This is unequal at the start. And there's no outside context. I can't emphasize enough how unusual it is to simply have people, you know, confront their accuser with no other evidence other than essentially their own words.
Gertner discusses the imbalance in the hearing process without an investigation or additional witnesses.
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But what's troubling is the not so much the fact that the jury reached this verdict, but the implications of it.
the classified information that is being described is not and can't possibly be shielded by executive privilege. In other words, he didn't have a right to have it, he didn't have a right to have it in his beach house.
this was a move that, in my view, is so far from constitutional that no judge worthy of their name would ever rule in a different direction.
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