Martin London

London is a retired partner for the law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and the author of The Client Decides; he was a principal lawyer for Vice President Spiro Agnew.

Recent Articles

John Roberts Has More Power Than Mitch McConnell Would Like You to Think. But Will He Use It?

The Constitution is, in many respects, vague. And no part of our founding charter has more gaps than the impeachment clauses.At the time of drafting of the Constitution, the colonists were still recovering from a...

By Martin London

Why Donald Trump Could Still Resign

Resignation has always been a small-odds proposition for this egocentric President, but today the stars are more aligned for that result than ever before.Like in the Nixon case, the primer to the resignation bullet is...

By Martin London

Spiro Agnew's Lawyer: Mike Pence Should Be Worried About Impeachment Too

The Constitution provides for impeachment of “The President, Vice President and all Civil Officers…”The current House impeachment inquiry is focused on President Trump’s apparent effort to persuade a foreign government to interfere in the 2020...

By Martin London

The Fight Over the Mueller Report Will Reveal Just How Political the Courts Have Become

And raise questions about Obama-era stonewalling and a sitting justice's family history

By Martin London

Robert Mueller Was Wrong. President Trump Can Be Indicted

According to a lawyer whose decades-old case was central to Mueller's decision

By Martin London

Why Barr Won't Be Able to Keep the Mueller Report's Most Important Parts Private

The Attorney General would have to contend with two crucial court decisions

By Martin London

The President Has Been Implicated in a Crime. Statutes of Limitations Should Not Save Him

A former lawyer for Vice President Spiro Agnew recommends a solution

By Martin London

My Client Resigned From the White House. It's Time for Trump to Think About His Children and Do the Same

Impeachment should be far from the President's only concern

By Martin London

Why Trump Couldn’t Really Stop the Mueller Investigation—Even if He Fired Rosenstein

And how that should change the President's calculus

By Martin London

I Was a Lawyer for Spiro Agnew. President Trump Should Consider Resigning

And negotiating a deal

By Martin London

Why President Trump Couldn't Have Stopped the White House Counsel From Talking to the Mueller Investigation

And why talk of attorney-client privilege is misleading

By Martin London

Why President Trump's Latest Collusion Claims Don't Add Up

Assessing the "Collusion is not a crime" and "I did not know about it" arguments

By Martin London

President Trump Can’t Declare War, Only Congress Can. So Why Won't It?

While Trump launches bombs — and brags about a nuclear button — Congress dithers

By Martin London

Robert Mueller Says President Trump Isn’t a ‘Criminal Target.’ Trump Shouldn’t Celebrate Yet

'If Trump thinks he's safe, he is seriously mistaken'

By Martin London

Congress Should Impeach President Trump if He Refuses to Speak to Mueller

It conflicts with his Constitutional duty, writes a former lawyer for Spiro Agnew

By Martin London

How the President Can Be Prosecuted as a Criminal

What the Constitution does — and doesn't — say on presidential immunity

By Martin London

Spiro Agnew Lawyer: Everyone Has the Right to Criticize the President

Spiro Agnew's lawyer dissects Trump's flimsy cease and desist order

By Martin London

Donald Trump’s Lies Are Fatally Wounding Our Democracy

We now know that Donald Trump’s transition team had numerous pre-inauguration contacts with the Russians, and then lied about them. The latest disclosures of team emails, obtained by the New York Times, reveal that the...

By Martin London

Spiro Agnew's Lawyer: Paul Manafort Has Nothing to Fear

The legal poobahs are all aflutter, issuing statements as to how this is the classic first prosecutorial step: The prosecutor starts with a vulnerable target at the bottom and works his way up to the...

By Martin London

Why States Should Ban Guns From Political Rallies

The Constitution does not protect protestors marching armed through the streets

By Martin London
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