Ron Fein & Laurence Tribe In The Boston Globe: House Should Expand the Scope of Its Impeachment Inquiry To Include Trump’s Abuse Of the Pardon Power Posted on October 23, 2019 (June 12, 2020) Impeachment In a recent Boston Globe piece FSFP Legal Director Ron Fein and Harvard Law School professor Laurence Tribe make a strong case for broadening the scope of the ongoing impeachment inquiry to include Donald Trump’s abuse of the pardon power. Citing Trump’s unlawful pardon of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio in 2017, they argue thatRead More
Abusing the Pardon Power: From Joe Arpaio to the Latest Revelations About Trump’s Lawyer Posted on June 13, 2019 Challenging Corruption The connection between disgraced former Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio and disgraced former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn may not be immediately obvious. But we predicted it in 2017. The New York Times recently reported that Special Counsel Mueller’s team uncovered a voicemail from Trump’s lawyer, John Dowd, to Flynn’s lawyer. The message isRead More
WaPo: Federal judge refuses to erase Joe Arpaio’s conviction despiteTrump pardon Posted on October 21, 2017 (October 24, 2017) On Thursday, October 19, A Federal Judge shot down former sheriff Joe Arpaio’s bid to sweep his criminal record clean. Read More