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I find it sad, although not particularly surprising, that being a former prosecutor is generally seen as a negative in the Democratic primary. Done properly, it’s an honorable and critically important job.
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To those who take issue with my premise: this may not be an issue for most moderate Democrats, but many on the further left (who are vocal and active in the primaries) have an issue with prosecutors, by definition. We're kidding ourselves if we think it's not an issue.
This is a common refrain on the left. The question, "Can you be a good person and a good prosecutor" was thought to be sufficiently legitimate to be the title of a law review article in a major journal. (BTW, the author's answer was: probably not.)

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Questions for those who argue that charging the president with obstruction of justice for an executive act like firing the FBI director or shutting down an investigation into his own misconduct would impermissibly infringe on his "constitutional authority." 1/
The Speech or Debate clause in Article I provides that for purely legislative acts a Member of Congress "shall not be questioned in any other place." That's an explicit grant of immunity, and demonstrates the framers knew to grant such immunity. 2/
It would have been a simple matter for the framers to include similar immunity for the President in Art. II - "For any exercise of Executive authority under this Constitution, the President shall not be questioned in any other place." Why didn't they? 3/
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Randall Eliason
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Just for fun - a Saturday morning thread on cross examination 101, for witness William Barr.

"Mr Barr, you said during your press conference on April '8 that the White House "fully cooperated' with the special counsel investigation." 1/
"You'd agree that the president is in charge of the White House, correct?" 2/
"And you know that the president, after months of saying he'd be happy to speak with the special counsel under oath, declined to be interviewed, correct?" 3/
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Randall Eliason
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It's wrong to claim that the end of the Mueller probe with no more indictments is a "win" for Trump. First, if Trump "won" it implies that Mueller "lost." But white collar prosecutors don't "lose" if they investigate and conclude charges are not justified. 1/
Unlike in a violent crime or other case where it's clear a crime has been committed and the question is who did it, in white collar it's usually clear who did it and the prosecutor's job is to determine whether it was a provable crime at all. Sometimes the answer is "no." 2/
That doesn't mean the prosecutor has "lost," he/she has done the job exactly as required. If "winning" meant getting an indictment, that's easy to do for a prosecutor with bad motives. Trump is lucky this investigation was done by a pro and not by a political hack. 3/
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