A day after the riot at the US Capitol, a White House lawyer advised an ally of former President Donald Trump to obtain a defense lawyer in connection with helping the Republican try to overturn the 2020 election results.
In recorded comments presented during the panel’s second pubic hearing, Barr portrayed Trump as a president who would not concede that the 2020 election was legitimate, no matter what the ex-attorney general told him.
Turley, the one expert called by Republicans, has written extensively about Trump and impeachment and has criticized Democrats for moving too quickly and being too narrowly focused in the impeachment process. Politics Newsletter Get our Essential Politics newsletter
Barr’s testimony, shown at the panel’s second public hearing detailing the findings of its probe, portrayed Trump as unwilling to believe his then-attorney general when he dismissed false claims about the election results.
In a series of feisty exchanges, Republicans sought to undermine the credibility of the three law professors requested by the committee’s Democratic majority by suggesting their analysis was politically motivated.
The Judiciary hearing started with a sharp partisan bent, with Republicans immediately demanding a vote on whether House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam B. Schiff (D-Burbank) should be required to testify.
Jonathan Turley, a professor of public interest law at George Washington University law school, found himself in a familiar place Tuesday morning: testifying before the House Judiciary Committee as part of impeachment proceedings against a president.
One of the constitutional law experts testifying before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday will tell members that President Trump’s conduct is worse than that of any prior president who faced similar proceed ings.
Pamela Karlan was tapped as principal deputy assistant attorney general in the Civil Division, the paper said, adding that she previously was a Stanford University law professor — and most recently was on Facebook's Oversight Board.
Karlan caught flak after joking about Barron Trump — who was only 13 at the time — during her 2019 testimony at Donald Trump's first impeachment trial:
Then-first lady Melania Trump called out Karlan on Twitter for her misstep: "A minor child deserves privacy and should be kept out of politics. Pamela Karlan, you should be ashamed of your very angry and obviously biased public pandering, and using a child to do it."
As you might guess, attacks on Barron Trump are nothing new for the left: