Opinion: A good day for justice
This courtroom sketch shows Paul Manafort listening to Judge Amy Berman Jackson during his sentencing hearing in Washington on Wednesday. By Jennifer Rubin Jennifer Rubin Opinion writer covering politics and policy, foreign and domestic Email Bio Follow Opinion writer March 14 at 11:15 AM After the skimpy sentence handed down by U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis in Virginia last week, Wednesday proved satisfying for those straining to see some semblance of equal justice under the law.
That didn’t stop his lawyer from falsely announcing outside the courtroom that his client had been cleared of collusion charges. Jackson added, “It’s not appropriate to say investigators haven’t found anything when you lied to the investigators.” She also told him to stop playing victim. Jackson told Manafort, “This defendant is not public enemy number one, but he’s also not a victim either.
Constitutional scholar Laurence Tribe told me that “the crimes charged appear to be very serious and distinct enough from the federal crimes for which Manafort has been sentenced to avoid any double jeopardy problem either as a matter of New York law or as a matter of federal constitutional law in the event that the Supreme Court were to jettison the separate sovereigns doctrine in Gamble v. United States, currently awaiting decision after the December 6 oral argument.
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