Book Review A Case for the American People: The United States v. Donald J. Trump by Norman Eisen, Esq. Reviewed by Roger Bennet Adler
As the coronavirus pandemic rages, and the American death toll steadily climbs to a jaw-dropping 200,000 (and showing no end in sight), it is jarring to recall that the American governmental system recently went through the tectonic Senate impeachment trial resulting in President Trump’s acquittal, largely along partisan political lines.
Roger Bennet Adler is a Manhattan based solo practitioner, former Chair of the New York State Bar Association Criminal Justice Section, and a Past President of the Brooklyn Bar Association and Kings County Criminal Bar Association.
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Norm Eisen, Esq., is a Washington, D.C. legal insider with an impressive career path and a progressive political pedigree, which includes service as Ambassador to the Czech Republic during the Obama Administration, and now “Senior Fellow” in Governance Studies at the prestigious Brookings Institution. When House Judicial Chair Congressman Jerrold Nadler hired Eisen, he made a prudent pick, which soon spawned an early impeachment initiative which targeted the President’s political fate in a manner which some will perceive as disconcerting as when then Attorney General Robert Kennedy targeted labor union leaders, or when
President Nixon crafted his “enemies list.” Regardless of one’s initial take, it is unquestionable that President Trump impulsively and reflexively launched a series of actions – some charged, others ignored – which betrayed a little short of shocking ignorance of leadership protocols, and the Rule of Law. Daily dissembling, and a myriad of tweets and message “walk backs,” soon disturbingly revealed an uncontrollable President for whom truth (like beauty) exists in the eye of the beholder. While
Atticus | Volume 33 Number 1 | Winter 2021 | New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
