I know this is fairly trivial, but I’m having trouble containing my astonishment, so here goes.
I’m no longer practicing law, but I do remember how things worked, and I still can’t get over the fact that Ivanka Trump actually found a lawyer willing to argue that she shouldn’t have to obey a subpoena because it would make it hard for her to pick up her kids after school. I know these people feel entitled, but isn’t it a lawyer’s job to explain to the entitled that things don’t work that way, at least not in New York, where the fascists are far from taking over?
I think back to my distinguished career and have to wonder whether maybe I made a mistake in the early years, when I mainly represented folks who were being evicted. We did what we could to delay the inevitable so they could find other housing, but it never occurred to me to argue that they shouldn’t have to go to court on weekdays when their kids were in school, and of course they couldn’t come on weekends either (not that the courts were in session on weekends) nor could they come during the vacation periods because it was even more necessary to keep an eye on the kids during those periods.
Maybe it never occurred to me because had I tried it on any judge I’ve ever appeared before, even those most sympathetic to poor tenants, I would, at best, have been laughed out of court, with the real possiblity that I would have been referred to the state bar association for some kinds of discipline. For that matter they may have felt it necessary to take a good look at my law school to see if it really deserved accreditation.
What’s truly amazing about this is that it seems to be par for the course for the lawyers representing the Trumps. Over at the Palmer Report they always speculate that the lawyers are simply performing for the Trumps, knowing full well that their arguments have no merit. Again, one must wonder where these lawyers come from, particularly since Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro might have some lawyerly advice to give them.
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