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For Law Day (today!), I urged on @just_security "a vision of law that’s about not just skill but also virtue," & I shared concerns about what's missing in the Trump era.
Here are key points. /1 justsecurity.org/69971/law-day-…
"Kennedy knew it all was fundamentally wrong. Still, he chose to go along, hoping someone else would do the right thing. He made that choice despite knowing he’d soon be stepping down from the court, with this his last chance to do the right thing." /2 justsecurity.org/69971/law-day-…
"There were lawyers inside the White House who tried to bury the smoking gun record of Trump’s phone call with Ukraine’s president on a server typically reserved for the most highly classified documents." /3 justsecurity.org/69971/law-day-…
"There were lawyers inside DOJ who tried to bury the whistleblower complaint sparked by that call even though the IC's inspector general had deemed the complaint both 'credible' & 'urgent' &, in turn, required by federal law to be shared with Congress." /4 justsecurity.org/69971/law-day-…
"There were lawyers inside the White House who declared war on impeachment & refused to share any materials or make available any witnesses as the House exercised a power to consider impeachment explicitly assigned to it in the Constitution." /5 justsecurity.org/69971/law-day-…
"These incidents, in which legal positions yield unjust results, should concern us this Law Day. In each of these cases, the challenges to the rule of law have been compounded by other lawyers making similarly regrettable choices." /6 justsecurity.org/69971/law-day-…
"This Law Day, let’s of course cheer the many lawyers fighting for the rule of law in the United States & beyond. But let’s also make clear that the majesty of law is not merely a matter of skill—it’s also a matter of virtue." /END justsecurity.org/69971/law-day-…
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