The Presidency and Criminal Investigations

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The seminar will discuss legal boundaries around criminal justice process's interaction with the White House, including larger themes about the office of the presidency and the constitutional structure of the national government. Topics include independent and special counsels and their interaction with congressional investigations; the grand jury, immunity, the Fifth Amendment privilege, and perjury/obstruction of justice; representing the president: attorney-client privilege, the White House counsel, and private defense bar; exec privilege and potential exec immunity from indictment, trial, conviction and/or sentence; pardon power; and law of impeachment.