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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Disgusting.
I don't know how, but we have to fight this kind of thing.
The MSM are fooling most of the people most of the time.
Most of the people do not read Free Republic or watch Fox News. They read their local liberal papers and watch their local TV news. They will believe that Bannon is a racist, anti-Semite, homophobe, white nationalist, etc, etc, etc. Most all of us know people who will believe this garbage (or will at least have something vague about Bannon planted in the back of their minds) .
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$15,000 Lawyers you say? Really? GO TRUMP!
Sorry boys, this bulls*t isn’t going to work any more.
This is getting more than old.
I don’t even know who Bannon is but I want him in there now!
15,000 Lawyers?
LOL
Think empty stadium.
Dammit! I'm gonna sue all 15,000 of you lawyers for causing me to spew beer through my nostrils all over my 'puter screen.
If 15,000 lawyers are against him... he has the right enemies and that is a start.
HuffPo is always disgusting.
If you knew the people behind them. their lifestyles and views, the adjective ‘disgusting’ would fall far short of describing their depravity.
Now I KNOW I want him in.
At least 15,001 Left-wingers’ have wasted their time.
GREAT!
POTUS #45 TRUMP and Steve Bannon = great team.
15,000 flaming cuckers with an opinion.
What do you call 15,000 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean . . .
Cue the attorney joke thread. It’s like being opposed by vermin.
Good. Bannon relishes the role of the left’s villian
...and Bill and Hillary Clinton were accused of what?.... and the MSM did what....?
Well I’m convinced.
Lawyers. They think they rule the world.
These liberals sure know how to string new catchphrases together, usually starting with, “white nationalist.”
Why are liberals so racist and anti-US?
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