Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Special Counsel Protection

Matthew Kahn
Tuesday, September 26, 2017, 9:38 AM

Today at 10:00 am, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing entitled 'Special Counsels and the Separation of Powers' to consider two bills that are designed to protect special counsels from wrongful termination. It will feature testimony from the following four witnesses, whose prepared statements are included below.

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Today at 10:00 am, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing entitled 'Special Counsels and the Separation of Powers' to consider two bills that are designed to protect special counsels from wrongful termination. It will feature testimony from the following four witnesses, whose prepared statements are included below.

  • Akhil Reed Amar, Yale Law School (Statement)
  • Eric Posner, University of Chicago Law School (Statement)
  • Stephen I. Vladeck, University of Texas Law School (Statement)
  • John F. Duffy, University of Virginia School of Law (Statement)

Matthew Kahn is a third-year law student at Harvard Law School and a contributor at Lawfare. Prior to law school, he worked for two years as an associate editor of Lawfare and as a junior researcher at the Brookings Institution. He graduated from Georgetown University in 2017.

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