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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With no institutional defender, independent counsels are especially vulnerable to partisan attack,
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I love Sam. I respect him. I admire him. He's a total man of principle. I have really profited from his judgment. I think it was a matter of principle. It was so important to him.
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Charges have been made. We'll look into those charges but let's find out the facts. Let's find out the facts.
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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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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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Unfortunately, we have seen already that a duly appointed career prosecutor, a career prosecutor, has already come under criticism and I think that's very unfortunate, ... Let's depoliticize it. Let's say that is now in the hands of very distinguished career prosecutor, Bob Ray.
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moving very quickly and we've made very significant progress.
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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.
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I said in sharp language that that practice was wrong.
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As you may know, I'm a native Texan. In fact I'm a fifth generation Texan.
I am not here to accuse the media of anything.