obstructing the investigation into russian interference in the 26000 president ial election prosecutors originally recommended a sentence of up to 9 years in jail that was later reversed by the Justice Department after the president publicly he complained the president has responded to a sentencing accusing the jury foreman of being anti trump and tainting the case this is a woman who was in person totally now i dont know if this is a fact but she had a horrible social media account the things she said on the account were unbelievable she didnt reveal that when she was chosen. And shes i guess from what i hear a very strong woman a
Levels, it tends to hurt the person, who is sort of more guilty in terms of proof. The psychology of that is fantastic. Now i wanted to ask you, now that youve had a little bit of a chance to chew on this. If you feel like if there is anything particularly problematic controversial, or anything that feels like an overreach in his indictment that might be vulnerable, in terms of people challenging the prosecution . No, right now it looks strong and we focused on the statement at the Press Conference about 19 defendants being tried together and i think that is controversial. And i dont think will happen but that is under the indictment itself. Really the issue is that there were 19 defendants. And the thing about 19 defendants is that there is a lot of opportunities for cooperation. And weve already talked about. Rudy giuliani being somebody who might flip. Indeed, the whole doctrine and the conspiracy doctrine is written to encourage people to flip. And when rico was enacted. 50 years a
Operation but especially joe biden. Because today, he announced the appointment of a Special Counsel to investigate possible hunter biden crimes, but, of course, he made no mention of president joe biden. Instead of appointing someone from outside of the government to lead this investigation, by law by the way is recommended under regulation 28 csr 600. 3 thanks to Gregg Jarrett, Merrick Garland waved his magic wand and promoted david weiss, the same federal prosecutor, the one whos been slowwalking the criminal probe into hunter biden for several years. Hes the guy that allowed the Statute Of Limitations to expire on multiple major felonies before, of course, then trying to put together that sweetheart, you know, little deal with hunter, no jail time, and tie it up with a neat little bow and, you know, cover it all up, a Sweetheart Deal that no one else would get. That, of course, rejected by the federal judge who thankfully, in delaware, actually read the fine print in this. It was a