from
Getty)
For
all
of
the
administration’s
big
talk
of
meritocracy
coming
back
to
put
the
people
who
actually
deserve
the
jobs
in
power,
there’s
been
a
lot
of
incompetency
at
the
helm.
Planes
falling
out
the
sky,
repeated
failures
to
indict
pedophiles
—
let
alone
a
sandwich
—
the
list
goes
on.
An
explanatory
thread
that
runs
through
the
Kakistocracy
is
absolute
fealty
to
Trump.
And,
given
his
self-declared
love
for
the
“poorly
educated,”
he
has
done
a
great
job
of
empowering
people
that
are
quicker
to
chant
“USA!
USA!”
than
to
ask
if
they’re
being
told
to
act
in
ways
that
are
un-American.
That
comes
at
a
great
cost,
namely
the
brain
drain
that
comes
from
nixing
competent
people
that
put
concepts
like
“justice”
or
“the
Constitution”
above
Trump’s
orange,
bloated
ego.
Maurene
Comey
was
one
of
the
competent
prosecutors
hit,
but
she’s
already
pivoted
successfully.
Reuters
has
coverage:
Maurene
Comey,
who
brought
criminal
cases
against
Jeffrey
Epstein
associate
Ghislaine
Maxwell
and
music
mogul
Sean
“Diddy”
Combs
before
she
was
fired
as
a
Manhattan
federal
prosecutor
last
year,
has
moved
into
private
practice
at
Patterson
Belknap
Webb
&
Tyler,
the
law
firm
said
on
Wednesday.Comey
was
among
several
federal
prosecutors
fired
by
the
U.S.
Justice
Department
since
President
Donald
Trump
returned
to
office
last
year.
In
September,
she
sued
the
DOJ
and
the
Executive
Office
of
the
President,
alleging
she
was
not
provided
any
cause
for
her
removal.
…
Comey
will
be
a
partner
at
New
York-based,
200-lawyer
Patterson
Belknap.
She
noted
on
Wednesday
that
the
law
firm
was
among
those
that
signed
onto
briefs
denouncing
U.S.
President
Donald
Trump’s
targeting
of
law
firms
through
punishing
executive
orders
last
year.
There’s
a
reasonable
suspicion
that
she
was
singled
out
because
she
is
the
daughter
of
James
Comey,
a
man
whose
sea-shell-on-sand
art
project
was
taken
so
seriously
that
Kash
Patel
launched
an
FBI
investigation
over
it.
Or
maybe
it
had
something
to
do
with
her
successful
prosecution
of
very
big
names
involved
in
sex
crimes.
Just
shooting
in
the
dark
here
because,
again,
she
wasn’t
given
any
cause
for
her
removal.
This
is
a
high
profile
example
of
the
brain
drain,
but
trust
that
this
won’t
be
the
last
time
it
happens.
Not
too
long
ago
the
Pentagon
flagged
most
of
the
T14
and
other
top
ranked
institutions
(go
WashU!)
as
ineligible
for
DoD
tuition
assistance
programs
because
the
schools
were
deemed
‘too
woke.”
As
much
as
I’d
like
to
think
no
angels
will
have
to
cry
over
a
law
student
getting
into
Yale
only
to
be
forced
out
because
the
money
evaporated,
these
funding
cuts
will
keep
minds
from
flourishing
to
the
degree
they
would
if
they
could
afford
getting
in
to
NYU,
Harvard,
or
Princeton’s
non-existent
law
school.
Check
the
list
—
they
actually
banned
Princeton
and
Brown’s
non-existent
law
schools
from
eligibility.
That’s
what
happens
when
you
have
the
“poorly
educated”
determining
America’s
future.
Congrats
to
Comey
on
her
new
role
at
Patterson
Belknap!
Fired
US
Prosecutor
Maurene
Comey
Joins
New
York
Law
Firm
[Reuters]
Earlier:
Maureen
Comey
Tries
To
86
47’s
Firing
Her
James
Comey
Enjoys
Long
Walks
On
The
Beach…
So
MAGA
Gonna
Send
Him
To
El
Salvador
Prison
Camp
Chris
Williams
became
a
social
media
manager
and
assistant
editor
for
Above
the
Law
in
June
2021.
Prior
to
joining
the
staff,
he
moonlighted
as
a
minor
Memelord™
in
the
Facebook
group Law
School
Memes
for
Edgy
T14s
.
He
endured
Missouri
long
enough
to
graduate
from
Washington
University
in
St.
Louis
School
of
Law.
He
is
a
former
boatbuilder
who
is
learning
to
swim, is
interested
in
critical
race
theory,
philosophy,
and
humor,
and
has
a
love
for
cycling
that
occasionally
annoys
his
peers.
You
can
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him
by
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