Government,
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Mar. 2, 2020
Legal ethics: Rules for government lawyers as ‘gatekeepers’
Is the role of the attorney general “being an ‘attorney for the president or the country’”?
A. Marco Turk
Emeritus Professor
CSU Dominguez Hills
Email: amarcoturk.commentary@gmail.com
A. Marco Turk is a contributing writer, professor emeritus and former director of the Negotiation, Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding program at CSU Dominguez Hills, and currently adjunct professor of law, Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law.
The current heated controversy ignited over the political operative Roger Stone case, regarding the alleged infusion of politics in the handling of high-profile prosecutions affecting how the Department of Justice performs its duties, once again has rattled our system of “justice.” Searching for clarification of this serious political conflict discloses a relevant discussion of the problem as far back as 2008: Is the role of the attorney general “being an ‘attorney fo...
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