Jan 29, 2020 · The ACLJ’s most recent 990 shows no salary for Sekulow; CASE’s shows him receiving $104,000 for 20 hours of work per week. You might wonder why Trump hired Sekulow, whose area of expertise is undermining church-state law, to defend him against serious charges in an impeachment trial.
Jan 06, 2021 · President Donald Trump's lawyer, Jay Sekulow, broke with the president over his recent claims regarding Vice President Mike Pence's authority during the Electoral College certification process ...
Jan 05, 2021 · Trump attorney Jay Sekulow on Tuesday refuted claims that Vice President Pence has the authority to overturn the election results.President Trump earlier in …
Feb 06, 2020 · WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 28: (L-R) President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Jay Sekulow and White House counsel Pat Cipollone arrive at the U.S. Capitol for the Senate impeachment trial at the U.S ...
Jun 20, 2017 · 251. Donald Trump’s new attorney, Jay Sekulow, burst into the public consciousness this weekend with a series of fiery – if contradictory – interviews on the Sunday morning news shows. The ...
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Born | Michael Dean Cohen August 25, 1966 Lawrence, New York, U.S. |
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In this story, originally published on July 19, 2017, Haaretz profiles the president's personal lawyer, Jay Sekulow, who was tapped Thursday to co-lead a high-profile team.
In this story, originally published on July 19, 2017, Haaretz profiles the president's personal lawyer, Jay Sekulow, who was tapped Thursday to co-lead a high-profile team. With his impassioned defense of embattled U.S. President Donald Trump, amid the constant drip of new revelations regarding his campaign’s relationship with Russia, Jay Sekulow, ...
Jay Alan Sekulow is an American lawyer, radio, television talk show host and politically conservative media personality. He has been chief counsel of the American Center for Law & Justice (ACLJ) since 1991. As a member of President Donald Trump's legal team, he served as lead outside counsel for Trump's first impeachment trial in the United States Senate.
Jay Alan Sekulow was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Natalie (née Wortman) and Stanley Sekulow.
Sekulow was raised on Long Island, in the town of Jericho. He came from a Jewish family, attended Hebrew School, and had a bar mitzvah. While in high school Sekulow and his family moved to Atlanta, where he graduated from Lakeside High School, then earned a B.A. in 1977 an…
After graduating from law school, Sekulow worked at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) as a prosecutor with the tax litigation division for "about 18 months."
In 1982, he opened a law firm in Atlanta, Georgia, with former Mercer classmate Stuart J. Roth which soon evolved into a business buying, renovating, and selling historic properties as a tax shelter for wealthy investors. IRS regulations changed in the mid-eighties, and the firm collapse…
Beginning in 2017, Sekulow served as a personal attorney to President Donald Trump during the investigation of Special Counsel Robert Mueller and investigations by Congressional committees into links between Trump associates and Russian officials.
Sekulow also served as lead outside counsel for Trump during his impeachment proceedings in 2019 and 2020. He made several allegedly false statements on the Senate floor during the first T…
In November 2005, Legal Times published an article which alleged that Sekulow "through the ACLJ and a string of interconnected nonprofit and for-profit entities, has built a financial empire that generates millions of dollars a year and supports a lavish lifestyle—complete with multiple homes, chauffeur-driven cars, and a private jet that he once used to ferry Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia." In the article, former donors and supporters claimed that Sekulow engaged in a pattern …
Sekulow is thought by some in Washington to have been one of the "Four Horsemen" who "engineered" the nomination of Chief Justice John G. Roberts to the Supreme Court. In 2007, Sekulow endorsed Mitt Romney's presidential campaign. He has opposed the building of Park51, an Islamic center in Lower Manhattan two blocks from the World Trade Center.
On February 27, 2019 Michael Cohen reported in testimony before Congress that Jay Sekulow a…
Sekulow and Pamela McPherson married in 1978 and have two adult sons, Jordan and Logan. Jordan Sekulow is an attorney with the ACLJ and Director of International Operations. He also co-hosts the radio and television programming with his father. Logan briefly starred in the Nickelodeon series U-Pick Live in 2005.
Sekulow's youngest brother Scott was the founder and Rabbi of the Messianic Jewish Congrega…
• In 1994, Sekulow was named to the National Law Journal's Power List.
• In 1997, he was named to The American Lawyer's Public Sector 45, a list dedicated to legal public servants who have had the greatest effect in their respective fields.
• Legal Times profiled him as one of the "90 Greatest Washington Lawyers of the Last 30 years".