"By leaving the Senate chamber to do that and effectively circumventing the ruling of the chief justice, Paul certainly lost the shield of the speech and debate clause," Tribe told Salon by email. "This was not the first time that Paul has tried to publicly name the purported whistleblower. "I hope nobody will even consider that, but at the same time if you're accused of a crime in our country, the Sixth Amendment says that you get the right to defend yourself and confront your accusers. "I say tonight to the media, do your job and print (their) name. SALON ® is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as a trademark of Salon.com, LLC. But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi pushed back against that notion on Thursday. "So I'm aware of political violence, and I think it would be terrible," he said. But he didn't use a name that night. At a Trump 2020 rally in …
Rand Paul should be arrested and prosecuted today. "Two experts on whistleblower protection law say there's little that Paul did for which he can be punished.Dan Meyer, an expert on the rules protecting whistleblowers in the intelligence community, said there are essentially no penalties for Paul's actions especially since he repeated a name that the radio host had already revealed.There’s also no general rule barring most senators from disclosing the name of the whistleblower.
Paul, Kentucky's junior senator, has fiercely defended the president since the inquiry began.He kicked things up a notch at a Trump rally in Lexington last week, when he demanded that the media print the whistleblower's name.Trump was in town to support Gov.
"After Chief Justice John Roberts blocked a question from Paul that named the alleged whistleblower from being read on the Senate floor on Thursday, "I don't know who the whistleblower is. "Nobody should have the right to endanger whistleblowers. But Paul also was criticized for demanding that the whistleblower be identified publicly.
He illegally left the Senate Chamber to give a press briefing where he committed the crime of naming a whistleblower … “Whether or not (they're) the whistleblower, I think will be determined when (that person) comes in to interview.”Regardless, he said he thinks this individual should be brought in as a “material witness.”When asked if he thought publicly identifying the whistleblower might be dangerous and could discourage other federal workers from coming forward with concerns in the future, Paul said he does think whistleblowers should be protected. Paul said that person "needs to be pulled in for testimony" to clarify whether they are indeed the whistleblower.
Harvard Law School professor Laurence Tribe told Salon on Thursday that any legal protection Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., may have had in his attempts to out the alleged whistleblower at the center of President Donald Trump's impeachment scandal was lost following a controversial press conference. Paul was sworn in on January 5, 2011, along with his father, who was simultaneously in the House of Representatives. On Tuesday, Senator Rand Paul read a question on the floor of the Senate that outed the alleged Ukraine whistleblower. President Donald Trump "has great courage" and "faces down the fake media every day," said Sen. Rand Paul (R–Ky.) on Monday. And the American people understand that. "Rarely does one have what amounts to a ruling by the chief justice of the United States that something is outside the official legislative business of Congress! "My question is not about the whistleblower.
"The crowd cheered. The move flies in the face of Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, who previously blocked Paul's question.