25-08-2018 17:18 via sltrib.com

Noah Feldman: With his quote about a Manafort pardon, Giuliani is on thin ice

It’s bad enough that President Donald Trump is flirting with obstruction of justice by suggesting that he’s thinking of pardoning Paul Manafort as a reward for Manafort’s refusal so far to cooperate with the special counsel. But Rudy Giuliani, a former U.S. attorney, is part of the effort — and his latest comments are so close to the line of obstruction that they actually may have crossed it.Giuliani, now one of Trump’s personal lawyers, told The Washington Post on
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