Due Process in the Sandbox

Steve Russell
Nov 6 · 9 min read
House Impeachment Committee looking for hearing room from Pixabay

Impeachment is being obscured by politicians throwing sand.

President Donald J. Trump is not the first person with power in the federal bureaucracy to take on undermining the Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989. Litigation under that law had to be brought in the D.C. Circuit and that court has been almost uniformly hostile to whistleblowers, chipping away at a law it plainly disfavors.

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Steve Russell is enrolled Cherokee, a 9th grade dropout, retired judge, associate professor emeritus of criminal justice, and (so far) a cancer survivor.

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