{"id":122273,"date":"2019-02-15T09:42:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T14:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=122273"},"modified":"2020-07-20T11:15:31","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T15:15:31","slug":"bates-in-the-news-feb-15-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2019\/02\/15\/bates-in-the-news-feb-15-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Bates in the News: Feb. 15, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joyce White Vance \u201982<\/h3>\n

Paul Manafort\u2019s day in court spells trouble for Trump \u2014 The Washington Post<\/em><\/h5>\n

In recent months, the news media have often turned to Joyce White Vance \u201982 to explain legal maneuverings in the ongoing investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections.<\/p>\n

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Law professor and former U.S. attorney Joyce Vance \u201982 speaks during a 2016 Bates panel on criminal justice reform in Maine. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n

A contributor to MSNBC and quoted frequently in outlets like NBC News, The New York Times<\/em>, and The Washington Post<\/em>,\u00a0 Vance served as a U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama from 2009 to 2017 and is now a Distinguished Professor of the Practice of Law at Culverhouse School of Law at the University of Alabama. She will be speaking at Bates<\/a> on March 21.<\/p>\n

As Politico<\/em> noted in a story last summer about the emergence of Vance and other legal experts<\/a>, their job is to “try to bring sanity to the whirlwind of information” about various aspects of the Mueller probe.<\/p>\n

Most recently, Vance has helped untangle issues raised by the news that former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort lied to prosecutors after his plea deal.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe open question is whether Manafort was freelancing or whether others from the campaign were involved” in contacts with the Russians in 2016, Vance tells The Washington Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n