Posted on 11/22/2016 8:54:04 PM PST by bobk3
Thousands of attorneys have signed a letter opposing the appointment of Steve Bannon as President-elect Donald Trump’s chief strategist and senior counselor.
Bannon has a long history of making bigoted comments and has been accused of domestic abuse and being anti-Semitic. Under his executive chairmanship, Breitbart has trafficked widely in white nationalism and homophobic and sexist content.
The more than 15,000 lawyers who signed the letter co-authored by Nancy Leong, associate professor at University of Denver law school, called on members of Congress to “take all possible measures” to make Trump “rescind his appointment of Mr. Bannon”:
As attorneys, we swore an oath to uphold the Constitution. We committed to protect the institutions upon which our democracy depends. We committed to provide zealous representation for all our clients, regardless of their race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic.
Mr. Bannon has demonstrated his opposition to the stable, democratic form of government that our profession embraces and strives to maintain. His words could not be more clear: “Lenin wanted to destroy the state, and that’s my goal, too . . . I want to bring everything crashing down, and destroy all of today’s establishment.” This contempt for our longstanding governmental institutions has no place in a crucial leadership position.
“Many of the signatories to the letter self-identify as conservative or libertarian,” Leong wrote in an email to The Huffington Post. “Opposing the appointment of someone who has enabled white nationalism and other hate-based ideologies is not a partisan issue.”
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More than 15,000 reasons to keep Bannon.
Trump NOT being a lawyer was one of the reasons I supported him...
Any amount of shysters/lawyers signing a Anti-Trump petition, “Not worth a bucket of warm spit”!
Nod to, John Nance Garner IV
Oh, well by all means let’s just let them run the government, not, again, what you are seeing is people that have discovered they are irrelevant ...
But this is in the Huffn’Puff.
So... delete.
It is very sad indeed when the history of the early founding is full of great and noble lawyers that they are so hated today. It seems to me that the number one thing Republicans should do when searching for candidates for future office is find those who have no experience with lawyerly studies, and attack the lawyers.
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