Beyond lawfare: Harris campaign enlists big-time legal guns

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So, what's going to determine the outcome of this year's presidential election? The will of the voters in their respective states, or that of the high-powered attorneys?

Anyone who saw Democrat "nominee" Kamala Harris' pathetic interview on Thursday with CNN's Dana Bash knows that she needs all the debate prep she can get for her showdown with Trump on September 10. And one member of the team that's helping her get ready is Karen Dunn, who, according to the Trump campaign, is simultaneously working as lead defense attorney for Google LLC in the Biden administration's antitrust lawsuit against Google over its advertising practices. Considering that the trial starts September 9, isn't this spreading her a little thin, considering all the help Kamala has shown she could use? And isn't it also an obvious conflict of interest?

Dunn also advised Kamala before the vice-presidential debate against then-incumbent Vice President Mike Pence. For the record, she is Google's outside counsel through the firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, which REUTERS describes as "a favorite of Big Tech and Wall Street" and "a white shoe law firm with deep links to the Democratic Party."

Trump campaign senior adviser Tim Murtaugh spared no words about this "disgusting and dangerous" relationship: "Kamala Harris will never stand up to Big Tech because she's being coached on what to say in the debates by Google's top lawyer. Think about how outrageous it is --- their administration is suing Google, but Harris is taking political advice from the defendant's lawyer."

"...But it's not surprising because Big Tech and the Biden-Harris White House have been conspiring to censor and trample the rights of law-abiding citizens since they gained power," he said.

"Some prosecutor she is," Murtaugh said of Kamala. "She's being coached by the defendant's lawyer."

One would assume, after seeing Kamala's disastrous interview on CNN, that she needs all the help she can get, from anywhere she can get it.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/harris-preps-debate-google-lawyer-creating-conflict-interest-trump-campaign-says

According to REUTERS, the firm of Paul Weiss, together with their staff, has given at least $1.4 million to Democrats in this election cycle, "the most of any law firm tracked by OpenSecrets, a nonpartisan research group that analyzes campaign finance records." It's not just Dunn helping her out; chairman Brad Karp is "rallying other lawyers around the Vice President.

Karp was among Biden's top fundraisers in 2020. Before Biden won the nomination, he had been raising money for Kamala's short-lived campaign. He launched a fundraising effort for her among nearly 300 corporate lawyers, more than half of whom work at Paul Weiss. This enormous firm was just named by THE LAWYER as "International Law Firm of the Year."

https://www.paulweiss.com/practices/transactional/corporate/awards-and-rankings/paul-weiss-named-international-law-firm-of-the-year-at-the-lawyer-awards?id=51966

As Reuters reports, "...advocacy groups are concerned that funders with corporate ties could wield outsized influence…" Sadly, that's par for the course. In the words of Jo-Ellen Pozner, who teaches ethics at Santa Clara University's Leavey School of Business, "Donors definitely are looking for relationships that they can call in."

The legal industry is pretty much whole-hog Democrat according to OpenSecrets, with at least $14.5 million going to the Biden campaign (while it was still on) and Trump receiving at least $2.5 million.

If Karen Dunn's name sounds familiar, it's no doubt because she was associate White House counsel for then-President Obama and, according to REUTERS, "helped him, Harris, and Hillary Clinton prepare for past debates." She's also represented Apple and Uber. (She's not to be confused with Anita Dunn, who was acting Communications Director for the Obama White House and worked on Obama's campaigns along with David Axelrod and David Plouffe, who is now running Kamala's campaign. Her husband is Bob Bauer, former partner at Perkins Coie and personal counsel to Obama, also White House counsel.)

Other big-time Democrat partners at Paul Weiss include former U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch and former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson. No matter how badly Kamala might do in interviews and how empty a suit she is, she has definitely got the power of the left backing her. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/harris-presidential-campaign-finds-legal-world-booster-paul-weiss-firm-2024-08-12/

SPEAKING OF THE POWER OF THE LEFT: Mike Benz tells Tucker Carlson about the arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov for failure to "monitor content" on his platform and what this tells us about the Deep State's plan to control our speech. This is the most important issue of our time. (We found it interesting that the Democrat attorneys at Paul Weiss are so in bed with Big Tech.)

No one knows more about this subject than Benz, and your IQ will be about 10 points higher after listening to him for a couple of hours. So that's your weekend assignment, class. You won't be tested on the material, but pay attention nonetheless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKBOrkk1FZE

RELATED READING: Here's the DAILY CALLER on the charges against Durov and the concern from civil liberties groups.

https://dailycaller.com/2024/08/28/europe-telegram-arrest-pavel-durov-free-speech-laws/

Leftists in the U.K. and much of Europe are calling for a widespread crackdown on free speech, even calling for the arrest of Elon Musk and the shutdown of his X social media platform, calling it "the home of right-wing extremism." Europe is finished if it chooses to go this way. And Elon might want to think twice right now before going to France.

https://www.newsmax.com/world/globaltalk/musk-x-censorship/2024/08/25/id/1177819/

By the way, it's not just Europe: The same crackdown on free speech and Twitter is also happening in Brazil…

https://x.com/shellenberger/status/1829206740984111403

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RELATED: A discussion about election-related lawfare wouldn't be complete without a Jack Smith update, and attorney Josh Hammer has a must-read one at TOWNHALL. In what Hammer likens to a Mafia operation with "grand bosses" such as the Obamas and Clintons and "trusted consiglieres" such as Merrick Garland and super-lawyer Marc Elias, Jack Smith is the foot-soldier, the hit man, the one who executes the orders to knock off rivals. And in Smith's filing this week of a superseding indictment against President Trump, "Smith's naked politicking and electioneering have been exposed for all to see."

Hammer suggests a different line of work for this particularly ham-fisted special counsel. "I hear the U.S. Secret Service is hiring," he quips.

https://townhall.com/columnists/joshhammer/2024/08/30/jack-smith-democrat-lawfare-complex-hit-man-n2644119

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