From his home in Gladwyne, via Cisco Webex, Philadelphia lawyer, Shanin Specter weighed in on the waiver that all attendees were required to sign before being allowed to enter the Bok Center in Tulsa for tonight’s Trump Rally. Specter appeared with Michael Smerconish on CNN this morning. “That waiver is certainly not enforceable. A court would find it to be against the public interest – against public policy and not enforce it,” Specter said.
Responding to a comment made by Tim Murtaugh, Trump’s Director of Communication, that such waivers are “standard,” Specter noted that “this might be the first political rally in American history where anyone was asked to sign a waiver of liability before going in.”
Specter is a founding partner of the law firm KlineSpecter (to which, as he mentioned during the broadcase, Smerconish is also affiliated). Specter’s father was Arlen Specter, who served two terms as Philadelphia District Attorney, and represented Pennsylvania in the U.S. Senate from 1981 until 2011.