I frequent a blog called Above the Law, which features articles about my former profession. I think it’s fair to say the site has a slightly leftward slant, but then one can say that about anyone who is rational these days.
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry about the posts here and here about a Trump loving lawyer who just lost his job as Associate General Counsel at Goosehead Insurance (yes, I duck-duck-goed it, there is such a company) after joining the insurrection on January 6th.
His name is Paul Davis, which doesn’t sound very Latino, but he has just brought a lawsuit seeking to overturn the election, actually the government, on behalf of Latinos for Trump. In the lawsuit, he has cited The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings in support of his argument that the court should declare the entire federal government essentially non-existent:
During the course of the epic trilogy, the rightful King of Gondor had abandoned the throne. Since only the rightful king could sit on the throne of Gondor, a steward was appointed to manage Gondor until the return of the King, known as “Aragorn,” occurred at the end of the story. This analogy is applicable since there is now in Washington, D.C., a group of individuals calling themselves the President, Vice President, and Congress who have no rightful claim to govern the American People. Accordingly, as set forth in the Proposed Temporary Restraining Order, as a remedy the Court should appoint a group of special masters (the “Stewards”) to provide a check [sic] the power of the illegitimate President until this Constitutional Crisis can be resolved through a peaceful legal process of a Preliminary Injunction Hearing and a jury trial on the merits.
There’s more craziness in the posts to which I’ve linked. Sidney Powell, Rudy Giuliani, and Lin Wood owe this guy big-time, inasmuch as he makes them look like legal scholars.
The laughing part comes easy, but you are tempted to cry when you consider that the legal profession is infested with people like this, and that over the course of the last few years, a number of them have become federal judges. (See my last post)
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