In the event you’re contemplating operating for president of the bar affiliation, it behooves you to not be associated to the pinnacle of Donald Trump’s private regulation agency.
When Paul Hastings companion Brad Bondi introduced his run for D.C. bar president, we already knew the place this was going. Whereas some noticed a Machiavellian plot to consolidate Trumpian management over the capital’s ethics watchdog, Bondi’s marketing campaign by no means actually turned on politics. The bar affiliation’s disciplinary operate exists exterior the purview of its president and Bondi’s platform involved itself extra with “CLE” than “MAGA,” however in a political second dominated by a noxious mix of nepotism and cronyism, handing the DC bar over to the Legal professional Normal’s brother was a non-starter.
And it was a blowout.
At a whopping 9 p.c, we will file this as one of many uncommon events the place “decimated” comes fairly near its literal that means.
Typically it’s truthful, typically it’s not, however you may’t all the time get what you need when somebody within the household decides to indulge political ambitions. Jonathan Turley and his Republican buddies waged a multi-year witch hunt based mostly on Hunter Biden having the gall to carry a job whereas his dad was NOT in politics. In that world, the prospects for electing the sitting AG’s brother have been difficult below one of the best of circumstances and nigh unimaginable whereas she’s busy gathering ethics complaints and positioning the DOJ for sanctions. As we famous earlier, Brad Bondi’s greatest wager was to marketing campaign on being his sister’s most constant and vociferous critic ever since he tore the pinnacle off her favourite Barbie. Properly, his greatest wager would’ve been to get her to resign first… so perhaps his “greatest lifelike wager.”
As a substitute, his marketing campaign requested voters to miss the connection fully — an implausible ask — which solely succeeded in making him appear oblivious to overwhelmingly apparent optics.
O-based alliteration! How usually do you see that within the wild?
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