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Kamala Harris is hawking her new guide, 107 Days, and so, she sat down with Rachel Maddow on MSNBC final evening. Harris had loads to say about Donald Trump and the way he’s a “tyrant,” however Trump wasn’t the one determine that drew Harris’s fireplace.
Harris turned her consideration to personal corporations for not holding the road vis-à-vis Trump. “I’ve labored carefully with the personal sector over a few years. And I all the time believed that if push got here to shove, these titans of business can be guardrails for our democracy, for the significance of sustaining democratic establishments. And one after the other by one, they’ve been silent. They’ve been, you understand, sure, I exploit the phrase feckless,” Harris mentioned.
Harris additionally identified that this lack of braveness is motivated by the underside line. “Maybe it’s as a result of they need a merger authorized or they wish to keep away from an investigation. However sooner or later they’ve bought to face up for the sake of the individuals who depend on all of those establishments — to have integrity and to, sooner or later, be the guardrails in opposition to a tyrant who’s utilizing the federal authorities to execute his whim and fancy due to a fragile ego.”
Daring phrases. However…
I simply have one query: Does she know the place her husband works?
Pay attention, I’m certain the final yr or so has been hella loopy for Harris and possibly she simply isn’t monitoring the place her husband is at present working towards legislation. If she *does* know, this entire interview is giving large do as I say, not as my husband does power.
As a result of for many who don’t know and/or care, after his stint as Second Gentleman, Doug Emhoff selected to return to Biglaw and is at present a companion at Willkie Farr. You realize, one of many 9 “feckless” Biglaw corporations that bent a knee to Donald Trump — and promised $940 million in professional bono payola — to keep away from the unconstitutional Government Orders concentrating on main legislation corporations that pissed off Donald Trump.
So sure, fairly just like the “titans of business” which might be purported to be “guardrails for our democracy” the legislation agency the place Emhoff is a companion did the Precise. Similar. Factor. It’s truly worse, as a result of Willkie is giving Donald Trump $100 million is free authorized providers for Trump-approved causes and purchasers.
This isn’t so simple as holding a lady accountable for what her husband does, as some Harris apologists would possibly opine. There’s a direct monetary profit that Kamala Harris’s family receives when Willkie Farr does properly — and that agency bought out the rule of legislation in an effort to be certain that their backside line didn’t take a success.
And I don’t assume Harris’s feedback go the blush take a look at simply because Emhoff was publicly important of Willkie’s cope with Trump. As a result of HE SILL WORKS THERE! As a companion, no much less! Associates (and naturally, companions too) are bailing from Willkie to get the stink of capitulation off their profession. Emhoff — each as an skilled companion and as a family identify — has vastly extra alternatives than junior attorneys but he chooses to remain at Willkie. And that claims much more about who’s — and who isn’t — truly keen to combat for democracy than the MSNBC clip.
Kathryn Rubino is a Senior Editor at Above the Regulation, host of The Jabot podcast, and co-host of Pondering Like A Lawyer. AtL tipsters are the most effective, so please join along with her. Be at liberty to electronic mail her with any suggestions, questions, or feedback and comply with her on Twitter @Kathryn1 or Mastodon @[email protected].
