Professor Stanley Brand quoted in PolitiFact: 'Can James Comey use President Donald Trump’s rhetoric as a legal defense?'

CARLISLE, Pa.—Professor Stanley M. Brand was recently quoted in an article published in PolitiFact titled “Can James Comey use President Donald Trump’s rhetoric as a legal defense?”

The article asks whether Comey, the former FBI director who was recently indicted for providing false testimony to Congress, could “find a powerful criminal defense tool in President Donald Trump’s repeated public attacks against him.”

Brand says the Comey case is the strongest for selective prosecution he has seen in 50 years as a defense lawyer. "The record is rife with evidence of the president’s animus toward defendants and his direct orders to initiate prosecutions regardless of Justice Department prosecutorial standards and mores," the article quotes Brand.

Read the full piece here.

Professor Stanley M. Brand is the On-site Director of Dickinson Law’s Semester-in-Washington D.C. Program. With over thirty years of experience, Professor Brand offers students a particularly sharp insight into federal regulatory and legislative practice in Washington, D.C. He is the former General Counsel of the U.S. House of Representatives and chief legal officer responsible for representing the House, its members, officers, and employees in connection with legal procedures and challenges to the conduct of their official activities; former Senior Counsel in Akin Gump’s litigation practice in Washington, D.C.; and Vice President, National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues (the governing body of minor league baseball). He is a co-author, with Professor Lance Cole, of a casebook on Congressional Investigations. With over thirty years of experience, Professor Brand offers students a particularly sharp insight into federal regulatory and legislative practice in Washington, D.C.