Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Enforcing court rulings / MoFo appellate hire

The WSJ has J.D. Vance’s Disregard for the Rule of Law -- The senator appears willing to ignore court rulings, undermining the balance of powers.

In a 2021 interview ... Mr. Vance said that if Donald Trump is re-elected, he should sack federal agency workers en masse. Mr. Vance said that if he could give Mr. Trump one piece of advice, it would be this: “Fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state. Replace them with our people. And when the courts—’cause you will get taken to court—and when the courts stop you, stand before the country, like Andrew Jackson did, and say, ‘The chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.’ ” Historians dispute whether Jackson actually said that. The quote’s provenance aside, by citing it Mr. Vance reveals an apparent contempt for the authority of the judicial branch of government.

The DJ has Morrison Foerster adds appellate specialist as partner in San Francisco -- Aileen McGrath, who recently argued a case before the U.S. Supreme Court, joins from Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP. McGrath presented arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Sheetz v. El Dorado County, 2024 DJDAR 3179 (U.S. Apr. 15, 2024).