Who is key Trump lawyer Ken Starr?

This appeared in The Millennial Source

Just days before the impeachment trial of United States President Donald Trump was set to begin, former special counsel Ken Starr was added to the president’s defense team.

The New York Times reported that Starr’s role will be to argue that the impeachment of Trump was done without sufficient legal grounds. It is a reversal of roles for Starr, whose previous role in the impeachment of a president was prosecutorial.

It was the Starr Report, investigated and compiled by Starr as independent counsel, that led to the impeachment of former President Bill Clinton.

Ken Starr’s career as a lawyer

The Texas-born Starr studied at George Washington University and Brown University before receiving his doctorate from Duke University School of Law. Following his graduation, he was a law clerk for Chief Justice Warren Burger.

His legal career involved a private practice before he was nominated by then-president Ronald Reagan to be a judge on the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He served in that capacity from 1983 to 1989, at which time he was nominated by President George H.W. Bush to be the solicitor general of the United States.