Jay Sekulow
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Government
Trump Lawyer Tells SCOTUS It's Illegal For Kids To Say Filthy Cusses
You know, to 'protect' the First Amendment. -
Law Schools
Donald Trump Pegs Law School Dean As Source Of Dingbat 'Pence Can Overturn Election' Theory
Not a great look for a law school to be handing out advice from the back of an 8kun message board. - Sponsored
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Government
Trump Taps Rudy Giuliani For SCOTUS Election Battle. LOL, Go For It Dude!
Elect a clown, expect a circus.
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Courts
Will One Of Trump's Impeachment Defense Lawyers Become A Supreme Court Justice?
This is apparently the talk of the town in some conservative circles. -
Government
Ken Starr And Alan Dershowitz Scheduled To Murder Irony At Senate Impeachment Trial
Well, they got Epstein off, so why not? -
Government
John Dowd Writes Letter In Comic Sans Because He's Through Pretending He's Not A Clown
Generally, lawyers don't conduct official business in Comic Sans, but we live in interesting times. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 03.27.19
* Attorney General William Barr says he plans to make a version of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report available to Congress and the public within a matter of weeks, and apparently the White House won’t be receiving a copy in advance of the release. [Wall Street Journal]
* Speaking of the Mueller report, Rudy Giuliani says he wouldn’t have any issues with releasing Trump’s written testimony that was submitted to Mueller. Jay Sekulow would beg to differ. [Washington Examiner]
* The EU approved the controversial Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive, a new IP law that will govern the way copyrighted material is uploaded online and who will be liable for infringement. At least memes are exempt? [BBC News]
* Congratulations to Bridget Bade, who was just confirmed to the Ninth Circuit. She’s the 37th circuit court judge to be appointed by President Trump, who is changing the makeup of the federal judiciary, one conservative judge at a time. [Big Law Business]
* Elon Musk must appear in court next week for a contempt hearing over his Tesla tweets against self-interest that are allegedly in breach of his settlement agreement with the Securities and Exchange Commission. [CNN]
* Your bracket may be busted, but this Biglaw associate has a near-perfect track record. She’s gotten 46 out of 48 matchups right thus far, and at one point she was one of just eight people in the country with a perfect bracket. [American Lawyer]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 03.26.19
* Trump’s DOJ now asking courts to overturn the entire ACA including ban on discrimination against pre-existing conditions in bid to capture the eugenics constituency. [NY Times]
* Mayer Brown alum mayoral candidate proposes higher taxes on Biglaw. [Chicago Sun-Tribune]
* Artists claim Marvel ripped off their Iron Man design claiming “Stan Lee’s original Iron Man was clad in spandex and ‘minimal armor.'” Someone actually filed a suit based on that theory. [Law360]
* Coming as a shock to no legal observer, Jay Sekulow doesn’t understand basics of law. [MSNBC]
* Michael Flynn owes around $5 million in legal fees. [New York Mag]
* The Los Angeles lateral market is hopping. [The Recorder]
* Someone’s finally suing Facebook for making every dumb media company think they needed to “pivot to video.” [Delaware Business Court Insider]
* Whistleblower accomplishes what UCF could not and makes Duke pay. [Corporate Counsel]
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Crime
Jay Sekulow Wrote Those Questions? He Really Is The Dumbest Lawyer In America
Mueller raised the prospect of a subpoena... we're entering uncharted constitutional ground now. -
White-Collar Crime
Now John Dowd May Have Criminal Exposure? Can These Guys Do Anything Right?
If the New York Times is right, John Dowd may need a lawyer of his own. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 02.06.18
* Waymo and Uber head to court in self-driving car battle. Uber’s characterizing Waymo’s allegations of industrial espionage as a conspiracy theory and hopes no one reads too much into the fact that Uber ran an industrial espionage group for years. [NPR]
* On February 2, Ropes & Gray was engaged by USA Gymnastics to investigate allegations of sexual abuse by Larry Nassar. Hey gang, we all loved the movie, but Groundhog Day doesn’t mean you actually get a do-over on all the stuff you screwed up before. [American Lawyer]
* John Dowd and Jay Sekulow don’t want Mueller to interview Trump. Ty Cobb thinks transparency and cooperation are the best policy. The existence of this story suggests Dowd and Sekulow are winning the internal struggle. [Business Insider]
* The Supreme Court isn’t going to intervene to protect Pennsylvania’s gerrymandered districts… [Courthouse News Service]
* … So, Pennsylvania Republicans are looking into impeaching the state supreme court justices who ruled against them. [Daily Intelligencer]
* Is this the least qualified lawyer to helm a Gitmo case? He certainly thinks so. [NY Times]
* Speaking of Gitmo, there’s a fight brewing over the Defense Department’s recent decision to strip prisoners of their rights to own their own art. [Hyperallergic]
* When the Brits refuse to extradite to the U.S., maybe it’s time to reconsider prison conditions. [The Intercept]
* Katten Munchin opens up in Dallas. [Law360]
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Government
Hey Y'All, Jay Sekulow May Have No F**king Clue What He's Doing
Trump's lawyer manages to put his foot in his mouth when "no comment" would have sufficed. -
Movies, Politics
Standard Of Review: Who Will Play Trump's Attorneys In The Inevitable Film?
A lot of old white men -- but which ones? Some thoughts from culture columnist Harry Graff.
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Politics, White-Collar Crime
Trump Has Experienced Lawyers, So Why Aren't They Running This Like A Real Legal Matter?
Trump's lawyers seem constantly behind and that doesn't make much sense. -
Biglaw, Politics
Kasowitz Checking Out Of Russiagate
After a tumultuous tenure, Marc Kasowitz is leaving Russiagate. -
Politics, White-Collar Crime
Jay Sekulow: Masterful Showman Or Terrible Attorney?
Spreading easily disproven lies on talk shows would seem like a major screwup. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 07.17.17
* Ty Cobb, a former federal prosecutor, has resigned from his post as a partner at Hogan Lovells to join President Trump’s legal team as the investigation into the campaign’s possible collusion with Russia continues to expand. Cobb, who’s related to the baseball player of the same name, leaves behind more than 30 years of history at the firm to collaborate with Marc Kasowitz, which should be interesting, to say the least. Dat stache, tho… [Bloomberg; New York Times]
* In other news, yet another member of President Trump’s legal team, Jay Sekulow, appeared on NBC’s Meet the Press and CBS’s Face the Nation yesterday in an attempt to solidify claims that his client, the commander-in-chief, had no knowledge of Don Jr.’s emails and meeting with the Russians, and that “there was nothing illegal to cover up” anyway. [Newsweek]
* Meanwhile, it looks like Trump’s lawyers knew about Don Jr.’s emails and meeting with the Russians more than three weeks ago, which makes the president’s assertion that he’d learned of it “a couple of days ago” all the more far fetched. In fact, per a recent FEC filing, President Trump’s reelection campaign paid $50,000 to Don Jr.’s criminal-defense lawyer, Alan Futerfas, on June 26, two weeks before the email scandal was made public. [Yahoo News; Daily Beast]
* “I think a politician or a public figure of note can have a Twitter account of public note which would not be deemed to be a public forum. But in the Trump Administration, what he says on his tweets are as much public in nature as a press conference.” Renowned First Amendment attorney Floyd Abrams explains why the litigants who sued President Trump for blocking their Twitter accounts might just have a shot when it comes to winning their case. [Big Law Business]
* “I wouldn’t rent to u if u were the last person on earth. One word says it all. Asian.” An Airbnb host has been taken to task by the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing after canceling a UCLA School of Law student’s cabin reservation based on race. Airbnb must also develop a discipline system for discriminatory hosts. We may have more on this later. [The Recorder]
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Politics
Jay Sekulow's Made Millions From His Charity And That Has A Lot Of Experts Very Concerned
Over $60 million in donations to his non-profit have gone back to Sekulow and his family. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 06.27.17
* Jared Kushner has hired Abbe Lowell to
negotiate his plearepresent him in the Russia probe. [Reuters]* Jay Sekulow convinced poor and jobless people to donate money to a non-profit and then funneled millions back to his family according to documents obtained by The Guardian. This is why you don’t hire lawyers because you like how they look on TV. [The Guardian]
* What law firms had the best go of it before the Supreme Court? [Law360]
* Speaking of the Supreme Court, get ready for a showdown over SEC ALJs. Feel the excitement! [National Law Journal]
* Happy 125th birthday to Quarles & Brady. [Big Law Business]
* Avvo client-linking services now banned in New Jersey. Apparently dumping toxic sludge is better than paying a marketing fee in New Jersey. [ABA Journal]
* Former State Attorney arrested for naked mayhem in hotel. If I had a dime… [Tallahassee Democrat]
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Politics, Television
The Jay Sekulow Ad That Got Trump To Hire Him
This ad for Trump's lawyer seems plausible.