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...But he did so with the assurance of other executives, he told the court. Displaying a breezy confidence, Donald Jr dismissed one of these documents as merely a “‘cover your butt’ letter”....
...Trump’s lawyer Christopher Kise said he thought the court “should grant the former president of the US . . . a little latitude to explain himself”....
...Based on the trial, Engoron will decide whether Trump should pay damages of up to $250mn and be stripped — along with his adult sons, Donald Jr and Eric — of the right to do business in New York, the city...
...What happened was the attorney-general, Merrick Garland, a very cautious and careful man by all accounts, perhaps better suited to the judgeship that Republicans denied him on the Supreme Court than he is...
...The other team notably included John Eastman, the former Supreme Court clerk and architect of the plan for Pence to reject the results, who admitted to colleagues that his strategy was unconstitutional....
...Thomas’s network of former Supreme Court clerks and his closest friends rose to top positions in the Trump administration....
...He served in the Iraq war, then moved on to Yale Law School. There he met his wife Usha, a civil litigation lawyer and former clerk to John Roberts, the conservative Supreme Court chief justice....
...Jackson, a former clerk to Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, is widely considered to be one of the frontrunners to be the first black woman to be nominated to the highest US court if a vacancy arises...
...Mr Biden has chosen federal appeals court judge Merrick Garland as his nominee to lead the justice department as attorney-general....
...Among the early backers were a state superior court judge and his wife, and several people who appear to be relatives or associates of Peter Coker, a North Carolina businessman....
...He refused to even hold a hearing on Merrick Garland, the president’s choice to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left open by the sudden death of conservative justice Antonin Scalia in February 2016....
...For almost a year, Republicans denied Merrick Garland, Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, so much as a hearing....
...Mr Acosta is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, and has served as a clerk to Samuel Alito back when the now-Supreme Court justice sat on a federal appeals court....
...In March, President Barack Obama tapped Mr Garland, the chief judge for the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, to fill the high court seat left vacant by the February 13 death of Justice Antonin...
...clerk for justices Anthony Kennedy and Byron White....
...court nominee, Merrick Garland – he thinks it might be that time....
...Even the athletes on steroids are ordinary people on steroids. When a clerk from Sydney or a housewife from Amsterdam wins, one of us becomes champion of the world....
...The Hippodrome was once home to a circus theatre, then the Talk of the Town variety show which packed audiences in to watch stars such as Judy Garland, Sammy Davis Jr and Tom Jones....
...“On the current court, Kennedy is the most likely to be on the centre and court watchers will be listening to where he is on various issues,” said Steve Engel, a former clerk for Justice Kennedy....
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