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A member of Congress raised eyebrows Sunday after she used her commencement address at George Washington Law School to criticize one of the school's professors for cautioning against the impeachment of former President Donald Trump.
Jonathan Turley, a professor at the D.C.-based law school, took to his personal website to defend himself after Rep. Susan Wild (D-PA) criticized him while delivering the school's commencement address Sunday for testifying against impeaching Trump.
"You must be wary of those seeking to use their influence and their expertise to wrongful ends," Wild said of Turley in her address. "GW Law, for example, has a tenured professor who is, without question, well-versed in constitutional law but has recently made a name for himself on cable news and social media by undermining his own past well-documented scholarship."
"A law professor who at one time strenuously advocated that a president need not commit an indictable offense to be impeached and in just this past year argued the opposite for a president more to his liking," she continued. "A president, no less, who instigated an insurrection and a bloody assault on our democratic process and the rule of law.”
In a response on his website Monday, Turley, who missed the commencement due to a prior commitment, said that Wild had "made no effort" to contact him prior to delivering the speech and "clearly made no effort to confirm the underlying allegation."
"She had every reason to expect me to...
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