The Social Security Administration, for example, said applications for lawyer positions and clerkships had more than doubled this year, to 2,000, from 800.
With regard to Mueller's broader investigation, the White House lawyers' position continues to be that President Trump didn't commit a crime because no one did — or could — because there is no federal crime called "collusion," and Rosenstein's order did not refer to any criminal statutes that may have been violated.
"I once briefly talked to him about malpractice, and he took the lawyers' position," he says.
The Justice Department said Mr. Lindh waived his right to talk to a lawyer, a position validated in court.
Paul G. Cassell, a former federal judge who teaches law at the University of Utah and specializes in victims' rights, contributed to a legal brief in support of the lawyer's position.
In a dissenting opinion, Justice Stephen G. Breyer said the lawyer's position was "the kind of representational incompatibility that is egregious on its face".
Justice Sonia Sotomayor sounded incredulous at the lawyer's position: "It is disconcerting to me that when I asked you the question directly should this material have been turned over, you gave an absolute no".
He also said that because the department viewed the questioning of the arrested demonstrators as "debriefings" rather than "interrogations," they were not entitled to a lawyer, a position with which Mr. Dunn and other civil liberties lawyers vehemently disagreed.
She has said nothing about a check from her account paid to Balco except that she did not sign it, and her lawyer's position seems to be: if you didn't catch us red-handed, you didn't catch us.
"If I was a defense lawyer, my position would be a) he was joking … of course he knows he's miked, it's ironic, or b) he's just in a daze, he's so confused, he's wondering if he might've killed them all," he said.
