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A Grand Notion For Power-Center Lawyers, Porcher L. Taylor Iii
A Grand Notion For Power-Center Lawyers, Porcher L. Taylor Iii
School of Professional and Continuing Studies Faculty Publications
Like leaders of so many administrations before them, Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton, both lawyers, surrounded themselves with an inner circle composed mainly of lawyers-turned-political advisers and policy bureaucrats.
Some would argue that lawyers and politics are a bad brew. But lawyers trust lawyers so much that some will steadfastly defend their political bosses, even if that means being key players in the potential cover-up of a crime. In their skewed minds, accusations of crimes by leaders of the opposing political party are merely biased power politics.