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More Than 15,000 Lawyers Sign Letter Opposing Steve Bannon’s Appointment
Huffington Post ^ | 11/22/16 | Rebecca Shapiro

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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TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bannon; lawyers; racialying; trumpcabinet; trumptransition
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To: bobk3

Okay, who are these 15,000 lawyers?, Show me the list.

Fake news.


61 posted on 11/22/2016 9:35:15 PM PST by glock rocks (... so much win!)
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To: stars & stripes forever

White nationalism? “Making America first” is white nationalism? Open borders is treason.


62 posted on 11/22/2016 9:36:26 PM PST by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental disorder: A totalitarian mindset..)
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To: fireman15
 
 
True that - all the more reason Bannon is right where he needs to be. Lawyers have been running this nation, and have steered us all right off into the ditch. Enough out of them.
 
 

63 posted on 11/22/2016 9:36:33 PM PST by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: comebacknewt
What do you call 15,000 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean . . .

Well at least we know the sharks won't eat them.....Professional Courtesy.

64 posted on 11/22/2016 9:37:19 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: bobk3

Lawyers.
Everyone LOVES lawyers.
LOL.


65 posted on 11/22/2016 9:38:37 PM PST by TheConservativeParty (TRUMP 45 Meet the new boss, not the same as any old boss.)
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To: Eddie01

The population of DC metro area is 5,000,000 and 1/2 are attorneys. 15,000 you say? What a joke. I meet that many on the metro in the morning.


66 posted on 11/22/2016 9:42:59 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: bobk3

Sorry, but if this election proved anything it proved that the old order media is dead.

No one under 60 watches TV news. No one under 50 watches TV at all. Not broadcast TV. Most people get their news from the internet and social media. No one reads newspapers. They are as dead as the former trees they are written on.

News is now on demand and online.


67 posted on 11/22/2016 9:45:35 PM PST by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: bobk3

15,000 liberal Dems signed a letter.

Pray America woke


68 posted on 11/22/2016 9:51:52 PM PST by bray (The Silent Majority ROARED)
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To: fireman15

More Than 15,000 Lawyers Sign Letter Opposing Steve Bannon’s Appointment.

What a wonderful endorsement!

Go Bannon!


69 posted on 11/22/2016 9:57:29 PM PST by Bobalu (See liberal MSM heads explode...make Milo Yiannopoulos Trump's new Press Secretary!)
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To: bobk3

Steve Bannon interviews Donald Trump, November 5th, 2015

https://soundcloud.com/breitbart/breitbart-news-daily-donald-trump-november-5-2015

Bannon is terrific.


70 posted on 11/22/2016 9:58:21 PM PST by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental disorder: A totalitarian mindset..)
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To: bobk3

what do you call 15,000 lawyers lying end to end across the atlantic ocean......... a good start


71 posted on 11/22/2016 10:02:40 PM PST by kvanbrunt2 (all your base are belong to us)
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To: comebacknewt

What do you call 15,000 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean . . .>>>>
a good start


72 posted on 11/22/2016 10:03:52 PM PST by kvanbrunt2 (all your base are belong to us)
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To: bobk3

No rational evidence cited. Try clicking the article’s embedded links, and be ready to projectile-vomit.

HuffPo is a failing high school blog.


73 posted on 11/22/2016 10:09:34 PM PST by ReaganGeneration2
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To: bobk3

Same tired song, second verse.
Get ready for more winning.


74 posted on 11/22/2016 10:17:32 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers, all armed conservatives)
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To: bobk3

Since there are 1,300,705 lawyers in the, U.S. (Source: American Bar Association, 2015 National Lawyer Population Survey), that isn’t even a drop in the bucket. They shout that number like it is really impressive. But in the larger picture it is nothing.


75 posted on 11/22/2016 10:30:53 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: bobk3

14,999 of them voted for Cankles.


76 posted on 11/22/2016 10:47:20 PM PST by KevinB (Those who love sausage and respect the law should never watch either being made!)
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To: bobk3

Knowing Trump he will only dig his heels deeper.


77 posted on 11/22/2016 10:53:04 PM PST by libh8er
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To: goodnesswins

Lawyers do rule the world, at least the world that the lower and middle class live in. That is why the only way a true Representative Republic can survive long term is to get rid of them all and teach every child true Civics.


78 posted on 11/22/2016 11:13:24 PM PST by Glad2bnuts (If Republicans are not prepared to carry on the Revolution of 1776, prepare for a communist takeover)
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To: bobk3

Line ‘em up and march ‘em into the sea....a good start!


79 posted on 11/22/2016 11:14:13 PM PST by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: ConservativeMind; stars & stripes forever
I think you mean, “paradigm.”

You're right, it's late.

C'mon guys. It's never too late for a pyridine shift:


80 posted on 11/22/2016 11:38:21 PM PST by FredZarguna (And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
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