And if she hadn’t defended her client they would have excoriated her about that. When you become a conservative you are required to lose your soul and all regard for honesty or honor.
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In 1998 when President Clinton was being persecuted in the right-wing press HRC called it a “vast right-wing conspiracy” and those doing the persecuting laughed and called it nothing more than her paranoia. The conspirators have been going after President Obama ever since he became a prominent national figure and they will continue to hound HRC. I see a vast right wing conspiracy at times as well, and that is the one currently being conducted to get this country back into Iraq.
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It’ll soon devolve to “the hag cackles.” They’ve vowed to not go to pejoratives until she announces her candidacy.
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Don’t forget to thank FreedomWorks and the Dick Armey…they did the deed.
Actually from my perspective this story is good for Hillary. It is nice to know that she actually practiced law and worked with regular people before becoming part of an elite political power couple.
I am concerned that she might have shared confidential information, but since the represenation is part of her memior I suspect she obtained the appropriate consents.
Yes, I’m sure there are scores of oppo research goons trolling through every scrap they can find about Hillary. Then they commiserate on how to twist it or just outright lie about it to turn it into a smear.
It heartens me to see such weak sauce trotted out this early. It means they’re already scraping the bottom of the barrel.
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Ha! They rewrite the past to superimpose their own fears and goblins. Obvious case of projection.
They are saving the Socks the Cat scandal for a time closer to the election. MARK MY WORDS!
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I did really well on my legal ethics exam, so let me try this out: I’m not sure about this breach of attorney-client confidentiality angle. Not all communications between attorney and client are privileged. The fact that she had her client submit to a polygraph test and pass might be privileged as work product, but I assume she eagerly shared the results of that polygraph test with the prosecution - at which point it is no longer privileged work product.
Anyone disagree?
I can’t prove it scientifically, but I doubt this story will add or subtract one vote for her.
The anti-Hillary derangement syndrome has the same origin as the Obama derangement syndrome – that is, in irrational hatred that is more cultural than political in origin if I were to parse the two.
The average person has no concept of the ethics surrounding criminal defense. I have only a vague idea myself. Both my daughter and son-in-law are criminal defense attorneys. Maybe I can learn something by osmosis and just hangin’ around with them.
gigs:
Maybe they never heard of Gideon v. Wainwright (1963).
I shudder to think what poor defendants did for a defense before that case. As as young man, just the thought of ever being charged with something criminal terrified me because I knew that my parents were too poor to afford a lawyer.
Yes, I know that in many states, court-appointed lawyers do a perfunctory job and just “plead out” the indigent clients, 90% + look to plead guilty anyway.
There is a duty to defend since all individuals —guilty or innocent-- have a right to a lawyer in the American system but commutation is optional. No one has a right to have a sentence commuted. It rested solely in the discretion of Governor Huckebee.
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In trying to show how callous Hillary Clinton is, right wing manipulators prove once again they have no deep and abiding concern for anyone or anything, except trashing HRC.
when will democrats understand that Hillary is not the best candidate - she believes in nothing. I would prefer joe biden at least he cares and can speak to the middle class and poor
I’m guessing their goal is to unload a metric ton of tiny “scandals” that Clinton supposedly committed, so that when compared against just one single scandal like Bridgegate, dumb voters will think both politicians are crooked.
This seems to be the latest tactic of the right – go after lawyers who have defended unsympathetic clients in the course of their careers. We’ve seen them do this only recently to Debo Adegbile, who was nominated to head up the DOJ’s Civil Rights division. It is absolutely antithetical to what our whole adversarial justice system is supposed to be about.
I am sure that as a lawyer, Hillary Clinton would have done what the code of ethics required - provide a zealous defense of her client. And like most criminal defense attorney, she would have put the credibility of a 12-year old girl to the test. Instead she negotiated a plea bargain that kept the girl off the stand and out of the limelight. Was she right? Absolutely, she protected the child and she put the client behind bars rather than have to defend him against a heinous charge that she would have found personally repugnant. I am not supporter of Hillary Clinton, but she did the right thing in this case.
The fact that the GOP and the Free Beacon choose to make this a political football is not unexpected, and the fact that they have again twisted audio to suit their own needs if also not surprising. When you have nothing to offer, you go on the attack and turn truth into lies.
One of Clinton’s biggest failings is her inability to talk off script, and she often laughs at times when it would seem inappropriate. Until she learns that the media is always going to parse her words and her actions, and find fault, she should not consider re-entering the political arena.
She is not a woman who should sit in the White House, and sadly, she was strongest in the Senate, but her ambition (or perhaps her husband’s ambitions since they seem irrevocably linked) has led her down a path where she will be useless, even harmful, to the American people and our country. Making deals in a court of law to protect an innocent victim is one thing and explainable, advocating for war in Libya or Somalia or Syria is quite another. Protecting bankers and corporate CEOs who rape this nation as the price for election is what has led this nation to the precipice, and she has done that her whole political life. So her past in protecting rapists from long sentences and her counsel to the Waltons and Wal-Mart as well as Whitewater will all be things that the GOP will use against her, and if she is unprepared to answer to the American people about these kinds of things, then she has a serious problem.