A Conversation with Jill Wine-Banks, Assistant Special Prosecutor for the Watergate Trial.

Autor: Walck, Pamela E.
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Zdroj: American Journalism; Fall2022, Vol. 39 Issue 4, p543-559, 17p
Abstrakt: And then, of course, Ford pardoned him, after sending him with - the young lawyer who was sent to San Clemente to deliver the offer of pardon, had to bring with him a copy of the [1915 US Supreme Court] case [ I Burdick v. United States i ] that says, "If you accept a pardon, you are admitting guilt", because Ford wanted to be sure that Nixon understood that. She was the only woman among the three lead attorneys investigating Nixon's attorney general, chief of staff, and chief domestic adviser, prompting Judge John Sirica to call her the "lawyer lady" and the national press to characterize her as the "miniskirted attorney." [James filed a lawsuit against Donald Trump and the Trump organization, including Trump's children, for engaging in financial fraud for economic gain.] But I would say that some of the people involved - Daniel Goldman [the former assistant US attorney who prosecuted Trump in his first impeachment case] and other people involved in the Trump investigations, the impeachments, Russia, all of that - were like we were. Jill Wine-Banks appears regularly on MSNBC as a legal analyst, commenting on the January 6 riot and the administration of President Donald Trump based on her experiences as an assistant special prosecutor in the obstruction-of-justice trial of President Richard Nixon's top aides. [Extracted from the article]
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