Former U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama Joyce Vance joined approximately 500 other lawyers in signing a letter saying they believe President Donald Trump committed obstruction of justice and would have been charged had he not been president of the United States.
Labeling themselves “DOJ Alumni,” the group alleges that the Mueller report provided evidence of “corrupt intent” on Trump’s part, which they deemed as “overwhelming.”
Posted on the left-leaning website Medium.com, the letter states:
Each of us believes that the conduct of President Trump described in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report would, in the case of any other person not covered by the Office of Legal Counsel policy against indicting a sitting President, result in multiple felony charges for obstruction of justice.
Vance, a law professor at the University of Alabama Culverhouse School of Law, has long been a vocal critic of Trump.
Last year, she blamed Trump for bombs mailed to the Obama and Clinton families. Obama nominated Vance to her former position as U.S. Attorney in 2009.
More recently, Vance relied upon her foreign policy credentials to criticize Trump’s stance toward Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
We must get a readout of Trump & Putin’s call. Trump is unfit if there was anything less than firm adherence to the Mueller Report findings on Russia’s crimes & demands the activity cease. And when has Trump ever stood up to Putin?
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) May 3, 2019
Tim Howe is an owner and editor of Yellowhammer News
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