How can you tell when a politician is lying? I’m sure you’ve all heard the joke, “How can you tell when a politician is lying?” The answer, of course, is: “When their lips are moving!”
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When is it okay for a lawyer to lie? Everyone knows that lawyers are not allowed to lie — to clients, courts or third parties. But once you get beyond deliberate false statements, the scope of the obligations to truth and integrity become less clear. What about reckless and negligent statements that are false?
Lying in politics is as much a part of history as it is part of just about any political campaign. And the sad reality is it’s perfectly legal. In April of this year, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that politicians can lie during political campaigns. In Susan B. Anthony List v.
Without a federal law to the contrary, this precedent essentially became law. Fact checking, in other words, is up to the voter, not the courts. If you think a politician is lying to you, then you are free not to vote for that politician.
A: The lawyer should ask the judge to excuse her from answering because of her confidentiality obligations to her client. Roiphe said this question brings up the intersection or tension of a lawyer’s obligation to tell the truth or not to make a false statement and their obligation to confidentiality to their client.
Initially, the prosecution cannot locate the complainant, but eventually it does and the prosecutor announces, “ready for trial” and the case is marked trial-ready. Over the next two months, the prosecutor and defense counsel negotiate a guilty plea. The defendant accepts the plea offer.
A: No, because the witness’ death was not exculpatory, and therefore the prosecutor had no constitutional, statutory or ethical duty of disclosure. Roiphe said that in the actual case the court concluded no, and added that for her the issue is one of deceit.
The defendant’s mother told the defense lawyer that her son would likely not make it to court the next day, as he had just left the house “high as a kite.”. Drug use would violate a term of the defendant’s pretrial release. When the defendant is absent from court the next day, the judge asks defense counsel, “Do you have any information about why ...
Answer: No, because although lawyers may not generally use deceit to gather evidence, lawyers and their agents may pretend to be ordinary customers in order to gather evidence of ongoing wrongdoing. The court said there is a tradition here of lawyers either engaging in or supervising investigators to engage in a certain amount ...
To quote from the Gabler piece again, “What this means is that our politics is no longer politics in the traditional sense of policy and governance. It is, as most of us realize, a show, a game, an ongoing reality TV saga.”. It’s a situation that shows no sign of changing during this election, or others yet to come.
Without a federal law to the contrary, this precedent essentially became law. Fact checking, in other words, is up to the voter, not the courts. If you think a politician is lying to you, then you are free not to vote for that politician.
When a lawyer is said to seldom lose a case, there must be something wrong with the legal system, for 50% of cases must be lost and 50% won. The lawyer’s truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency. As a public interest lawyer, your fund of injustice will never be empty.
Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice. Only lawyers have the ability to lie even when they know the whole truth. Only lawyers can write on 500 pages and call it a summary. Lawyers have feelings too. (Allegedly)