White House Counsel Pat Cipollone last week sent an angry letter to four prominent House Democrats — including Speaker Nancy Pelosi — attacking their impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump. Legal experts have been tearing that letter apart, including conservative attorney George Conway— who denounced Cipollone’s arguments as “garbage” during an appearance on former federal prosecutor Preet Bharara’s podcast. And prominent legal scholar Ilya Somin has been highly critical of the letter as well, posting on Facebook that his “initial reaction” was “to wonder whether the White House counsel was sick the day they taught law at law school.”
Somin added, “Yes, it’s that bad. If one of my students made those arguments in a paper, I don’t think I could give that person a passing grade.”
Somin is by no means a Democratic Party operative. A law professor at George Mason University, Somin is a right-wing libertarian who has been active in the Cato Institute (a libertarian think tank) and holds many conservative views.
View the complete October 15 article by Alex Henderson on the AlterNet website here.
