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6 legal questions arising from James Comey's testimony - ABC News

posted onJune 11, 2017
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Article snippet: President Trump's conduct and the future of the Russia election meddling investigation. Here's what legal experts told ABC News. Legal experts are split. "Insofar as Trump intended to shut down an ongoing valid investigation of possible wrongdoing by his close advisers -- all of which should be clear to any objective observer -- I think it amounts to obstruction of justice in both the legal and lay sense of the term," said Peter Schuck, a professor at Yale Law School. "His constant calls and entreaties to Comey seem like efforts to intimidate and interfere, another element of obstruction of justice." David B. Rivkin Jr., an attorney with Baker & Hostetler LLP in Washington, disagrees: "Nothing that Comey said lays out an obstruction of justice case against President Trump. All of the things that Comey mentioned -- the President asking Comey for loyalty, asking him to publicly confirm that Trump wasn't a target of any Link to the full article to read more

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