Michael Meltsner

“I worry that Kushner, as well as other Trump family members, will gain financial advantage by using their status to suggest they can influence the administration’s policy,” says Michael Meltsner, professor of law at Northeastern University.

“…The only place where I would draw a line is: I don’t think he is authorized to pardon himself,” said Michael Meltsner, a Matthews University Professor of Law Emeritus at Northeastern University School of Law. Costas Panagopoulos, a political science professor at Northeastern University, said it’s likely the president-elect will either pardon or commute sentences […]

One can expect the defence will try and slow things down and deliberate as long as they possibly can,” said Michael Meltsner, a law professor at Northeastern University in Boston. “And then at some point, a trial date will be set.”

Michael Meltsner, a law professor at Northeastern University in Boston, said earlier this week that an appeal of the judge’s ruling would likely succeed but also carries risks.

Only one Supreme Court justice has ever been impeached, said Michael Meltsner, a professor at Northeastern University School of Law. 

MICHAEL MELTSNER Michael Meltsner is the Matthews Distinguished University Professor of Law at Northeastern University. He was one of the architects of the anti–capital punishment campaign that led to Furman v. Georgia and represented Muhammad Ali in the case that enabled him to return to boxing.

Michael Meltsner Cambridge, Mass. The writer is a professor of constitutional law at Northeastern University.

Massachusetts stands in stark contrast to a number of other states where governors have routinely commuted the sentences of inmates as part of a national trend to reduce mass incarceration, according to Michael Meltsner, a Northeastern University Law School professor. 

Michael Meltsner, a Northeastern University School of Law professor, said he met King years ago and is impressed by how he has matured in prison.

“The bizarre part of that dissent is that she seems to want to bar people from challenging discrimination and voter suppression because she thinks Congress used the wrong preposition in a statute,” said Michael Meltsner, the Matthews distinguished university professor of law at Northeastern University school of law.