As lawyers watching the spectacle of the investigations surrounding the Trump administration, we get to sit in the good seats. We understand the rules of the game and we can follow the action. But however entertaining this game may be, as lawyers we know that two things matter: facts based on reliable, admissible evidence and the just administration of the rule of law. No matter what our political views, we have sworn an oath to uphold these principles.

So how are the lawyers who are involved in these cases doing in upholding their oaths? Since my last Professional Conduct column focusing on the issues raised by the Michael Cohen case, Rudy Giuliani has entered the scene as the president’s lawyer, representing him in both the Department of Justice’s special counsel investigation and the Stormy Daniels case. Leaving for another day the inconsistent explanations Giuliani has provided for the payments to Daniels (see The New York Times article “Trump Undercuts Giuliani About Payments to Stormy Daniels”), we turn to two of Giuliani’s recent comments, one ascribing unconstitutional abuses and illegal motivations to Special Counsel Robert Mueller and one about the credibility of Stormy Daniels.