Harvard University law professor Jack Goldsmith wrote on Sunday that presidents should not comment on pending Justice Department investigations.
News. The president's son denied any wrongdoing in the tax case and said that he handled his matters"legally and appropriately." The case expanded to also include a possible gun-related charge in connection with the president's son allegedly making a false statement on a form linked to a gun purchase in 2018, according to Insider.
Aides in the Biden administration insisted that the president's advisers didn't interfere or influence the course of the investigation. An unnamed senior adviser to the president said that advisers in the White House"don't direct or advise" Hunter Biden's lawyers on how to act, according toPresident Joe Biden speaks during a meeting on May 5 in Washington, D.C.
"Biden's statement was one of the most egregious and ill-timed breaches of the norms of Justice Department independence since Watergate," the Harvard professor wrote about Biden's Friday comment in a Lawfare blog on Sunday. He explained that presidents should not be involved in, or comment on, pending DOJ investigations,"especially ones that impact the president," despite having authority under Article II to direct criminal investigations. Goldsmith wrote that, like Biden, former presidents have commented on DOJ investigations in the past while they were in office. He mentioned that former President
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