Delivered January 7, 2020
Open Letter to the United States Senate
Dear Members of the United States Senate:
We are lawyers deeply committed to the Constitution, the rule of law and preserving the priceless American democratic form of government.
Since the House has impeached President Donald Trump, the critical questions now are whether the Senate will provide an impartial trial process and whether senators will vote impartially or serve their own partisan self-interests.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has dramatically framed the issue. He recently said: “This [impeachment] is a political process. There is not anything judicial about it.” (See: Mitch McConnell: ‘I’m not an impartial juror’ ahead of Senate impeachment trial, CNN). “I’m not impartial about this [process] at all….I’m not an impartial juror [.]” (See: Trump Diatribe Belittles Impeachment as ‘Attempted Coup’ on Eve of Votes, The New York Times)
Leader McConnell’s assertions cannot withstand scrutiny.
Just because the Constitution commits the impeachment process to a “political” branch of government and senators may legitimately promote their partisan self-interest as part of the legislative process, does not mean they are permitted to do so when serving as judges and jurors in an impeachment trial. To the contrary, as the adjudicators of impeachment, they have a duty to serve in a quasi-judicial capacity.
The Constitution mandates that: “When sitting for that purpose [trying impeachments] they [the Senate] shall be on oath or affirmation.” (See: Const., Art. I, Sect. 3, Clause 6) The oath that the Senate requires every senator to take before being allowed to participate in an impeachment trial demands that they “solemnly swear or affirm… in all things appertaining to the trial (to) do impartial justice according to the Constitution and law.” (Emphasis added) (See: Procedure and Guidelines for Impeachment Trials in the United States Senate, pp. 25-26 & p. 61)
Serving one’s own partisan and political self-interest in determining: the process for an impeachment trial, the legal standards for impeachable offenses, the facts – based on the evidence – and whether the facts violate the standards, would be an egregious form of being “partial.” It would be the exact opposite of being “impartial.”
Rather than a Senate impeachment trial being a “political” / partisan process that permits senators to make decisions based on their political party’s self-interest, senators are obligated by the Constitution and Senate rules to “do impartial justice” in all matters relating to the trial.
Similarly, Leader McConnell’s assertion that “[t]here is not anything judicial about [the impeachment process]” is directly refuted by the Constitution. The Judiciary article itself, Article III, expressly manifests that impeachment trials are a category of federal criminal trials: “The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury [.]” (See: Const., Art. III, Sect. 2, Clause 3). Thus, impeachment trials, being criminal trials, are inherently “judicial.”
The judicial nature of impeachment trials is further borne out by other constitutional provisions. By giving “[t]he Senate… the sole power to try all impeachments [,]” (See: Const., Art. I, Sect. 3, Clause 6) the Constitution uses the same word “try” to describe the Senate’s responsibility as our legal system has routinely used to describe the function of courts adjudicating court cases.
When the President is impeached, the Constitution does not permit a senator to preside over the trial; it must be our nation’s highest judicial officer, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Id. The initial sanction required to be imposed on an official found guilty of an impeachable offense is “conviction,” (See: Const., Art. I, Sect. 3, Clause 6 and Const., Art. II, Sect. 4) which is the same initial sanction which courts impose on any guilty criminal defendant. Finally, the Constitution prescribes that when the Senate completes an impeachment trial, it needs to enter “judgment.” (See: Const., Art. I, Sect. 3, Clause 7). This is the same word our legal system uses to describe all courts’ determinations after completing trials in court cases.
Thus, the Constitution itself recognizes that a Senate impeachment trial must have multiple elements of a court trial. The significantly judicial character of the impeachment trial process mandated by the Constitution is further elaborated by the Senate’s own extensive rules for conducting impeachment trials, many of which parallel judicial proceedings. (See: Procedure and Guidelines for Impeachment Trials in the United States Senate)
In short, Leader McConnell’s notion that the impeachment process does not have judicial character and implicitly gives him and other senators free rein to conduct the trial as biased political partisans is indefensible.
To the contrary, all senators have a solemn duty to do “impartial justice” in all aspects of the impeachment trial. This includes Leader McConnell.
Will you join hundreds of other lawyers in signing this letter to the Senate?
Signed:
| Richard Abel – Connell Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus and Distinguished Research Professor |
| John Achatz – Access to Justice Fellow |
| David Addlestone – Co–founder National Veteans Legal Services Program |
| Sunil Aggarwal – CJI |
| Susan Akram – Clinical Professor |
| Steve Alexander – Former law clerk and acting District Court judge, Third Judicial District, Alaska. |
| Mary Allen Wilkes – Former Assistant District Attorney |
| Stephen Alloy – Attorney at Law |
| Birgit Almgren – Senior Associate |
| Lori Alper – Founder |
| Albert Alschuler – Julius Kreeger Professor Emeritus |
| Dan Alterman – Partner in civil rights firm |
| Michael Altman – Attorney |
| Carrie Amezcua – Attorney |
| R. Peter Anderson – Former Judge of Massachusetts Trial Court |
| Steven Andrews – Retired |
| Don Anton – Professor of International Law | Director |
| Gina Armbruster – Vice President in the Insurance Industry |
| Paula Atkinson – Attorney |
| Natasha Axelrod – Former Civil Litigation Attorney Representing Consumers |
| Harold Balcom – Attorney |
| Dennis Baldwin – Past President |
| Erica Baltodano – Attorney |
| Shaun Barnes – Choate |
| Jim Barnett – Alaska Attorney and Historian |
| Alan Baron – Former Assistant United States Attorney |
| Charles Baron – Emeritus Professor Boston College Law School |
| Dianne Baron – Attorney |
| Stuart Baron – Active practitioner |
| Jerome Barron – Harold H. Greene Professor of Law Emeritus George Washington University Law School |
| Elizabeth Barry – Former Chief Assistant Attorney General |
| Peter Barta – Criminal Defense Attorney |
| Jeffrey Bartell – Quarles & Brady Law Firm |
| Elizabeth Bartholet – Professor of Law |
| Denise Barton – Deputy General Counsel |
| Mark Baseman – Partner |
| Lynn Bechtol – Attorney |
| Marcia Bell – Director |
| Barbara Berenson – Attorney |
| James Bergenn – UConn School of Law |
| Paul Berman – Retired Partner |
| Lucian Bernard – Partner |
| Marilyn Bernhardt – Esq. |
| Peter Bernhardt – Former Assistant United States Attorney |
| Jules Bernstein – ABA |
| Michael Bertoncini – Principal in private law firm |
| Jessica Beverly – Attorney Advisor |
| Kristina Bielenberg – Attorney |
| Rebecca Birmingham – President Elect of the Long Beach Bar Association |
| Kathryn Black – Of Counsel |
| Laura Blank – Attorney |
| Jeff Blattner – Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General |
| Richard Bluestein – Krokidas and bluestein |
| Linda Bochert – Assistant Attorney General |
| Kristi Bodin – Former Assistant Attorney General |
| Kristen Bomengen – Former Assistant Attorney General |
| Kelly Bonnevie – Attorney |
| Bruce Bookman – Bookman & Helm LLC Ret. |
| Bruce Botelho – Former Attorney General of Alaska |
| Kathleen Boundy – Co–director Center for Law and Education |
| James Brennan – Brennan & Heideman |
| Israela Brill–Cass – Ombud |
| Shelley Broderick – Dean Emerita and Joseph L. Rauh Chair of Social Justice at University of the District of Columbia Law |
| Mark Brodin – Professor |
| Fiona Brophy – Partner |
| Ellen Brown – Former Counsel at a quasi–public organization |
| Melinda Brown – Former Vice President and General Counsel |
| Daniel Bruce – Attorney |
| Alan Butchman – Garvey |
| Andrea Cabral – Former Assistant District Attorney |
| Morgan Callahan – Attorney |
| Alejandro Camacho – Professor of Law |
| Margaret Cammer – Former Acting Supreme Court Justice |
| Roy Campbell – Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP |
| Paul Campsen – Kaufman & Canoles |
| Julie Cantor – Lecturer in Law |
| Patricia Cantor – Attorney |
| Cathey Caraway–Howard – Law Offices of Cathe L. Caraway–Howard |
| Jay Carlson – Attorney |
| Walter Carpeneti – Former Chief Justice |
| Charley Carpenter – Attorney |
| Harold Carroll – Attorney at Law |
| William Carroll – Former General Counsel Ballistic Missile Defense Organization |
| Cathleen Cavell – Attorney |
| Kathy Cerminara – Former associate at Reed Smith Shaw & McClay |
| Michael Chanin – Retired Member of the Bar |
| Nancy Chasen – Public Interest Advocate |
| Mark Choate – Trial Lawyer |
| Manbir Chowdhary – Principal |
| David Clark – Former partner |
| James Clark – Retired partner |
| Ben Clements – Clements & Pineault |
| Brian Clemow – Former Adjunct Professor |
| Sarah Cleveland – Professor |
| Joan Clover – Attorney |
| Kevin Clune – Legal Aid at Work |
| Nadine Cohen – Attorneys |
| Steven Cohen – President |
| Ronald Collins – Harold S. Shefelman Scholar |
| MaryBeth Connors – Attorney |
| Wendy Cooper – Attorney |
| Michael Cordone – Former partner Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young |
| Julia Coster – Former Assistant Attorney General |
| Michael Coughlin – Attorney |
| Randy Cox – Attorney |
| Gregory Craig – Former White House Counsel |
| Barbara Craver – Private Attorney |
| Glenn Cravez – Law Office of Glenn E. Cravez |
| Elizabeth Crimmins – Senior Attorney |
| Eric Croft – Former Alaska State Legislator |
| Peter Crosby – Formerly Peter J. Crosby |
| Mary Crossley – Professor of Law and former Dean |
| Michael Crutcher – Former partner |
| Stanley Cygelman – Partner |
| Hon.John D’Amico – Judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey |
| Brendan Daly – Attorney |
| Josiah Daniel – Attorney |
| Richard Dasilva – Frontier Adjusters of Bozeman |
| D.Scott Dattan – CJA Panel Representative for Alaska |
| Robin Davidson – Attorney |
| Douglas Davis – Of Counsel |
| Ann DeArmond – Attorney |
| Gill Deford – Retired Attorney |
| Robert Dell – Retired Global Chair of Latham & Watkins |
| Ruth Dell – Former Attorney |
| Mary DeNevi – Attorney |
| Ventura Dennis – Staff Attorney |
| Brad DeNoble – Attorney at Law |
| Michael Devereaux – Attorney |
| Steven DeVries – Former Chief Assistant Attorney General and Civil Division Director |
| Steven DiCairano – Associate |
| Gerald Dickinson – Law Professor |
| Joel Diringer – Public health consultant |
| Colin Diver – Adjunct Professor |
| Steven Dodge – Deputy Public Advocate |
| Mara Dolan – Attorney |
| Michael Dolinger – Former United States Magistrate Judge |
| Raymond Dougan – Retired First Justice Boston Municipal Court, Central Division; Adjunct Clinical Professor, Boston University School of Law |
| Jessica Drew – Attorney |
| Robert Drey – Legal Counsel |
| James Dreyfus – Retired Partner |
| Robert Drinan – Executive Agency Counsel at a Public Authority |
| Richard DuBey – Attorney |
| Kellie Early – National Conference of Bar Examiners |
| Peter Edelman – Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law and Public Policy |
| Jean Eggen – Distinguished Emerita Professor of Law |
| Susan Elsen – Staff Attorney |
| Edwin Epstein – Attorney |
| Ivan Espinoza–Madrigal – Attorney |
| Evan Falchuk – Attorney and Health care executive; former gubernatorial candidate for Massachusetts |
| Judith Farris Bowman – Partner |
| Heather Fathali – Immigration Attorney |
| Ellice Fatoullah – Fatoullah Associates |
| Gina Fazio – Attorney |
| Randall Fearnow – Former Indiana Senate Majority Attorney |
| Walter Featherly – Attorney At Law |
| Francis Fecteau – Associate Justice of Massachusetts Appeals Court (retired) |
| David Feinberg – Founding Partner |
| Cary Feldman – Feldesman Tucker Leifer Fidell LLP |
| Roger Feldman – Senior Principal and General Counsel |
| Sarah Felix – Former Assistant Attorney General |
| Nicholas Fels – Former partner |
| Carter Ferguson – Shareholder |
| Eugene Fidell – Feldesman Tucker Leifer Fidell LLP |
| Leslie Finlow – Lawyer in Washington |
| Daniel Finn – Law Offices of Daniel J. Finn |
| George Fisher – Attorney |
| Ruth Ellen Fitch – Attorney |
| Herb Fox – Law Office of Herb Fox |
| Michael Fox – Judge |
| Anne Fragasso – Attorney |
| Joel Franklin – Attorney |
| Elizabeth Frantz – Attorney |
| Clifford Freeman – Attorney |
| Gregory French – National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys |
| Terry Friedman – Former Los Angeles Superior Court Judge |
| Christopher Gagin – Former Magistrate |
| Emily Galvin – Public Defender |
| Patty Garin – Partner at Shapiro Weissberg & Garin; Adjunct Professor of Law at Northeastern University School of Law |
| Gayle Garrigues – Former prosecutor |
| Joseph Garrison – Garrison |
| E. Susan Garsh – Former Associate Justice of the Superior Court |
| Barbara Gately – Litigator |
| Thomas Gausden – Self–employed labor & employment arbitrator & mediator |
| Nancy Gertner – Retired Judge |
| Martha Gifford – Law Office of Martha E. Gifford |
| Oscar Gilbert – Attorney |
| Elizabeth Gilson – Guantanamo lawyer |
| Wilbur Glahn – Partner |
| David Glenn – Syndicated Radio Host |
| Richard Glovsky – Former Assiatnt United States Attorney and Chief of the Civil Division of the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts |
| Dudley Goar – Attorney |
| Sharon GoddardWhite – White White & Van Etten PC |
| Nicole Godfrey – University of Denver Sturm College of Law |
| Karen Golden – Attorney |
| Phyllis Goldfarb – Jacob Burns Foundation Professor Emerita of Clinical Law and Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs |
| Rachel Goldman – Attorney |
| Seth Goldschlager – President |
| Donna Goldsmith – Retired; Anchorage, Alaska |
| Billie Goldstein – Former Assistant Public Defender |
| Allene Golub – Law offices of Richard and Allene Golub |
| Jasmine GonzalesRose – Associate Professor of Law |
| Joan Graff – President |
| Andrew Grainger – Former Associate Justice |
| Paul Grant – National and State Affiliate Boards of Directors |
| Michael Greco – Attorney |
| Deborah Greenberg – Assistant District Attorney, Alaska/Assistant Attorney General, Alaska |
| Robert Greenwood – Attorney |
| James Griffith – Former judge |
| Randall Grometstein – Professor |
| Richard Gross – Former Executive Director |
| Joanna Grossman – Ellen K. Solender Endowed Chair in Women and Law |
| John Grossman – Former Undersecretary of Public Safety |
| Anthony Guadalupe–Baerga – |
| Patrick Gudridge – Professor |
| Robert Gunther – Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr |
| Deepak Gupta – Founding Principal |
| Jeffrey Gutman – Professor of Clinical Law |
| Ernest Haddad – General Counsel Emeritus |
| Eric Hall – Attorney |
| Philip Hamilton – Professor of Law Emeritus |
| David Hanson – Deputy Attorney General (former) Wisconsin |
| Bonnie Harris – Former Senior Assistant Attorney General |
| Scott Harshbarger – Senior Counsel; Former MA Attorney–General |
| Kirk Hartley – Law firm partner |
| David Haselkorn – David L Haselkorn PC |
| Leone Hatch – Attorney |
| Rodney Hatley – Lieutenant Commander |
| Barbara Hayden Fitts – Counsellor at Law |
| Laura Haynes – Attorney |
| David Hemond – Former attorney for Connecticut Law Revision Commission |
| Richard Herzog – Attorney |
| Ingrid Hillinger – Professor of Law |
| Geraldine Hines – Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (Ret.) |
| Bill Hing – Professor of Law |
| Eric Hirschhorn – Retired Partner |
| John Hitt – Former Assistant Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts |
| David Hoffman – Lecturer on Law |
| Nancy Hoffman – CDR |
| Deborah Holbrook – Owner of Deborah A. Holbrook |
| Paul Holtzman – Attorney |
| Christine Hopkins – Of Counsel |
| Susan Horn – Retired Attorney |
| Joseph Hornack – Adjunct Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh School of Law |
| Ira Horowitz – Retired Attorney |
| Kay Howard – Retired Administrative Law Judge |
| Kerry Hultquist – Attorney |
| William Humenuk – Attorney |
| Douglas Hyde – Former President |
| Cathy Iles – Private Practitioner |
| Trina Ingelfinger – Former Chief Attorney |
| Elaine Ingulli – Former Legal Services Attorney, and Professor of Business Law |
| Deborah Jackson Weiss – Retired Partner |
| Melissa Jacoby – Attorney |
| Jerome Jaffe – Attorney |
| Matthew Jamin – Attorney |
| George Jepsen – Attorney |
| Scott Joseph – Joseph Law Office |
| Lisa Kabnick – Senior Advisor |
| David Kader – Emeritus Professor of Law |
| Gerald Kahn – Private practice |
| Steven Kahn – Attorney |
| Bernard Kamine – Attorney |
| Robert Kapp – Attorney |
| Ira Karasick – Township Attorney |
| Molly Karlin – Assistant Federal Public Defender |
| Rudolph Kass – Attorney |
| Barbara Katz – Retired General Counsel |
| Isabelle Katz Pinzler – Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General |
| Joyce Kauffman – Attorney |
| Nicholas Kelley – Of counsel |
| Barbara Kellman – Partner, Sneider Kellman PC |
| Frederic Kellogg – Former U.S. Attorney |
| Michael Kelly – Former Dean |
| William Kelly – Retired partner |
| Guy Kerner – Attorney |
| Steven Kessler – Attorney at Law: former clerk to Judge Constance Baker Motley |
| Crawford Kirkpatrick – Registered Investment Advisor |
| Thomas Kite – Attorney–At–Law |
| James Klimaski – Klimaski & Associates |
| Stephen Klitzman – Former Attorney |
| Daniel Klonowski – Attorney at Law; Former Acting Judge |
| Eric Kocher – Attorney at Law |
| Pamela Kogut – Former Assistant Attorney General |
| Steven Koh – Assistant Professor |
| Anne Koza – Attorney at Law |
| Paul Kozikowski – Attorney |
| Marvin Krakow – Founding Partner |
| Mitchell Kraus – Former General Counsel Transportation Communications Union |
| Ginny Kremer – Former Assistant Attoreny General |
| Eric Kueffner – Retired attorney |
| Adrienne Lalak Deckman – Former Ohio Assistant Attorney General Chief Counsel Staff |
| Tera Lally – private investment funds attorney |
| Stephan Landsman – Professor of Tort Law and Social Policy |
| Jane Lang – Attorney |
| H. Van Z. Lawrence – Private Attorney |
| Jean Lazarus – Attorney |
| Jane Lee – Attorney |
| William Lee – Former Chief of Staff |
| Arthur Leonard – Robert F. Wagner Professor of Labor & Employment Law |
| Averil Lerman – Formerly with the Federal Public Defender |
| Judy Levenson – Brody |
| David Levy – Attorney |
| Janice Levy – Former assistant attorney general |
| Jeff Levy – Partner |
| Ralph Levy – Retired Partner King & Spalding LLP |
| Scott Lewis – Anderson & Kreiger LLP |
| Yvonne Lewis – Attorney |
| Carol Liebman – Clinical Professor Emerita |
| Lance Liebman – Professor Emeritus |
| Susan Lillis – Attorney |
| Frank Lindh – Adjunct Professor |
| William Litchfield – Litchfield & Litchfield |
| Julie Locascio – Attorney at Law |
| Thomas Lohman – Attorney |
| Peter Lohnes – Knowledge Mosaic |
| Alan London – Retired attorney |
| David Long – Attorney |
| Julie Lovell – Retired attorney |
| Fred Lowenfels – General Counsel Emeritus |
| Roger Lowenstein – Founder |
| John Lowry – Partner |
| John Lozada – Attorney |
| Andrea Lua – Attorney |
| Ellen Lubell – Principal |
| Edward Luria – Alvord and Alvord PLLC |
| Barry Lynn – Former Executive Director |
| Paula Mackin – Former litigator and children’s rights attorney |
| Victoria Macpherson – Private practice |
| Bashar Malkawi – Legal Counsel and adjunt professor at University of Arizona |
| Kristin Malmberg – Attorney |
| Myrna Mandlawitz – President |
| Stanley Marcuss – Former Counsel to the U.S. Senate’s International Finance Subcommittee; former Senior Deputy Assistant Secretary in the U.S. Commerce Department; former partner |
| William Markstein – Member |
| Michael Marnik – Former Partner |
| Teri Marsh – Attorney |
| Anthony Martin – Attorney |
| Jan Marx – San Luis Obispo College of Law Campus Dean. Former Mayor of San Luis Obispo. |
| Howard Matz – Former Federal Judge |
| L. Stephen McCready – Founder |
| Robert McDaniel – Former AUSA |
| Jacob McDermott – Senior Energy and Regulatory Attorney |
| Robert McGarrah – Pro Bono Attorney |
| Lisa McGovern – Former Assistant District Attorney |
| Robert McGovern – Attorney |
| James McHugh – Former Associate Justice |
| Jay McManus – Director |
| Alan Meisel – Attorney |
| Thomas Mela – Attorney |
| H. Stephen Merlin – Founding Partner Cohen Pollock Merlin Turner |
| Douglas Mertz – Mertz Law Office; Juneau, Alaska |
| Richard Meserve – Attorney |
| Naomi Meyer – Senior Attorney |
| John Miller – Law Office of John M. Miller |
| Nancy Miller – Attorney |
| David Mills – Former Associate Justice |
| Alan Minuskin – Attorney |
| Jeff Modisett – Former Asst. U.S. Attorney (Deputy Chief of Public Corruption & Govt. Fraud Div.) |
| Bruce Mohl – Former Justice |
| Brian Monahan – Attorney |
| John Montgomery – Ropes & Gray |
| Sandra Moody – Massachusetts Department of Education |
| Alan Morrison – George Washington Law School |
| Eileen Morrison – Attorney |
| Charles Mullins – Senior Attorney (Retired) |
| John Murdock – Environmental Attorney (ret.); President |
| Florence Murray – Lawyer |
| James Nelson – Justice |
| NancyLee Nelson – Nancy Lee Nelson |
| Ronald Nemirow – Attorney |
| Leslie Newman – Professor of Law Cardozo School of Law New York |
| Cheryl Niro – Former Partner |
| Alice Noble – Attorney |
| Walter North – Ambassador (Ret.) |
| Neil O’Donnell – Of Counsel, Cascadia Cross Border Law Group LLC |
| Ann O’Shea – NYS Acting Supreme Court Justice (Ret.) |
| Laurinda Ochoa – Alameda County Deputy District Attorney former |
| Edward Opton – University Counsel |
| Melanie Oxhorn – Attorney at Law |
| Richard Painter – Former Chief White House ethics lawyer for President George W. Bush |
| Terrence Pancoast – Attorney |
| Ryan Papir – Associate General Counsel |
| Richard Parish – Retired Attorney |
| Wendy Parmet – Prof. of Law |
| Rodger Pegues – Superior Court Judge Alaska |
| Jane Perkins – Legal Director |
| Joel Perwin – Pres. Joel S. Perwin |
| Jeffrey Petrucelly – Pro bomo retired attorney; access to justice fellow |
| Mary (Polly) Phillips – Attorney |
| Duncan Pickard – Attorney |
| Lois Pines – Member of US Supreme Court Bar & Former MA State Senator |
| Marisa Pizzuto – Law practice |
| John Pollok – Partner |
| Thaddeus Pope – Attorney |
| Adrienne Prager – Civil rights advocate |
| Griffith Price |
| Fernande (Nan) R.V. Duffly – Former Justice MA Supreme Judicial Court |
| Joan Rachlin – Executive Director |
| W.Scott Railton – Attorney |
| Gershon Ratner – Founder and Executive Director |
| Jason Reddish – Partner, Feldesman Tucker Leifer Fidell LLP |
| Dawn Reed–Slaten – Attorney |
| William Rees – Of Counsel |
| David Remes – Guantanamo detainee habeas lawyer |
| Robert Renneker – Attorney |
| Blake Rider – Business owner |
| Michael Riley – Attorney |
| Roland Riopelle – Sercarz & Riopelle |
| Keith Roberts – Attorney |
| Eleanor Roberts Lewis – Former Chief Counsel for International Commerce |
| Allan Rodgers – Retired |
| Estelle Rogers – Public interest lawyer |
| Robert Rosenbaum – Retired Partner |
| Morris Rosenberg – Washington State Association for Justice |
| Emery Rosenbluth Jr. – Rosenbluth Law P.A. |
| Martin Rosenthal – too may to list |
| Stuart Rossman – Former Assistant Attorney General |
| Thomas Rossmeissl – Attorney |
| Joanna Roth – Mediator |
| Philip Rotner – Attorney |
| Andrew Rotstein – Counsel |
| Emanuel Rouvelas – N/A |
| Wayne Rusch – Berliner |
| Macey Russell – Attorney |
| Miles Ruthberg – Retired Law Firm Partner |
| Robert Safron – Partner |
| Gary Sampliner – Former Senior Counsel |
| Dorothy Samuels – Attorney and journalist |
| Melissa Scanlan – Attorney |
| Karen Scarr – Associate General Counsel |
| James Schiavenza – Attorney |
| Lois Schiffer – Former Assistant Attorney General |
| Ronna Schneider – Professor of Law, University of Cincinnati College of Law |
| John Sexton – President Emeritus |
| Jonathan Shapiro – Shapiro & Teitelbaum LLP |
| Steven Shatz – Emeritus Professor |
| R. Kelly Sheridan – Of Counsel |
| Francine Sherman – Attorney |
| John Sherman – Senior Program Fellow |
| Mark Shklov – Attorney |
| Mark Shulman – Adjunct Professor |
| Barbara Siegel – Visiting Professor USC Gould School |
| Norman Silber – Professor of Law |
| Beth Simon – Law Offices of Beth E Simon |
| Daniel Sleasman – Attorney |
| Virginia Sloan – Founder and president emeritus |
| Christopher Slobogin – Attorney |
| Nancy Slonim – Attorney |
| Jeff Sloss – Former attorney |
| Eleanor Smith – Law Firm Partner |
| Lisa Smith – Attorney |
| Miguel Smith – Law Firm Partner |
| Allen Snyder – Partner |
| Neal Sonnett – Former Assistant U.S. Attorney and Chief |
| Rochelle SouzaHall – Former FINRA Hearing Officer; currently a psychotherapist |
| Larri Spengler – private practice |
| Mark Spiegel – Professor of Law Boston College Law School |
| Laura Stafford – Attorney |
| Michael Stark – Former Assistant District Attorney and Assistant Attorney General |
| Gary Starr – Attorney |
| Kathleen Strasbaugh – sole practitioner |
| Richard Steel – Attorney |
| David Steelman – Co–author |
| Jon Steffensen – Of Counsel |
| Marshall Stein – Former Assistant U.S. Attorney |
| Richard Steinberg – Attorney |
| Judith Stephenson – Attorney |
| Tenley Stephenson – Former associate at Goodwin Procter |
| Donald Stern – Former United States Attorney |
| Mark Stern – Human Rights Office City of Boston |
| David Steuber – Retired partner |
| Janna Stewart – Former DA |
| Margaret Stock – Cascadia Cross Border Law Group LLC |
| N. Robert Stoll – Former Founding Partner |
| Robert Stolzberg – Law Offices of Robert Stolzberg |
| Geoffrey Stone – Edward H. Levi Distinguished Professorof Law |
| James Sturdevant – Former President |
| Peter Sturges – Common Cause Massachusetts |
| David Sullivan – Former MA Senate Counsel |
| Ronald Sullivan – Jesse Climenko Clinical Professor of Law |
| Kenneth Sweder – Attorney |
| Hannah Tanabe – Attorney |
| Sandy Tarrant – Attorney |
| Jennifer Taub – Professor of Law |
| Daniel Taylor – Attorney |
| Marilyn Tebor Shaw – Former Associate Judicial Administrator |
| Mia Teitelbaum – Partner |
| Paul Tendler – Law Offices of Paul Tendler |
| John Tener – Attorney |
| Doris Tennant – Attorney |
| Christopher Toews – Senior Partner, Toews Law Group, Inc. |
| Gerald Torres – Professor of Law |
| Michael Traynor – Attorney |
| Laurence Tribe – Carl M. Loeb University Professor and Professor of Constitutional Law |
| Howard Trickey – Partner |
| Mary True – Dreitler True LLC Retired Attorney |
| Kathryn Tucker – Attorney |
| Ralph Tyler – Former Deputy Attorney General of Maryland; former Baltimore City Solicitor; former Chief Counsel U.S. Food and Drug Adminsitration |
| Carl Valvo – Former Assistant Attorney General |
| Stephanie Vardavas – Law Office of Stephanie Vardavas |
| Suzanne Vaughan – LA County Bar Association |
| Joseph Velasquez – Former Assistant Attorney General |
| Ira Waldman – Cox |
| Jack Walker – Former managing partner |
| Les Wallerstein – Attorney |
| Rhonda Wasserman – Attorney |
| Heidi-Rachel Webb – Attorney |
| Robert Weiss – Pretrial Justice Institute |
| Lynn Weissberg – Retired partner |
| Lisa Weissler – Retired assistant attorney general |
| Michelle Welsh – Professor of Constitutional Law, Monterey College of Law |
| David White – White White & Van Etten PC |
| Peggy Wiesenberg – Access to Justice Fellow |
| Jeffrey Wiesner – Wiesner McKinnon LLP |
| Crystal Williams – American Immigration Lawyers Association |
| James Wilton – Partner |
| Jenna WimsHashway – Professor of Legal Practice |
| Mitchel Winick – President and Dean |
| Chester Winkowski – Private Practice; Former Assistant District Counsel |
| David Wirth – Professor of Law |
| Stephen Wizner – National Board of trial Advocacy |
| Bruce Wolff – Retired attorney |
| Lucien Wulsin – Attorney |
| David Wylie – Attorney |
| James Yoakum – Associate |
| Antonio Zuniga – Trial lawyer |