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the actor hired a dream team of high-priced legal eagles to defend him against the charges
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Other legal eagles say the constitutionality of special counsels was established decades ago, when the Supreme Court turned away President Richard Nixon’s challenge to a special counsel investigating the Watergate affair.
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Dan Morrison, USA TODAY, 20 July 2024
The legal eagles who are allowed to pore over the aggregated documents will do so under a stringent need-to-know basis.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 21 June 2024
He is known among friends for his brilliance, for having navigated the straits between artist and legal eagle without losing an oar.
—Nicolaia Rips, The New Yorker, 21 June 2024
No legal eagle in America analyzed the 14th Amendment issue more comprehensively than our Dan McLaughlin.
—Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 11 Mar. 2024
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Dan Morrison, USA TODAY, 20 July 2024
The legal eagles who are allowed to pore over the aggregated documents will do so under a stringent need-to-know basis.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 21 June 2024
He is known among friends for his brilliance, for having navigated the straits between artist and legal eagle without losing an oar.
—Nicolaia Rips, The New Yorker, 21 June 2024
No legal eagle in America analyzed the 14th Amendment issue more comprehensively than our Dan McLaughlin.
—Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 11 Mar. 2024
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“Legal eagle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/legal%20eagle. Accessed 19 Aug. 2024.
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