House Democrats’ impeachment lawyer led ‘massive pushback’ after Trump election
by Susan Ferrechio
December 04, 2019 01:22 PM
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Republicans are highlighting the anti-President Trump Twitter history of the top lawyer for the Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee, who questioned witnesses for 45 minutes at a public impeachment hearing.
“Norm Eisen, the lawyer hired by Jerry Nadler and the House Judiciary Committee Democrats to question today’s impeachment ‘witnesses,’ should have scrubbed some of his tweets,” a Trump campaign spokesman said Wednesday. “Don’t expect any objective fact-finding today. He’s just another anti-Trump resistance fanatic who’s obsessed about impeachment since before President Trump even took office.”
Eisen, a founder of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington and a former Obama administration lawyer and ambassador to the Czech Republic, started attacking the president before he took office.
Eisen, 59, tweeted “Vive le resistance!” after Trump was elected in 2016 and a month later said he was helping “coordinate massive pushback on Trump corruption,” unless Trump divested from his business interests.
The graduate of Brown University and Harvard Law School, where he was a classmate of Barack Obama, helped CREW file a complaint against Trump the day he was sworn in as president.
“Congrats Pres. Trump — now let the battle begin!” Eisen tweeted, posting a link to a Politico article about CREW’s Jan. 20, 2017, complaint about Trump’s ownership of his Washington hotel.
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Since liberal Democratic operative David Brock became CREW’s chairman in 2014, CREW has almost exclusively pursued investigations and litigation against Republicans and conservatives. Brock stepped down as the group’s chairman in 2016 and was replaced by Richard Painter, who went on to take a leave of absence to run as a Democrat in Minnesota’s 2018 U.S. Senate special election. Under Painter’s leadership, CREW has pursued aggressive litigation against the Trump administration, and as of January 2018 had filed 180 lawsuits against what it called the “most unethical presidency” in U.S. history.
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Eisen’s parents were immigrants to the United States of Jewish ancestry and he grew up working in his family’s hamburger stand in Los Angeles. He received his B.A. degree in Philosophy from Brown University in 1985 and his J.D. degree from Harvard Law School in 1991, both with honors. While at Harvard, he first met future President Barack Obama, then also a first-year law student.
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