Confirmation U.S. is a thugocracy? This name has never appeared @DP Forum. "Whatever you do to the least of my people, you do to me."

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Don McGahn had one foot out the door because he thought Trump was ‘crazy’ — but law firm boss pressured him to stay

Don McGahn was ready to quit as White House counsel for Donald Trump until the managing partner of an influential conservative law firm persuaded him to stay.McGahn had been personally responsible for picking Trump's judges, whose ranks he filled with conservatives approved by the Federalist...

www.rawstory.com

August 25, 2022
"...McGahn had been personally responsible for picking Trump's judges, whose ranks he filled with conservatives approved by the Federalist Society, and gutting the administrative state, but less than six months into the job he was growing increasingly frustrated with handling the former president's legal problems, according to excerpts from the new book "Servants of the Damned" published by the New York Times Magazine. ....

"For his part, McGahn was growing worried about his own potential legal exposure — especially when Trump in June 2017 pushed him to fire Mueller," wrote author David Enrich. "McGahn refused and contemplated quitting. Around then, he called [Jones Day managing partner.... The president was crazy, McGahn fumed. Maybe, he ventured, he should cut his losses and return to Jones Day."

Barr Turns to Jones Day, Trump Official in Jan. 6 Testimony (1)​

https://news.bloomberglaw.com › business-and-practice
Jun 10, 2022 — Francisco and Jones Day partner Eric Snyder flanked him on each side in the video, played during the first of several primetime hearings planned ...



I was unaware of the name of "the don," of TFG and Don Mcghan until a few hours ago. I suspect it is because he has gone to great lengths to conceal how much misery he has brought to MAGA America. As far as I can tell, he answers to no one and is the sole authority in his secretive law partnership. A trustee of his alma mater law school, he may have done more to torment the poorest women of childbearing age in the U.S. than any other RWE, perhaps aside from McConnell. He's protected Big Tobacco, the Big Lie, greenlighted the candidacy of the Big Liar to the G.O.P. establishment in 2016, and protected the financial interests of the Sackler family.

 

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How lawyers from Jones Day influenced Trump's ... - NPR​

https://www.npr.org › transcripts
18 hours ago — This was how Roe v. Wade was overturned. ...

How a Corporate Law Firm Led a Political Revolution​

https://www.nytimes.com › magazine › jones-day-trump
Aug 25, 2022 — Jones Day helped him solidify Republican support by pledging to pick federal judges from a list that was ...

U.S. Solicitor General Noel Francisco Returns to Jones Day (1)​

https://news.bloomberglaw.com › us-law-week › u-s-sol...
Jul 15, 2020 ...

Couple’s Suit Over Parental Leave Is New Challenge to Big Law Firm (Published 2019)

Jones Day is accused of unlawfully dismissing a lawyer who questioned a gender disparity in its policies, and underpaying his wife when she worked there.

www.nytimes.com

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By Noam Scheiber
Aug. 14, 2019

"Jones Day, one of the nation’s largest law firms, faced a harsh spotlight this year when six female lawyers filed a class-action complaint saying they had faced gender and pregnancy discrimination while working there and had been subjected to a “fraternity culture.”
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The plaintiffs are Mark C. Savignac and Julia Sheketoff, who worked in the firm’s elite appellate practice in Washington. Their lawsuit asserts that Jones Day’s policy unlawfully denied Mr. Savignac the full leave he was entitled to after their son was born in January and that it unlawfully fired him when he complained about the policy.

“I was shocked; we truly never considered that they would fire me,” Mr. Savignac said. “We thought the law was so obvious.”
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Jones Day’s policy is at odds with a trend in which companies are increasingly eliminating the distinction between fathers and mothers or primary and secondary caregivers. ..

Jones Day has risen to prominence in recent years thanks partly to its ties to President Trump, whose campaigns it has represented. Several lawyers joined the administration from the firm, including Donald F. McGahn II, Mr. Trump’s first White House counsel.
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According to the lawsuit, after Jones Day fired Mr. Savignac, it refused to allow two partners who had worked closely with him and previously praised his work to recommend him to prospective employers. Mr. Savignac said he had applied to dozens of firms without receiving an offer before accepting an offer in June. Ms. Sheketoff left the firm while pregnant last year to work for a public defender’s office, where she took a substantial pay cut.

Separately, the couple contends that the firm paid Ms. Sheketoff less than it would have paid a man because of her gender. The complaint says that Ms. Sheketoff received a smaller raise than she otherwise would have in 2017 after a negative evaluation from a male partner who scolded her for being insufficiently deferential. The partner did not scold male associates who failed to defer to him, according to the complaint.

Ms. Sheketoff was at Jones Day for almost four years, and Mr. Savignac was there about 20 months.

Their allegations echo those in the class-action complaint against Jones Day, filed in April, that spoke of a “fraternity culture.” That lawsuit, pending in federal court, contends that women who give birth face obstacles to advancement at the firm and that women who have a second child are often asked to leave within a few months of returning to work.

Both lawsuits describe a “black box” compensation system in which the firm’s managing partner, Stephen J. Brogan, sets pay for associates. The complaints argue that this system enables pay discrimination against women.

Most large firms pay associates according to a so-called lock step system, said David Lat, a managing director at the legal recruiting firm Lateral Link. Under that approach, salaries are based on seniority, although bonuses can vary.

In a legal filing responding to the class-action complaint, Jones Day said that Mr. Brogan performs “a high-level review of proposed associate compensation adjustments” and denied that the system results in lower pay for women.

The firm said two plaintiffs in the earlier lawsuit had been asked to leave the firm after the birth of a second child because of “performance issues.”

Both Ms. Sheketoff and Mr. Savignac were clerks at the United States Supreme Court before joining Jones Day, which typically hires more former Supreme Court clerks than any other firm.

Ms. Sheketoff and Mr. Savignac said Jones Day had enlisted them to recruit other former clerks and extol the virtues of working in the firm’s appellate practice. “I feel bad about having worked to persuade other people who may have been misled,” Mr. Savignac said..."

 

[aociswundumho]

Confirmation U.S. is a thugocracy?

Every government is a thugocracy. Every government on the planet runs a protection racket in order to fund itself.

 

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Every government is a thugocracy. Every government on the planet runs a protection racket in order to fund itself.

G.O.P. radicalization is greatest threat to world's stability.

next time a liberal brags about how College Professors are liberal

You know, because the left is so 'smart. Show them this. https://www.thecollegefix.com/supreme-court-founded-to-defend-white-supremacy-should-be-abolished-race-scholar/ Supreme Court ‘founded to defend white supremacy,’ should be abolished: race scholar After winning an election with a majority...

debatepolitics.com

 

[aociswundumho]

G.O.P. radicalization is greatest threat to world's stability.

next time a liberal brags about how College Professors are liberal

You know, because the left is so 'smart. Show them this. https://www.thecollegefix.com/supreme-court-founded-to-defend-white-supremacy-should-be-abolished-race-scholar/ Supreme Court ‘founded to defend white supremacy,’ should be abolished: race scholar After winning an election with a majority...

debatepolitics.com

How does that link have anything to do with what I wrote?

 

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Where's the "I like Trump's policies but not his character" option?

Also, one of the things that is part of the "thugocracy" are the various bureaucracies (FDA, FCC, EPA, DOE, ect) of the Executive Branch that operates in place of the Legislative Branch, creating de facto laws way more than Congress does. Under Trump many of these agencies were gutted to various degrees and the left lost their shit over it. That's the opposite of a "thugocracy".

 

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Traci Lovitt seemed in the running to succeed Brogan as Jones, Day autocrat.

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/busin...er-said-to-step-down-four-possible-successors
March 31, 2022,
"..The list of likely candidates includes Traci Lovitt, .., and Greg Shumaker, ...
Jones Day’s managing partner is granted more authority than at virtually any other major law firm. The leader has the authority to “make all management decisions,” the firm’s website says, including the right to select the next leader.

That autonomy makes it nearly impossible even for current Jones Day partners to know ..”

https://news.bloomberglaw.com › business-and-practice › traci-lovitt-to-succeed-stephen-brogan-at-jones-day-suit-claims

Traci Lovitt to Succeed Stephen Brogan at Jones Day, Suit Claims​

Feb 25, 2022 Traci Lovitt will succeed Stephen Brogan as managing partner of Jones Day, two former firm associates allege in a lawsuit. Lovitt, .. leads the issues and appeals practice group, which handles U.S. Supreme Court ... She is "Brogan's designee to succeed him as the firm's managing partner," according to a complaint ., .

Here are Traci and spouse Ara, engaged in a tagteam effort to put apply lipstick to the pig,

https://floridapolitics.com › archives › 370108-amy-coney-barrett-likely-high-court-pick-is-antonin-scalias-heir

Amy Coney Barrett, likely high court pick, is Antonin Scalia's heir​

Ara Lovitt, who clerked with her at the time, .. Scalia had high praise for her. "'Isn't Amy great,'" Lovitt remembers Scalia saying....

https://law.nd.edu › news-events › news › nd-law-school-hosts-investiture-of-judge-amy-coney-barrett

Classes 1990-1999 | The Law School | University of Notre Dame​

Ara Lovitt, .., "This was high praise coming from Justice Scalia, who used to say all of us law clerks were fungible," Lovitt said, drawing laughs from the audience.

https://www.washingtontimes.com › news › 2020 › oct › 11 › amy-coney-barrett-scrutinized-over-religion-vs-law

Amy Coney Barrett scrutinized over religion vs. law​

Oct 11, 2020 Traci Lovitt, who met Judge Barrett when they clerked at the Supreme Court in 1998, said Judge Barrett did keep her faith separate. "She was not one to bring her religion to work," Ms. Lovitt...

https://www.judiciary.senate.gov › imo › media › doc › 37. Traci Lovitt_Redacted.pdf
JONES DAY Page 2 My admiration only grew as Amy became Professor Barrett ... Traci L. Lovitt

https://www.nytimes.com › 2022 › 08 › 25 › magazine › jones-day-trump.html

How a Corporate Law Firm Led a Political Revolution​

The untold story of Jones Day’s push to move the American government and courts to the right.
Aug 25, 2022
"..in June, Traci Lovitt hosted a 50th birthday party for her husband, Ara, at their 9,800-square-foot Westchester mansion.. The couple met while clerking for Supreme Court justices: Traci for Sandra Day O’Connor, Ara for Antonin Scalia. These days, .. Traci .. a contender to one day run — .. Jones Day, best known for representing Donald Trump’s presidential campaigns. ...the party’s biggest star. That distinction belonged to Justice Amy Coney Barrett.

One day earlier, Barrett and four of her colleagues on the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, ending the constitutional right..."