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Trump's Elite Strike Force Lawyer Jenna Ellis Bombed Out Of Traffic Court

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“The number of cases in which the claimant committed an irreparable, egregious act was not significant compared to the total number of cases she processed,” wrote the hearing officer in Jenna Ellis’s 2013 unemployment claim. High praise, indeed.

“Doctor” Ellis, a self-described constitutional law attorney who represents the president on his Elite Strike Force, began her legal career in the Weld County Colorado District Attorney’s Office in August of 2012. The 2011 graduate of University of Richmond Law School spent her time prosecuting low-level misdemeanors until she was fired after just six months “because she refused to bring a case to trial that she believed was an unethical prosecution,” according the Wall Street Journal.

But the Colorado Sun went looking and found a slightly different version of the story in Ellis’s unemployment claim. Because you can’t bullsh*t a local reporter, so don’t even try.

In Colorado, government employees can’t collect unemployment insurance if they’ve been fired for cause. Apparently Ellis’s bosses, who terminated her for “unsatisfactory performance,” deemed her conduct sufficiently lousy that it should disqualify her from collecting unemployment. And they felt strongly enough to argue it twice before the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment.

But Jenna Ellis prevailed in the end because she was just too incompetent to be blamed for screwing up. Elite Strike Force, FTW!

While acknowledging “the appearance in case documentation the claimant did not follow proper protocol for some of the cases she handled,” including failure to comply with the Victim’s Rights Act, the hearing officer felt that “the claimant did the best she could with her education and training to meet the expectations of the employer.”

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The hearing officer concluded that “There are insufficient facts the claimant was not performing the duties to the best of her ability. There were some deficiencies in her education and experience that account for some of the errors she committed while learning on the job under high volume conditions.”

She did the best she could. And even though her best was crap, she got full unemployment benefits because, really, who could expect more from her?

By amazing coincidence, the Elite Strike Force has also done the best they could with their education and training but failed to meet the expectations of their employer. And when this is over, they, too will probably collect full benefits from the Right Wing Unemployment Board on the basis of “You Tried.”

Third verse, same as the first.

Jenna Ellis, President Trump’s lawyer, was fired from Weld County DA’s office for “mistakes,” records show [Colorado Sun]

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Elizabeth Dye lives in Baltimore where she writes about law and politics.

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