Ken Starr
Ken Starr
Kenneth Winston "Ken" Starris an American lawyer who has also been a federal judge and U.S. Solicitor General. He is the former President and Chancellor of Baylor University, and currently holds the Louise L. Morrison Chair of Constitutional Law at Baylor University Law School. He carried out a controversial investigation of members of the Clinton administration...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionLawyer
Date of Birth21 July 1946
CountryUnited States of America
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The grand jury is trying to get facts, evaluate facts. I can't comment on whether a privilege has been invoked but a privilege is a legal right that may be subject of litigation if one is invoked,
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We contacted Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder within 48 hours after Ms. Tripp provided us information ... About Ms. Tripp's tapes and the questions concerning their legality under state law. About the consensual FBI recording of Ms. Tripp and Ms. Lewinsky. About the indications that Vernon Jordan was providing employment assistance to a witness who had the potential to harm the president ... We discussed jurisdiction. We noted that it is in everyone's interest to avoid time-consuming jurisdictional challenges.
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To reduce the unfortunate personalization of the process in particular in the wake of the inherently divisive impeachment proceedings, the wiser course, I believe, is for another individual to head the investigation.
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extraordinarily important and that I failed to fully take that into account in terms of what I view and still do as essentially as a legal process and judicial process.
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That is false and you know it to be false,
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It was not our place to reinvent the investigative wheel,
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never suggests that the relationship between the president and Ms. Lewinsky in and of itself could be a high crime or misdemeanor...The propriety of a relationship is not the concern of our office.
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The attorney general's refutation of the legal argument made by the White House ... speaks volumes about the far-fetched nature of the White House's submission,
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It may prove to have the kind of long-term boomerang effect, damage on the institution of the Senate that thoughtful senators may come to regret.
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It was fair and right to go to someone who is in the midst of a very serious thing, ... She was in the process of committing serious offenses.
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I totally disagree with that, ... That's an accusation...
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Rights are in the power of the people.
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In law, one's sense of calling or vocation will lead one to be interested in certain dimensions of Constitutional law.
I was privileged to serve as a judge.