Ken Starr was a great lawyer, but much more than that, he was a good man. As things often go at the intersection of law and politics, he had plenty of reasons not to be. A brilliant constitutional conservative, federal appellate judge, and solicitor general — perennially in the mix for nomination to the nation’s highest court — he had the patriotic devotion to take on the most thankless task in modern American history: independent counsel in the investigation of President Clinton. For that, the media-Democrat complex spared no effort to destroy him . . . personally. The deeper they dug into the muck, though, the more determined he was to complete his work while maintaining his dignity, honor, and civility.
It was a real privilege to befriend him these last years, mainly at NR Institute events and working together at Fox. He was a voice of calm through the turbulence of the Trump years, too, confident through one controversy after another that the genius of our Constitution would see us through. What I will always remember is how his deep faith, keen mind, and quick wit kept him cheerful and gracious after all he’d been through. His wife, Alice, had a great deal to do with that, and our thoughts are with her and the Starr family.
Requiescat in pace.