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The Washington, DC bar advanced its lawfare on Trump-era Department of Justice official Jeffrey Clark Thursday when one of its committees recommended the attorney be suspended from practicing law for at least two years. The committee also demanded that the D.C. bar keep Clark out of work until he can “show fitness for readmission is an appropriate sanction for what was charged and proven.” In their 213-page report, Chair Merril Hirsh, Public Member Patricia Mathews, and Attorney Member Rebecca C. Smith accuse Clark of “truly extraordinary recklessness” over claims he violated bar rules by drafting a letter to Peach State...

Typically, a case like Kevin Clinesmith's would end in disbarment, but not this time. Kevin Clinesmith, the former senior FBI lawyer who was placed on probation as a convicted felon for falsifying a surveillance document during the Trump-Russia investigation, has been returned to "good standing" as a member of the D.C. Bar Association. In August of 2020, Clinesmith pleaded guilty to doctoring an email that was then used to justify a surveillance warrant that targeted former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. As a result, Clinesmith was sentenced in January to 12 months probation, though the D.C. bar did not seek...

HILLARY FLUNKS D.C. BAR EXAM "the smartest woman in the world" seeks less competitive venue--Arkansas by Mia T, 6.18.05 (viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE)   I had taken both the Arkansas and the Washington, D.C., bar exams during the summer, but my heart was pulling me toward Arkansas. When I learned that I had passed in Arkansas but failed in D.C., I thought that maybe my test scores were telling me something. hillary clintonLiving History et's get real. Missus clinton's bar exam scores were about her brain, not her heart (the supposititiousness of her two organ...