Push to Disbar Jeffrey Clark for ‘Attempted Dishonesty’ a Show Trial

Soviet show trials were not just sham proceedings. The charges were often purposefully absurd, as if to communicate that it wasn’t about justice, or even retribution, just a naked demonstration of the party’s power. Bereft of any real law, punctilious attention to procedure gave the trials a phantasmagorical aspect, both farcical and terrorizing.

Something similar has been going in the District of Columbia’s four-year-long persecution of Jeffrey Bossert Clark, currently one of the most senior attorneys in the Trump White House and director of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, the regulatory nerve center of the administration. He is accused of professional misconduct for recommendations he made in the wake of the 2020 election, when he was among the highest-ranking officials at the Justice Department.

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Mario Loyola is a professor of environment at Florida International University and a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation.

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Soviet show trials were not just sham proceedings. The charges were often purposefully absurd, as if to communicate that it wasn’t about justice, or even retribution, just a naked demonstration of the party’s power. Bereft of any real law, punctilious attention to procedure gave the trials a phantasmagorical aspect, both farcical and terrorizing.

Something similar has been going in the District of Columbia’s four-year-long persecution of Jeffrey Bossert Clark, currently one of the most senior attorneys in the Trump White House and director of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, the regulatory nerve center of the administration. He is accused of professional misconduct for recommendations he made in the wake of the 2020 election, when he was among the highest-ranking officials at the Justice Department.