at
an
earlier
event
(Photo
credit:
Rise
and
Resist)
Ed.
note:
Welcome
to
our
daily
feature,
Quote
of
the
Day.
When
the
executive
branch
puts
their
fingers
on
the
scales
of
justice
and
says,
‘I’m
going
to
punish
you
for
your
viewpoint,’
everybody
in
the
bar
should
start
heckling.
—
Raymond
J.
Dowd,
a
partner
at
Dunnington
Bartholow
&
Miller,
in
comments
given
to
Bloomberg
Law,
concerning
the
“entirely
spontaneous”
moment
when
he
started
heckling
Brad
Karp,
chair
of
Paul
Weiss,
over
the
firm’s
pro
bono
deal
with
Trump,
at
last
week’s
New
York
Bar
Foundation
gala.
After
the
event,
Karp
called
Dowd
to
discuss
what
happened.
“I
appreciated
him
sharing
his
views,”
Dowd
said.
“He
was
not
expressing
rage
or
anger.
I
just
think
he
felt
quite
blindsided,
and
I
said,
‘I
felt
exactly
the
same
way.’”
Dowd
went
on
to
say
that
it’s
his
“sincere
hope”
that
his
heckling
brings
about
change.
“I
think
having
a
larger
dialogue
on
these
issues
is
very
important
for
the
future
health
of
the
legal
profession,”
he
said.
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