Cleta safari
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Good story on the BigLaw partner who was an active participant in Trump’s attempt to extort the Georgia Secretary of State to steal the election:
On the call, Ms. Mitchell repeatedly jumped in to help Mr. Trump, showing an intimate level of involvement in his efforts as they made baseless claims about the election and pressed Georgia officials to hand over election data.
Ms. Mitchell is a partner at the law firm Foley & Lardner, which has over 1,000 lawyers and an office in nearly every major city in the United States and represents large corporations such as CVS Pharmacy. Her presence on the call stood out because Mr. Trump has struggled to attract high-profile lawyers to aid his attempts to overturn the election, instead relying on a group that has included Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former New York City mayor who has pushed outlandish claims in defense of Mr. Trump throughout his presidency, and Sidney Powell, who has espoused conspiracy theories.
Ms. Mitchell has been advising the president for weeks, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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Although she is affiliated with an established law firm, Ms. Mitchell fits the mold of many lawyers who have advised Mr. Trump during his presidency as he faced a special counsel investigation and impeachment and has now taken on a specious effort to overturn the vote.
Ms. Mitchell has for years represented a range of conservatives such as Scott Pruitt, Mr. Trump’s former head of the Environmental Protection Agency, and organizations like the National Rifle Association. In recent years, she represented conservative Tea Party groups that accused the I.R.S. of wrongly targeting them.
And, of course, she’s also a longstanding part of the Republican vote suppression industrial complex:
Slate has obtained an exclusive audio recording of the closed-door panel called “How to Survive Redistricting,” moderated by influential Republican lawyer Cleta Mitchell. The panel’s four experts—Hans von Spakovsky of the Heritage Foundation, North Carolina election lawyer Thomas Farr, former Georgia Rep. Lynn Westmoreland, and Texas state Rep. Phil King—are among the architects and defenders of some of the most notorious gerrymanders and voter suppression plans of this decade.
Fortunately for her the Sixth Amendment explicitly forbids fancy lawyers being criticized for any reason. And surely it would be wrong to ask CVS if this is the kind of firm it wants to be associate with.