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Calls for Pat Cipollones Disbarment Swell After Brazen Lack of Candor During Impeachment Trial
by Colin Kalmbacher | 5:31 pm, January 22nd, 2020
Pat Cipollone, President Donald Trumps lead defense attorney in the Senate impeachment trial, lied to lawmakers and the world during his opening remarks on Tuesday. Now, people are calling for Cipollone to be be disbarred.
Not even Mr. [Adam] Schiffs Republican colleagues were allowed into the SCIF, Cipollone said.
A SCIF is essentially a place where purportedly classified information is relayed to interested and acceptable parties. The acronym stands for Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility. But, contrary to Cipollones assertion, Republicans were regularly allowed into the SCIF while members of the House Intelligence, Oversight and Foreign Affairs Committees heard impeachment witness testimony last year. Members from both sides of the aisle, and counsel for each party, were also allowed to ask the witnesses questions behind closed doors.
Outrage about Cipollones inaccurate statement went viral and many critics were quick to call for the credential-surrendering version of the White House counsels head.
Progressive Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) called out Cipollones subterfuge via Twitter.
Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe echoed Raskins criticism and explicitly called for Cipollone to lose his license.
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shanti
(21,675 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,675 posts)Woodycall
(259 posts)An iron fist cloaked in the velvet glove if civility.
live love laugh
(13,231 posts)TruckFump
(5,812 posts)I've done a lot of trial work in my day and the facts of who was investigating the matter and how the investigation was being conducted is Trial Prep 101. Anyone defending a case looks fully and clearly at the prosecution's investigation to see where the faults and weaknesses can be found. It's a knee-jerk reaction.
I highly doubt that Cipollone was "winging it" and simply did not know the mechanics of the process by which the House arrived at the Articles. No one who has any experience believes everything his or her client says UNLESS the facts support the client's statements and, thus, defense counsel had to examine the client's statements against the truth of the matter. Cipollone had to know that Trump's allegations of basically being barred from the investigation was total bullshit.
IMO, it simply was NOT a mistake on his part -- Cipollone knowingly misrepresented the facts of the matter to the tribunal before which he was appearing. If not grounds for disbarment, it is most certainly grounds for significant discipline by his licensing bar.
TruckFump
(5,812 posts)ancianita
(36,243 posts)This lie cannot stand. It's how we got here -- lies by lawyers. Everyone in the chatting classes prefers to call them "misrepresentations" or whatever. But they are what they are -- lies. There is NO white lie or "misrepresentation" that should be ignored in a trial for the very existence of rule of law.
Even if the issue sounds like "the perfect being the enemy of the good," there is only the call to the highest standards in a profession that is, right now, influencing whether we even keep this Republic or lose it to dictatorship.
Cipollone, Sekulow, Eisenberg, Barr and Giuliani and so many others are "rule of men" lawyers for their loyalist strong man; the "rule of law" lawyers mustmust prevail for the greater good of Western law for all of us who have future generations whose lives we care about when we're gone.
keithbvadu2
(37,066 posts)MFGsunny
(2,356 posts)He has the same non-existent relationship to the truth as MF45.
Shameful and below contempt.
Full stop.
crickets
(25,995 posts)Last edited Thu Jan 23, 2020, 01:27 AM - Edit history (1)
It's certain this won't be Cipollone's first lie, just the first one showing he expects to get away with it. He's not getting away with it unchallenged. Good.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,598 posts)I think Cipollone is testing what he can get away with, just as the Republican Senators who have vacated their seats in violation of the rules.
crickets
(25,995 posts)For now people seem to be counting their number. Naming and shaming is next, and should be loud and relentless.
Maraya1969
(22,527 posts)Sondland said that in a text but he testified, under oath to the opposite.