{"id":28770,"date":"2019-12-02T12:17:17","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T17:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/?p=28770"},"modified":"2019-12-04T11:46:55","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T16:46:55","slug":"law-professor-ciara-torres-spelliscy-quoted-on-bloomberg-government-on-foreign-involvement-in-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/2019\/12\/02\/law-professor-ciara-torres-spelliscy-quoted-on-bloomberg-government-on-foreign-involvement-in-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Law Professor Ciara Torres-Spelliscy quoted on Bloomberg Government on foreign involvement in elections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Trump Ukraine Fracas Echoes Nixon, Clinton Campaign-Law Scandals<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;line-height:18px\">By Kenneth P. Doyle<br><em>Bloomberg Government<\/em><br>Nov. 7, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Excerpt<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/torres-spelliscy-square.png\" alt=\"Ciara Torres-Spelliscy\" class=\"wp-image-28730\" width=\"165\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/torres-spelliscy-square.png 300w, https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/torres-spelliscy-square-200x200.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 165px) 100vw, 165px\" \/><figcaption>Ciara Torres-Spelliscy<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What\u2019s different now is that the episode at the heart of the probe involves not money but something that could be just as valuable\u2013a foreign government investigation of a political rival, according to Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, a law professor at Stetson University, who\u2019s studied the history of campaign finance law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt is beyond the pale,\u201d Torres-Spelliscy said, to make the request Trump did in a phone call to Zelenskiy. The House clearly could determine this was an illegal solicitation of something valuable to the president as a candidate for re-election, she said, but lawmakers wouldn\u2019t be able to point to a specific precedent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Torres-Spelliscy&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.acslaw.org\/expertforum\/congress-has-used-campaign-finance-for-impeachment-before-heres-how-to-do-it-now\/\" target=\"_blank\">has written<\/a>&nbsp;that articles of impeachment drafted against [President Richard] Nixon but never voted on due to his resignation in 1974 included alleged campaign-finance violations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"border-top: 1px solid #cccccc;width:100px;margin: 20px 0px 15px 0px !important;\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size: 11.5px;line-height:18px;padding-bottom:15px;\">This article was originally published on the Bloomberg Government website on Nov. 7, 2019, with the headline, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/about.bgov.com\/news\/trump-ukraine-fracas-echoes-nixon-clinton-campaign-law-scandals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trump Ukraine Fracas Echoes Nixon, Clinton Campaign-Law Scandals<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump Ukraine Fracas Echoes Nixon, Clinton Campaign-Law Scandals By Kenneth P. 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