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Thank you so much for your service and also for knowing when to pack it in.
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Call out your Republican colleagues on the floor. Most are shameless cowards but some might have a shred of decency left. A lot of Republicans were stooging for Nixon until close to the end also.
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I'm not holding my breath, but I'd give $20 and my guess is there are thousands of other people who might. This feels like something that would be more efficient to do at scale.
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Is someone raising money for all these people to not be buried under legal fees? It would be great if doing the right thing wasn't financially brutal.
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Appreciate that you are a troll, but people shouldn't participate in a conversation with you on this topic until you demonstrate that you understand the basic meaning of due process. No point in a back-and-forth if words mean different things. So, in your own words, what does due process mean?
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You clearly do not understand the basic meaning of due process.
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It's depressing that this might be the best avenue, but even Joe Rogan was appalled that this happened and assumed we would try to bring him back. A prominent dem needs to reach out to Joe Rogan and point out that the administration is deliberately not doing this.
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100% people collaborating like Bukele need to be reminded that Trump will not be in forever forever, and because of what the administration is doing now, the norms around retribution and punishment are going to allow so much more flexibility and creativity in terms of how we treat peple like Bukele.
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This needs to happen. Also need to remind Bukele that Trump will not be president forever no matter how hard he tries, and Bukele will face US justice if this continues a minute further.
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This is the Blackwater guy. He feels no shame.
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Also, the minimum penalty for these people is they have to do this for every administration, but I’m still not sure that’s enough.
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Next administration should 100% expect to receive at least as much in free legal services.
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Anyone who stayed for longer than three months after the date of capitulation for any of these firms should be automatically disqualified from working in any future administration or DOJ that believes in the rule of law. Not enough to oppose the decision.
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They won't but there is still unforgiveable unjust enrichment taking place.
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There needs to be a genuine policy proposal developed for how the next administration will deal with these firms. At a minimum they need to do at least this much free legal work for the next administration's pet causes. But I think there needs to be appropriate compensation to the firms not caving.
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Senator could have eaten him alive. So disappointed in our senators right now. They just can’t execute
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Why is the senator such a wimp about it though? why does he let this guy try to screw around like this. Perfect example of why we need younger senators. He should be all over this guy, telling him it’s a yes or no question and pummeling him for not answering. Shit performance by the senator also.
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Backyard furnace steel is only way to strong economy.
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This should surprise nobody. He doesn’t care about soldiers. He thinks they’re suckers.
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Yeah, but you’re not craven enough to agree to serve in this admin in the first place.
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And we need to broaden this coalition to anyone willing to stand up for democracy and the rule of law.
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Think we need to think about things in terms of pro- and anti-democracy channels. I love The Bulwark but I wouldn't call it progressive.
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He keeps saying "from my client" like he's trying to get away with suggesting he had no knowledge simply because specific people didn't tell him in a specific conversation. Question needs to be whether Ensign had any knowledge at all.
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Boasberg needs to ask if Ensign otherwise knew about planes in the air. He keeps saying "my clients didn't tell me that planes were in the air."
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100% agree. I don't care if Elon steps away completely now. Nothing could get me to do it.
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It is depressing but if I were her I would try to talk to Joe Rogan. He is sympathetic to this and would likely be the most effective at pressuring the administration to bring her husband back.
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All of these people are pathetic stooges, but it's weird how passionate this guy gets when he's gargling the leaders tenders. It's visceral. One of many reasons I'm not a billionaire is because I clearly don't have the mindset. Baffling to me what the point is if you're still kissing someone's ass.
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Patient had certain flaws and minor imperfections. Surgeon handled by amputating all limbs and draining all blood. Surgeon will accepts bribes for small doses of anesthesia.
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When the Trump regime falls, there needs to be compensation paid by these caving firms to the firms that stood for the rule of law. It can’t go back to business as usual until that wrong has been corrected. It is not punishment, just restitution.
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Couple of questions:
1. Seems like the cavers have high-volume M&A practices relative to the others (lots of PE clients). How much of this do we think is client fear of anti-trust approval being held up?
2. Have any high profile partners at these firms spoken up (e.g., Loretta Lynch, Jeh Johnson)?
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cowards.
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Think it needs to be made very clear to the president of El Salvador that the next POTUS is going to make him pay. I don’t care if he isn’t in office anymore. His casual cruelty and nose-thumbing at US judges shouldn’t go unpunished.
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They need other firms to cave b/c every Am Law 50 firm that doesn’t further highlights how terrible & short-sighted this decision was. If only 1 or 2 stands up, they can try to hide in the group. Every firm that doesn’t cave and survives is proof that their self-imposed debasement was unnecessary.
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We do and we’re horrified and it sucks
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100%. the main judgment of this capitulation won’t occur now in the early days of chaos & confusion. The lasting judgment of decisions that German businessmen made in ‘38 took place post-Hitler, when the moral horror of the decisions wasn’t obfuscated. The excuses won’t work on ur grandkids in 2040
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Zero chance of this. I hire outside counsel at firms like this frequently and I can’t worry that they might cave when things get difficult. Why would you risk this. What if they’re threatened with another EO if they don’t bail on you as a client.
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Also, of course it’s stressful. It wouldn’t be brave to stand up to bullies if it was easy. But Perkins is doing is right now. And the way you caved was a total betrayal of Perkins, which expected you to help. I would never retain someone I thought would bail on me as you did.
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If Skadden fights it is going to make Paul Weiss look even more pathetic. It’s also the only way to save the profession.
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WHY DOES IT HAVE TO BE THE SUPREME COURT? It is any court of competent jurisdiction. Schumer is moving the goalposts because he’s afraid & wants to avoid going to the mat. He needs to step down. He may have been good at this in another time but he is bad at the things that are needed right now.
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How about if Homan is proven wrong he gets to go down and spend a couple of months in that prison.
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Yup, nobody saw color during Boston busing riots in the 1970s or the Willie Horton ad in the 1980s.
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So he betrayed a vulnerable business that had an excellent reason to expect his firm’s help? Does this firm expect clients to trust it? If you’re crazy enough to hire Paul Weiss you should be prepared.l for betrayal of trust.
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I’m an in-house lawyer at a large corporation. We hire lots of Am Law 50 firms. I don’t care if they have DEI programs or which political party lawyers at the firm may have represented in the past. It’s not relevant. I care deeply and would never hire one that caves so easily.
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I’m an in-house lawyer at a large corporation. We hire lots of Am Law 50 firms. I don’t care if they have DEI programs or which political party lawyers at the firm may have represented in the past. It’s not relevant. I care deeply and would never hire one that caves so easily.
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I bet Susan Collins is very concerned, and might be so outraged by this that she could upgrade that to gravely concerned. Highly confident she’s going to fight hard for Maine here.
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I’m an in-house lawyer at a large corporation. We hire lots of Am Law 50 firms. I don’t care if they have DEI programs or which political party lawyers at the firm may have represented in the past. It’s not relevant. I care deeply and would never hire one that caves so easily.
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But you do?
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They seem to think the one down there is an okay place to send people, so that should do for them.
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Also, regimes ALWAYS fall. Sometimes it takes decades, but it happens (Libya, Syria, etc). Things don't go well for their enablers when it does (Libya, Syria, etc). The guardrails are there for when you're not in power.
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Her son-in-law is a billionaire. Literally. That's why she doesn't need to call when her check doesn't show up. It's a trivial amount of money to her.