By Ronald Rotunda
Washington Post
July 28, 2017
Ronald Rotunda is a professor at Chapman University’s Fowler School of Law.
Nearly two decades ago, then-independent counsel Kenneth Starr asked me to evaluate whether a federal grand jury could indict a sitting president — in that case, Bill Clinton. My answer — that such an action would be permissible — was recently unearthed in response to a Freedom of Information Act request from the New York Times, and it may have relevance for a new special counsel and the current president.