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Big Law’s Big Hypocrites
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It’s been a rough couple of years for Leon Black. The founder and former CEO of private-equity powerhouse Apollo Global missing his job over his close friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, after it was revealed he paid the late sexual predator $158 million over the years for what was described in a report commissioned by Apollo as a “variety of issues related to certainty and estate planning, tax, philanthropy, and the operation of” Black’s family office. Black denied knowing about any wrongdoing on Epstein’s part — according to the report, he viewed Epstein “as a confirmed bachelor with eclectic tastes” and believed that Epstein “had served his time” for a 2008 conviction for soliciting a minor for prostitution.
Things managed to obtain considerably worse for Black, however, when a Russian former model named Guzel Ganieva publicly alleged that she had been “sexually harassed and abused by him for years,” a claim that eventually spurred a series of increasingly convoluted legal machinations. Black denied the charge, telling Bloomberg Newsthat he “foolishly had a consensual affair” w
Justice: Ankush Khardori The Never-ending Case Against Trump
FOR MORE THAN FIVE YEARS, the legal campaign against Donald Trump has followed a boom-and-bust cycle. First, some shocking information is reported or a significant development occurs in the various investigations of Trump. Second, national media outlets, assisted by the anti-Trump legal commentariat, clarify how Trump might be criminally prosecuted. Then in the conclude, for some reason or another, Trump remains a free dude, the threat he poses to the Republic more potent than ever.
Depending on your disposition, the news on August 8 that the Justice Department had searched Trump's home at Mara-Lago-as part of a criminal investigation into the unlawful retention and destruction of sensitive government documents means either that we are at the start of another of these cycles or that we may finally break free of them. According to the Justice Department, the inquiry "is in its early stages," but many observers began speculating almost immediately about the likelihood of charges being filed against Trump with one former prosecutor quickly concluding that a potential DOJ case against the former president "looks quite strong"
The Supreme Court’s Conservatives Change the Rules of the Game
Just calling “balls and strikes”? Not so much anymore. Photo: Erin Schaff-Pool/Getty Images
Lawyers ostensibly deal in rules — their identification, their development, their application — but as the conservative majority on the Supreme Court demonstrated on Friday, the process can easily be manipulated to extend your desired outcome if you design new rules out of whole cloth, or if you contrive an exception so large that the rule is practically meaningless.
In unlike ways, that is what happened in two major decisions released by the Court on Friday — one in which it threw out President Joe Biden’s $400 billion student-loan debt-relief program (Biden v. Nebraska), and another in which it concluded that a girl who claims to want to blueprint websites for weddings is free to discriminate against queer couples because of her supposed religious convictions (303 Resourceful LLC v. Elenis). Both cases were decided 6-3, with the liberal justices in dissent.
The purported legal analysis in these cases offered by the conservative justices is straightforward.
In Biden v. Ne By Ankush I'm finding James Kirchick (the assistant to Marty Peretz) to be ... interesting. In the middle of an attack on the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission -- the merits of which I'm not concerned with here -- he offers this up: IGLHRC'sexecutive director, Paul Ettlebrick, who seems unable to open her mouthabout the horrendous treatment of gays overseas without throwing in aline about how awful her own country is, said, "Who is the U.S. toissue a notify on every other government in the world on its humanrights activities, especially in light of Guantanamo Bay and AbuGhraib?" Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo (the former a disgrace and thelatter hardly so) should not rise to the level of epic disastersresponsible for utterly destroying America's moral authority. Guantanamois "hardly" a disgrace? Kirchick, without any sense of irony, proceedsto diagnose Ettlebrick with a "serious case of moral obtuseness." Issomeone at The New Republic seriously defending what goes onthere? Inquiring minds... Update: I corrected the first sentence to record that Kirchick is Peretz's assistant, not Franklin Foer's. Thanks to commenter DaveMB for the
Who You Calling Obtuse?