When I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, was disbarred by the D.C. Court of Appeals last week for his felony convictions in Plamegate, he may have been consoled by the company he now keeps, at least in the abstract.
In Washington, lawyers-turned-disgraced politicos have a rich history. D.C Bar Counsel Wallace “Gene” Shipp Jr. reeled off some highlights last week. Richard Nixon was disbarred from New York in 1976. He resigned from the California state bar and the U.S. Supreme Court bar, but New York wouldn’t let him resign unless he admitted that, if not for his pardon, he couldn’t have beaten a charge of obstruction of justice in the Watergate probe. Watergate claimed the law licenses of at least three other Nixon administration officials, including John Mitchell, the only attorney general to be imprisoned.
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