Matthew Whitaker
was paid to sit on the advisory board of World Patent Marketing, which
was ordered in May this year to pay a $26m settlement following legal
action by federal authorities, which said it tricked aspiring inventors.
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Matthew Whitaker advised Donald Trump on investigating Hillary Clinton
Matthew Whitaker, whom President Donald Trump named as
his acting attorney general on Wednesday, privately provided advice to
the president last year on how the White House might be able to pressure
the Justice Department to investigate the president’s political
adversaries, Vox has learned.
Acting Attorney General Once Declared Courts ‘Inferior’ and Criticized Supreme Court’s Power
Laurence Tribe, a Harvard Law School constitutional law professor, said
that Mr. Whitaker’s expressed views of the Constitution and the role of
the courts “are extreme and the overall picture he presents would have
virtually no scholarly support” and would be “destabilizing” to society
if he used the power of the attorney general to advance them.
Jeff Sessions Is Forced Out as Attorney General as Trump Installs Loyalist
President Trump forced out Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday
and replaced him with a loyalist who will now take charge of the special
counsel investigation into Russia’s election interference, a defiant
move just a day after a midterm election loss.