Kellyanne Conway, a graduate of George Washington University Law School, may have some more professional troubles coming her way. The Washington Post reports a group of law professors from across the country joined forces to say the President’s adviser should be sanctioned.
The letter, filed with the office that handles misconduct by members of the D.C. Bar, said Conway should be sanctioned for violating government ethics rules and “conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation,” the letter says.
The 15 professors, who specialize in legal ethics, cite several incidents, including a television interview in which Conway made the “false statement that President Barack Obama had ‘banned’ Iraqi refugees from coming into the United States for six months following the ‘Bowling Green Massacre,’ ” and the use of her position to endorse Ivanka Trump products.
“We do not file this complaint lightly,” the professors said in their filing. “We believe that, at one time, Ms. Conway, understood her ethical responsibilities as a lawyer and abided by them. But she is currently acting in a way that brings shame upon the legal profession.”
The five-page document addresses the now-infamous “alternative facts” phenomenon. You can read a copy of the complaint letter here. Here’s one of my favorite parts.
As many prominent commentators have pointed out, the phrase“alternative facts” is especially dangerous when offered by the President’s counselor. Moreover, “alternative facts’ are not facts at all; they are lies.
WELP!
This isn’t the first time she’s drawn ire from the academic community. Her alma mater Trinity Washington University had this to say about their 1989 graduate:
The president of Trinity Washington University, though, has had plenty to say about one of its graduates. “Presidential Counselor Kellyanne Conway, Trinity Class of 1989, has played a large role in facilitating the manipulation of facts and encouraging the grave injustice being perpetrated by the Trump Administration’s war on immigrants among many other issues,” Patricia McGuire wrote recently.
Burn. She’s not wrong, though.
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