Fogbow

I’m beginning to see why Trump locked in on Jeff to take over DOJ to try and overturn the election. I also see why most of the senior leadership at DOJ said they would resign if he did.

Trump’s Attorney-General-Who-Never-Was is so proud of his pat on the head from the cult leader.

Kendra wrote: ↑Mon Sep 26, 2022 7:06 pm

Former senior DOJ official Jeffrey Clark has lost his bid to pause his attorney discipline case in DC while all the other Jan. 6-related investigations are pending: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/ ... -clark.pdf

Previously: https://bloomberg.com/news/articles/202 ... rk-advance

The DC Board on Professional Responsibility is currently livestreaming (!!!) a pre-hearing conference in Jeff Clark's bar discipline case

RTH10260 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 13, 2022 10:28 am Wikipedia has now become the final arbiter on law?

I thought every high school student gets to hear that they cannot base their homework on that website.

Taking a quote from McPherson out of context, Texas suggests that this plenary power permits a state legislature to nullify the will of the electorate and select its own electors . . . . There is no support in McPherson for such an extraordinarily antidemocratic proposition."

And there are exactly two people to blame for this: Kevin McCarthy and Jim Jordan - for making the monumentally foolish decision to order their caucus to refuse to participate. You reap what your corruption sows.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Justice Department attorney Jeffrey Bossert Clark asked a federal court on Monday to intervene in a legal disciplinary case pending against him over his efforts to help former President Donald Trump overturn his 2020 election loss.

In his lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Clark argues that the District of Columbia Court of Appeals and the local bodies of the D.C. Bar responsible for filing and adjudicating disciplinary proceedings against attorneys do not have the jurisdiction to bring ethics charges against him.

Clark, who previously led the Justice Department's Environment and Natural Resources Division and temporarily led the Civil Division, argues that "no state possesses the power to supervise the internal operations and deliberations of any branch of the federal government."

The D.C. Bar is still collecting evidence against Clark, and earlier this month subpoenaed additional documents, including "any documents supporting the contention that you were Acting Attorney General on January 3, 2021."

In a statement, one of Clark's attorneys said the ethics case against Clark represents a "flagrant misuse" of the disciplinary function and sets a "dangerous precedent."

Greatgrey wrote: ↑Mon Oct 17, 2022 7:39 pm IANAL, but not really sure he’s gonna get better treatment in the DC District where the judges have all been hearing case after case about Jan 6 & the big lie.

bob wrote: ↑Mon Oct 17, 2022 7:44 pm But Clark will get delay, especially if there's an appeal following the dennnial.

chancery wrote: ↑Mon Oct 17, 2022 8:08 pmYou think either the district court or the D.D. Circuit would stay the order of remand?

bob wrote: ↑Mon Oct 17, 2022 8:22 pm

chancery wrote: ↑Mon Oct 17, 2022 8:08 pmYou think either the district court or the D.D. Circuit would stay the order of remand?

Maaaaaaybe.

It would depend on how well written the arguments are (and who the judges are). Sufficiently colorable arguments may persuade just enough of the right people that an appeal (and stay pending appeal) are warranted to settle the issues.

IEndorsePopehat
@Popehat
Government lawyers -- particularly USDOJ lawyers -- arguing they should not be bound by state ethical rules is a thing, a thing with a long gross history.

Zoe Tillman
@ZoeTillman
Attorney discipline cases in DC fall under the jurisdiction of the city's highest local court, the DC Court of Appeals. Clark is a member of the DC Bar, but is arguing local entities can't "supervise the internal operations and deliberations of the Executive Branch"

Trump ally Clark asks U.S. court to block disciplinary charges against him

Sarah N. Lynch
Mon, October 17, 2022 at 11:33 PM·

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Justice Department attorney Jeffrey Bossert Clark asked a federal court on Monday to intervene in a legal disciplinary case pending against him over his efforts to help former President Donald Trump overturn his 2020 election loss.

In his lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Clark argues that the District of Columbia Court of Appeals and the local bodies of the D.C. Bar responsible for filing and adjudicating disciplinary proceedings against attorneys do not have the jurisdiction to bring ethics charges against him.

Clark, who previously led the Justice Department's Environment and Natural Resources Division and temporarily led the Civil Division, argues that "no state possesses the power to supervise the internal operations and deliberations of any branch of the federal government."

The ethics case against him, the lawsuit says, represents a "direct attack on the fundamental principle of separation of powers."

Hamilton "Phil" Fox, the head of the office that brought the ethics charges, declined to immediately comment on the lawsuit, but said he does not believe that any of the D.C. Bar's disciplinary cases have ever been removed to federal court.



https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-ally-c ... 50381.html