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Earlier this yr, a disciplinary committee concluded that former Trump DOJ flunky Jeff Clark violated ethics guidelines, bolstering the DC Disciplinary Counsel’s effort to disbar Clark for good. Clark, a DOJ environmental lawyer, tried to persuade Trump to nominate him Appearing Legal professional Basic so he may shoot out a bunch of phony voter fraud claims underneath official letterhead and provides state legislatures cowl to toss their election outcomes and bless Trump elector slates.
This effort ran aground when ACTUAL GROWN UP LAWYER Deputy Legal professional Basic Richard Donoghue infamously informed Clark, “You’re an environmental lawyer. How about you return to your workplace, and we’ll name you when there’s an oil spill.”
Unsurprisingly, his actions sparked an ethics inquiry that he tried to avoid by claiming that DC ethics guidelines simply don’t apply to him. The courtroom was not sympathetic.
In any occasion, Clark is utilizing this liminal zone as he awaits the opposite shoe falling in his disciplinary case to supply his “knowledgeable” opinion about Kamala Harris’s authorized profession.
So the California Legal professional Basic and the California Solicitor Basic are two totally different jobs? Checkmate libs!
There’s a trace of non-public beef driving this extremely silly mission:
I word that I discover it an insult that she sat in judgment on the second Senate Judiciary Committee vote on my nomination to affix the management of the Justice Division in early 2018 (she voted in opposition to me, however I nonetheless obtained out of Committee).
Chuck Grassley chaired that committee and didn’t even go to regulation faculty which each looks like way more of an expert insult and helps clarify why he voted for Clark’s nomination.
By the best way, if you happen to’re on the lookout for a free lesson in unhealthy authorized analysis, Clark reveals his work!
Eh? A transcript may have been entered into PACER. Crackerjack work.
There aren’t habeas instances that go into blasting the trial prosecutor by title? That’s… not really bizarre. If something, it speaks effectively of how she dealt with the trial part of instances.
Somebody with primary authorized competence identified how utterly silly this inquiry was and Clark, true to kind, doubled down:
What an absolute frigging ding dong.
Bailey and Kobach argue nonsensical and embarrassing positions that even this Supreme Courtroom routinely kick to the curb. Perhaps not one of the best fashions for this effort.
And DA workplaces definitely argue appeals, however they’ve entire departments devoted to appeals. Maybe for this reason Harris, the pinnacle of the workplace, wouldn’t be the one going to the courthouse for oral argument.
Now, one among our two main events has nominated Kamala to be President. She wasn’t certified to sit down on the Senate Judiciary Committee, not to mention be Commander in Chief or Justice of the Peace in Chief, or to pick future Supreme Courtroom Justices — which she is going to choose an terrible lot of if she will get elected after which packs the Supreme Courtroom, as she has stated she plans to do.
However, like, Justice of the Peace in chief isn’t a job. Notably Donald Trump hasn’t argued an attraction both — although he has given an ersatz closing argument at trial — so I’m curious how he passes Clark’s imaginary Justice of the Peace in chief bar.
This doesn’t even make sense as some type of resume GOTCHA since Harris isn’t campaigning on profitable appeals, she’s campaigning on operating profitable prosecutorial workplaces. Nothing about Clark’s “Wikipedia Brown Junior Detective” nonsense undermines that.
So she didn’t micromanage one of many largest authorized workplaces within the nation? Cool story.
Oh… yet one more factor!
On reflection, perhaps we shouldn’t name this man when there’s an oil spill both. How about you return to your workplace, and we’ll name you when there’s a closing sanction choice in your disciplinary case.
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