LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – Serious constitutional issues are raised by the conviction of I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby according to a dozen prominent legal scholars, as Jurist reports.
A dozen prominent legal scholars submitted an amicus curiae brief on behalf of former vice-presidential aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby Thursday, arguing that Libby’s conviction could be overturned on appeal because the appointment of Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald raises serious constitutional issues involving the separation of powers. The legal scholars, including Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz and conservative legal scholar and former Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork, say that “with no supervisor, [Fitzgerald] is too independent to make his supposed ‘superiors’ politically accountable for his actions” because the independent prosecutor could not be supervised by the executive branch short of being removed by the US Department of Justice.
