Coming to PALC on November 18, 2019

Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice

Sidney Powell was an Assistant United States Attorney and Appellate Section Chief, serving under nine United States Attorneys from both political parties. She is a past-president of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers and of the Bar Association of the Fifth Federal Circuit. After almost ten years with the Department of Justice, she went into private practice, and she has been lead counsel in more than 500 federal appeals.

She wrote and self-published LICENSED TO LIE: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice in 2014 after seeing a core group of federal prosecutors break all the rules, make up crimes, hide evidence, and send innocent people to prison. The book reads like a legal thriller, but it names the prosecutors who then rose to positions of great power and the judges who turned a blind eye to their abuses of unfettered power. She continues to write articles on government misconduct and prosecutorial misconduct for The Daily Caller, the Observer, the Hill, Fox News, and other outlets, and she appears regularly on radio and television to give legal commentary on issues of national importance. A senior fellow of the London Center for Policy Research, she is co-authoring a book now with Harvey Silverglate, author of Three Felonies A Day, on criminal justice reform.