Bill, I've been reading articles in the Washington Post about how professors at his school, George Washington Univ., are furious at his selling himself as some sort of constitutional/impeachment scholar. He is no such thing. Turley is an average, pedestrian law professor who has a knack for getting himself in the news. For years, he has been leading the fight for some residents in Washington state to fight the Hanford nuclear power plant. He's a nemesis of the federal government and military on that, but no one should mistaken him for a scholar. You'll find that the real experts on these matters are not the Jonathan Turleys, Paul Rothsteins, and Michael Beschlosses of the world who know how to schmooze news producers and give quotable soundbites, they are the behind-the-scenes movers and shakers who have written about and thought about impeachment like Larry Tribe of Harvard (who unfortunately is just a classier media whore; i.e. he only appears on Charlie Rose and other PBS shows), Raoul Berger, Louis Henkin, and Henry Monahan of Columbia, Charles Black of Yale, and Yale Kamisar at Michigan. Turley is a lightweight with a contrary opinion. Hey, maybe I can get on TV too!
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