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(11,588 posts)Jeffersons Ghost
(15,235 posts)That's a Twitter account to follow. I used to enjoy her radio show.
OMGWTF
(3,981 posts)Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)lark
(23,182 posts)They sicken me, every one of them.
AwakeAtLast
(14,134 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,099 posts)She spends a good part of the two hours on the subject, and lays it all out. Very enlightening.
spanone
(135,914 posts)cheating motherfuckers
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)Most big law firms are not terribly partisan.
Most big law partners operate fairly independently -- big partners are like little businesses inside the firms. They raise their own money, find their own clients.
Kirkland and Ellis isn't bad as a firm.
What firms all care about is MONEY. They are mostly all craven tools of billionaires. If corporations and billionaires throw money at them, they'll do their bidding.
What we need are stronger rules about money in politics - dark money that influences both politicians and firms.
That said, I think the Concord defender attorneys, who are literally taking Russian money to prosecute a case against America, should be fired by their firm immediately.
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)THESE two attorneys are literally taking Russian money to prosecute a case against America.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/07/mueller-probe-concord-management-1085285
By JOSH GERSTEIN 01/07/2019 01:20 PM EST
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A judge publicly slammed the defense lawyers for a Russian company criminally charged by special counsel Robert Mueller, accusing the firms attorneys of submitting unprofessional and inappropriate court filings attacking Muellers office and of unwisely peppering legal briefs with jarring quotes taken from movies like Animal House.
Ill say it plain and simple: knock it off, U.S. District Court Judge Dabney Friedrich told lawyers for the Russian company, Concord Management and Consulting, at a brief court hearing in Washington Monday morning.
The tone and content of the submissions from Concords combative attorneys, Eric Dubelier and Kate Seikaly, in past months has been unusual for lawyers practicing in federal court. A filing last week quoted both the British 19th Century historian Lord Acton and a slightly sanitized expletive uttered by the somewhat less erudite Otter, a fraternity brother in the 1970s classic Animal House.
https://abovethelaw.com/2018/05/the-biglaw-firm-behind-the-russian-trolls-indicted-in-the-mueller-probe/
FakeNoose
(32,840 posts)This is from their Wikipedia page. Look who's first on the list!
Brett Kavanaugh - Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Robert Bork - former Judge of the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and former Solicitor General under President Richard Nixon[25]
Michael J. Garcia - Associate Judge of the New York Court of Appeals
Jeff Wall - Principal Deputy Solicitor General and former acting Solicitor General under President Donald Trump
Paul Clement - former Solicitor General under President George W. Bush
Ken Starr - Whitewater special prosecutor and former Solicitor General under President George H. W. Bush
William P. Barr - 85th United States Attorney General under President Donald Trump and former 77th United States Attorney General under President George H.W. Bush.[26]
Pat Cipollone - incoming White House Counsel under President Donald Trump
Neil Eggleston - former White House Counsel under President Barack Obama
Alex Azar - Secretary of Health and Human Services under President Donald Trump
Alexander Acosta - Secretary of Labor under President Donald Trump
John R. Bolton - National Security Advisor under President Donald Trump[27]
Erica MacDonald - United States Attorney for the District of Minnesota under President Donald Trump
Brian Benczkowski - Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division under President Donald Trump
Beth Ann Williams - Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Policy under President Donald Trump
Steven Engel - Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel under President Donald Trump
Jeffrey A. Rosen - Deputy Secretary of Transportation under President Donald Trump and nominee to be Deputy Attorney General
Steven G. Bradbury - General Counsel of the Department of Transportation under President Donald Trump
Nathan Sales - Coordinator for Counterterrorism under President Donald Trump
Mark Filip - forrmer Judge of the District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and former Deputy Attorney General under President George W. Bush
Viet D. Dinh - Chief Legal Officer at 21st Century Fox[28], former Assistant Attorney General under President George W. Bush and chief architect of the USA PATRIOT Act
Robert S. Khuzami - Deputy United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York[29], former Director of the Division of Enforcement of the Securities and Exchange Commission and former General Counsel of Deutsche Bank
Timothy Muris - former Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission under President George W. Bush
Jay Lefkowitz - former Special Envoy for Human Rights in North Korea and Director of Cabinet Affairs under President George W. Bush
Dallin H. Oaks - member of the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Christopher Landau
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkland_%26_Ellis
See any Democrats on here?
MagickMuffin
(15,972 posts)I don't know anything about him though, he did serve President Obama.
But the largest percentage were appointed by pResident Trumpery.
Farmer-Rick
(10,222 posts)Each consecutive RepubliCON president is worse than the last. Each gathering together the minions of the last criminal presidential gang. Promoting the other's henchmen, secretly hiding them from the law when out of power. Each new rendition more criminal, more traitorous, more corrupt than the last because No One held them accountable.
Only one was an attempted impeachment. In some, prosecution began after they had trampled the government and the law into the ground, after they had already left office. In others, when the opposition had finally defeated them, they intimidated the other party into declaring no one would be held accountable, no one ould be impeached, no torturers would be prosecuted.
So, now the mosters wonder through the political landscape hurting and maiming, abusing and torturing, stealing and conning. They break the law without punishment getting bigger and bigger, corrupting everything they touch.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)fascisthunter
(29,381 posts)just in case there is no hell.
littlemissmartypants
(22,841 posts)Barr acts like he's over and above the entire proceeding, like he's missing his 5 pm cognac. He's definitely a liar, like the rest of them.