A SLAM-DUNK analysis as you'll ever see (by David Luban, top legal ethics scholar).
On left:
House Republican subcommittee report and ethics complaint against Liz Cheney "quoting" DC Bar Rule.
On right:
The actual Rule. Including the crucial text subcommittee report and ethics complaint OMIT.
On left:
House Republican subcommittee report and ethics complaint against Liz Cheney "quoting" DC Bar Rule.
On right:
The actual Rule. Including the crucial text subcommittee report and ethics complaint OMIT.
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Lunatics all of them!
I suspect Donald's other critics will face similar issues (oh, did we omit that? Oops. Oh well, we'll have the FBI investigate anyway 🤷♂️).
Luban: "The effect is to create a public show that may well serve political purposes, but should be a complete nonstarter under any bona fide legal review."
Luban is University Professor and Professor of Law and Philosophy at Georgetown, and Class of 1984 Distinguished Chair in Ethics at the U.S. Naval Academy.
https://www.justsecurity.org/106004/ethics-complaint-cheney-hutchinson/
Rule 4.2 of the D.C. Bar's Rules of Professional Conduct commands that "a lawyer shall not communicate"