Prof. Richard Painter UMN
[5-7-2021]

Prof. Richard Painter was the Chief Ethics Officer in the administration of president George W Bush. He is well known on national media and we are honored that he has appeared on Access to Democracy on several occasions. Prof. Painter is a tenured faculty member of the University of Minnesota Law School, and is active nationally in several organizations. Alan posed the question as to whether Prof. Painter thought that disciplinary or criminal action was appropriate for either former Attorney General William Barr or Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Guiliani. Responding in the affirmative in each case, Painter went on to discuss important First Amendment issues involving Facebook and other social media platforms.