Giuffra
Sullivan
&
Cromwell
co-chair
Bob
Giuffra
is
working
his
way
up
the
MAGA
hierarchy.
Yesterday,
he
was
spotted
by
Business
Insider’s
Jacob
Shamsian
at
the
Second
Circuit
argument
in
the
E.
Jean
Carroll
defamation
case
where
the
president’s
lawyers
were
arguing
that
presidential
immunity
should
invalidate
the
$83.3
million
jury
verdict
against
their
client
for
defamation.
At
the
argument,
Giuffra
was
seen
with
Boris
Epshteyn,
the
controversial
personal
attorney
of
Donald
Trump.
Now
Giuffra
*does*
represent
the
president
—
Sullivan
&
Cromwell
is
handling
Trump’s
appeal
of
his
hush
money
conviction.
Though
that
is…
not
this
case.
This
left
a
lot
of
observers
wondering:
what
the
hell
was
Giuffra
doing
there?
Giuffra’s
time
is
very
valuable
—
down
to
the
6
minute
interval
—
so
he’s
getting
*something*
out
of
the
appearance.
Some
useful
networking
perhaps?
It’s
not
that
he
needs
to
hear
the
argument,
yes
presidential
immunity
is
also
an
issue
in
Giuffra’s
case,
but
the
oral
arguments
are
available
online.
If
“keeping
abreast
of
developments
in
presidential
immunity
jurisprudence”
was
all
Giuffra
cared
about,
he
could
tune
in
online
and
save
himself
the
travel
time
(on
one
of
the
hottest
days
of
the
year,
no
less).
But
I
have
to
wonder
just
how
this
schmoozing
is
going
down
at
S&C.
There
was
a
lot
of
internal
turmoil
when
Giuffra
announced
the
representation.
Representing
an
adjudicated
sex
pest,
with
a
history
of
dictating
a
brash
(and
not
very
S&C-like)
litigation
strategy
(and
then
stiffing
his
lawyers
to
boot!)
had
a
real
way
of
draining
morale.
The
everyone-deserves-a-criminal-defense
argument
wears
pretty
thin
when
Giuffra
is
showing
up
for
funsies
in
a
civil
case
where
the
judge
had
to
repeatedly
clarify
that
the
trial
“conclusively
establish[ed]
that
Mr.
Trump
did,
forcibly
and
without
her
consent,
penetrate
Ms.
Carroll’s
vagina
with
his
fingers.”
Unsavory
for
a
White
Shoe
firm
doesn’t
even
begin
to
cover
it.
Kathryn
Rubino
is
a
Senior
Editor
at
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Law,
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of
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