Lanny Davis: Misuse of courts — there must be a better way
Under current U.S. legal precedent, parties filing suit and their attorneys have virtually absolute immunity for any false charges made in court filings. And making matters worse, once the public court...
View ArticleLanny Davis: The media’s rush to judgment on Roger Goodell
The tendency to rush to judgment in the media, based more on suppositions than facts, is now unfortunately common not only on the Internet and in the blogosphere but in the mainstream media. Here’s a...
View ArticleDavis: Bush 41 and the credit he is due
Former President George W. Bush’s biography of his father, 41: A Portrait of My Father, reminds us of the many significant accomplishments of our 41st president, George H.W. Bush, during his one term,...
View ArticleLanny Davis: An earlier start for the presidential race? Really?
Many political pundits and Republicans are hyperventilating about the news that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton may actually wait a while longer before making up her mind whether to run for...
View ArticleDavis: Brian Williams — lie or real mistake?
The issue for me regarding the Brian Williams controversy is whether he made a mistake or intentionally misled people by making a claim he knew was false, i.e., lied. To conclude that a mistake is...
View ArticleLanny Davis: No good deed goes unpunished
Last week, The Washington Post devoted 1,676 words to a story about donations to the Clinton Foundation — i.e., “a vast global network that includes corporate titans, political donors, foreign...
View ArticleLanny Davis: The scandal machine: Will we ever learn?
In 1999, I published a book describing my experiences as White House special counsel in dealing mostly with the various campaign finance accusations against the 1996 Clinton presidential campaign...
View ArticleLanny Davis: The Big Idea of the GOP field for 2016
So what do the many current and pending Republican presidential candidates have to say to the country about why they should be president in these challenging times at home and abroad?I must say, there...
View ArticleLanny Davis: Everyone deserves due process — even politicians
It is a felony for a prosecutor or law enforcement official with knowledge of a grand jury’s investigation to disclose to newspapers that an individual is about to be indicted by that grand jury. It is...
View ArticleLanny Davis: The great purple issue of criminal justice reform
What do Hillary Clinton, Rand Paul, Cory Booker, Tim Scott, Elijah Cummings, Rick Perry, Newt Gingrich, Van Jones, John Kasich, Bob Goodlatte, Koch Industries and the Tea Party-aligned group...
View ArticleLanny Davis: Privacy protection and security: We can have both
We are again facing the fallacy of the false choice. Those who are concerned about protecting the privacy rights of Americans (including this writer) should not have to choose between protection of...
View ArticleLanny Davis: Hillary Clinton and the frenzy of the media
"Mobs of reporters and cameramen and other Big Timers were out there wearing bush jackets with leather straps running this way and that and knocking back their Pepsi-Colas and Nehis and yelling to each...
View ArticleLanny Davis: Hillary Clinton: Then and now
As I watched Hillary Clinton deliver her formal announcement speech Saturday at Roosevelt Island in New York City, I went through kind of a time warp. What year is this?I remembered the first time I...
View ArticleDavis: Have they lost all sense of shame?
On June 9, 1954, Republican Sen. Joe McCarthy of Wisconsin, chairman of a Senate subcommittee investigating communism in government, was confronted by attorney Joseph Welch during nationally televised...
View ArticleLanny Davis: Why is the media picking sides on polling?
On June 25, the results of two polls of likely New Hampshire Democratic presidential primary voters were published by their sponsors: CNN-WMUR and Bloomberg/Saint Anselm College. The polls were...
View ArticleDavis: Yes on the Iran deal — by an eyelash
If there were any realistic alternative to having no nuclear deal with Iran — an alternative that seemed more likely to prevent or substantially delay Iran’s development of a nuclear bomb — I would...
View ArticleLanny Davis: Clinton and Bush, a teaching moment for America
At about the same time Donald Trump was surging to the top of Republican presidential polls — after calling illegal immigrants from Mexico rapists and challenging John McCain’s heroism because he was...
View ArticleLanny Davis: Nationals Park: The one purple place in Washington
"Ray, people will come. ... And they’ll watch the game, and it’ll be as if they’d dipped themselves in magic waters. The memories will be so thick, they’ll have to brush them away from their faces. ......
View ArticleLanny Davis: Making news: The media-wide anti-Clinton bias
I have written before about the media’s anti-Clinton and pro-Sanders bias in reporting poll results in the Democratic presidential nomination contest. If you need any further evidence, take a look at...
View ArticleLanny Davis: The curtain’s been pulled on Gowdy’s partisan sham
We all remember the scene in the classic 1939 movie “The Wizard of Oz” where the little dog Toto goes to a curtain and pulls it back, revealing not the great and mighty wizard but an old man using...
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