I'm a rich Democratic lawyer. Here's why I wrote a fawning op-ed about Trump's SCOTUS nominee.
Really, it's just because I like the guy. Why don't you believe me?
IAN MILLHISER AUG 3, 2018, 8:00 AM
The following is a response to a Politico op-ed by Supreme Court litigator Lisa Blatt, entitled “I’m a Liberal Feminist Lawyer. Here’s Why Democrats Should Support Judge Kavanaugh.”
Sometimes a superstar is just a superstar. And sometimes a superstar is a powerful Republican with the power to decide whether my clients will win or lose billions of dollars. That is the case with Judge Brett Kavanaugh. The Senate should confirm him.
I am a partner a law firm where “profits per partner measured out at almost $1.2 million in 2017.” Because I am a liberal Democrat and feminist, I expect my friends on the left will criticize me for speaking up for Kavanaugh. But my clients will all benefit from having smart, qualified and engaged judges on our highest court who feel like I did them a solid by trading on my liberal credentials in order to boost their chances of getting confirmed.
Those clients, by the way, include Philip Morris and PhRMA. I’m also “the legal mind behind the Redskins ‘Take Yo Panties Off’ trademark defense.”
What happened to Merrick Garland was a disgrace. His nomination was the Democratic equivalent of Kavanaugh’s. Well, I guess they’re kind of the same. Okay, really they are only equivalent if you completely ignore how they’ve behaved on the bench.
https://thinkprogress.org/im-a-rich-democratic-lawyer-heres-why-i-wrote-a-fawning-op-ed-about-a-scotus-nominee/
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so please, liberal democrats, please put your principles aside and do my clients like death-dealing philip morris a solid and let us put a maybe-he's-not-quite-a-nazi on the supreme court for the next 50 years.
