How’s that elite legal strike force doing?
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In addition to burnt out alcoholic husk of a former politician who hasn’t even pretended to practice law in decades Rudy Giuliani, certifiably insane sedition mongers Sidney Powell and Lin Wood, and reactionary racist Kamala Harris isn’t a US citizen wingnut welfare superstar John Eastman, we have this character at the head of the parade:
Jenna Ellis, the attorney from Colorado representing President Donald Trump in his bid to overturn his 2020 election loss, was fired from her job as a Weld County prosecutor in 2013 for making mistakes on cases, records obtained by The Colorado Sun show.
Ellis “failed to meet the employer’s expectations” and “made mistakes on cases the employer believes she should not have made,” according to a document from the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment.
Another record says Ellis, who held the title deputy district attorney at the Weld County District Attorney’s Office, was fired for “unsatisfactory performance.”
The documents, obtained through an open records request, appear to contradict what Ellis told The Wall Street Journal about her termination.
The newspaper reported that Ellis said she was fired because “she refused to bring a case to trial that she believed was an unethical prosecution.” The district attorney’s office told the Journal that Ellis handled traffic cases and other misdemeanors.
Ellis did not respond to an inquiry from The Sun on Friday about the circumstances that led to her firing and about how the documents appear to contradict what she told the Journal. Instead, the Trump campaign replied on Ellis’ behalf on Sunday, offering a 20-word, unsigned statement.
“This is a nonstory from a decade ago trying to damage her reputation simply because she works for President Trump,” the statement said.
Ellis is slated to appear before the Colorado legislature’s Legislative Audit Committee on Tuesday to testify at a Republican-called hearing on Colorado’s election integrity, according to Rep. Dave Williams, R-Colorado Springs. There have been no reports of widespread voter fraud in the state.
My fellow Coloradans will find this detail particularly delicious:
Ellis was hired by the Weld County District Attorney’s Office in August 2012 and fired in the first quarter of 2013, documents obtained by The Sun show. Ellis’ boss was Weld County District Attorney Ken Buck, who is now chairman of the Colorado Republican Party and a U.S. representative.
A spokeswoman said Buck declined to comment.
I bet! (Buck is a full-throated Trumper now, so hopefully his lapse in judgment in firing Comrade Donald’s fresh-faced legal superstar will lead to him being hurled into wingnut outer darkness).
Weld County is a huge mostly rural (4,000 square mile) county, home to around 25,000 300,000 people, to the northeast of the Boulder-Denver hive of liberal scum and villainy. It’s the kind of place where people like to write up their own Common Law Writs in order to Protect Our (their) Freedoms, and where the most significant cases a brand new assistant DA might handle would involve traffic accidents and maybe an occasional bar fight.
Getting fired from that job after six months, it’s safe to say, would require committing massive multiple screw ups, as even in these times it’s not that easy to get law school graduates to move to Common Law Writ land to get paid $55,000 a year while handling the more trivial legal entanglements of the common clay of the West.
Ellis, however, managed to parlay a resume that consisted of graduating from a very regional law school, and then getting fired almost immediately from a job fairly near the bottom of the legal employment hierarchy, into a professorship at Colorado Christian University, which is pretty much exactly the kind of place its name would lead you to suspect it might be.
While there she excreted a self-published rant about Common Law Writs and the Constitution, which combined with the requisite physiognomy got her an episodic gig as a “Constitutional law expert” at Fox News, where she caught you know who’s eye.
And so what we’re left with is the street, and the game, and what happened here today.
All this ties into Scott’s post this morning about the continuum from Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump, via which a party that over the past several decades has become increasingly contemptuous of actual knowledge and expertise and the nature of reality itself, and as a result has managed to end up hermetically sealing itself in a vast vat of its own endless bullshit. Thus do we get an Elite Legal Strike Force made up of these preposterous characters.
On a related note, everyone who worked to do so should get credit for helping to make any association with Trump’s attempted post-election coup toxic enough to help scare away a bunch of real law firms, thus leaving Trump to depend on this pathetic crew, while giving Jonathan Turley a perpetual sad.