Jenna Ellis | |
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Ellis in June 2021 | |
Born | November 1, 1984 |
Education | Colorado State University (BA) University of Richmond (JD) |
Known for | Legal advisor for Donald Trump |
Trump’s impeachment trial team: Who are the lawyers defending the president? Former Independent Counsel Ken Starr, attorney Alan Dershowitz and former federal prosecutor Robert Ray have been added to President Trump's impeachment defense team for the Senate trial. NEW You can now listen to Fox News articles!
3. Jesse R. Binnall “Donald Trump won … after you account for the fraud and irregularities that occurred,” Jesse Binnall, who is representing the Trump campaign in Nevada, said Tuesday. Binnall, 41, normally practices law in Alexandria, Virginia, outside Washington, and is experienced in political cases.
William S. Consovoy William Consovoy, who has experience arguing before the Supreme Court, represented Trump in recent New York state court cases. Consovoy, 46, works primarily on appellate cases.
As postelection litigation rages in multiple battleground states, lawyers representing President Donald Trump include big and small names. Several lawyers withdrew after reporting pressure from anti-Trump activists that included posting the lawyers’ names and contact information on social media.
John Charles Eastman (born April 21, 1960) is an American lawyer who is the founding director of the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, a public interest law firm affiliated with the conservative think tank Claremont Institute. He is a former professor and dean at the Chapman University School of Law.
62Â years (April 21, 1960)John C. Eastman / Age
Michael Dean Cohen (born August 25, 1966) is an American disbarred lawyer who served as an attorney for U.S. president Donald Trump from 2006 to 2018. Cohen was a vice-president of the Trump Organization, and the personal counsel to Trump, and was often described by media as Trump's "fixer".
37Â years (November 1, 1984)Jenna Ellis / Age
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Lincoln, NEJohn C. Eastman / Place of birth
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The Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) is an office in the United States Department of Justice that assists the Attorney General's position as legal adviser to the President and all executive branch agencies.
The 2020 Trump campaign responded to The Colorado Sun on Ellis' behalf, stating that this was a "nonstory". Another profile on a Christian site claims that Ellis won a wrongful termination appeal. With the end of her public sector stint, Ellis went into private practice at law firms based in Northern Colorado.
November 1, 1984 (age 37Â years)Jenna Ellis / Date of birth
37Â years (November 1, 1984)Jenna Ellis / Age
Eastman is a lawyer who worked with former president Donald Trump's legal team to overthrow democracy and try to steal the 2020 election.
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At that point, Eastman suggests, Pence should reject the vote counts from those seven states. Then, according to Eastman, comes the dramatic climax: "Pence then gavels Trump as re-elected."
Eastman closes the memo by noting that his plan should be enacted by Vice President Pence but, "Pence should do this without asking for permission -- either from a vote of a joint session or from the Court." That's a sure sign Eastman knows his scheme is outrageous and illegal. He proposes simply to ram it through and make the other side fight, after the fact, to undo the damage.
Congress needs to demand answers, issuing a subpoena to compel Eastman to testify if necessary. And the Justice Department must, at a minimum, open a criminal investigation to determine whether Eastman's proposed actions constituted conspiracy to violate federal election laws.
Clark was deputy national political director for Trump’s 2016 campaign, then became director of the Office of Public Liaison in the White House after the New York developer was elected president.
Bondi gained national prominence while Florida’s attorney general as one of the key Republican state attorneys general who sued to overturn the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. The Supreme Court upheld the law in 2012.
Sekulow founded the European Centre for Law and Justice based in Strasbourg, France, the seat of the European Court of Human Rights. He opened ECLJ offices in France, Russia, Zimbabwe, Pakistan, and Israel.
After Santorum won in 1994, Scaringi became his legislative correspondent in Washington. Scaringi returned to Pennsylvania to work for Mike Fisher’s campaign for state attorney general, and served as an executive assistant to Fisher as attorney general from 1997 to 2001.
Clark did accounting work for Gore’s 2000 presidential campaign, NPR reported, on his path to taking the role of deputy campaign manager and senior counsel on the Trump 2020 reelection campaign. Clark, 45, grew up as a centrist Democrat in Connecticut.
Powell was a federal prosecutor from 1978 through 1988, serving as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Western and Northern Districts of Texas. In the Western District, she helped win the conviction of organized crime leader Jimmy Chagra for continuing criminal enterprises.
Powell was president of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers in 2001 and 2002.
Attorney Alan Dershowitz confirmed his role on the Trump legal team in a series of tweets, saying he would "present oral arguments at the Senate trial to address the constitutional arguments against impeachment and removal." Dershowitz told Fox News he is not a “full-fledged” member of the legal team, though he will be contributing to the effort.
Pat Cipollone, the White House counsel, will take the helm in commanding Trump’s defense. He was named to the post in October 2018 but has known the president for years. He represented Trump during his tenure as a partner at the law firm Kirkland & Ellis and helped Trump prepare for the 2016 presidential debates.
Dershowitz is expected to emphasize the Constitutional arguments against impeachment and removal and highlight the fact that he voted for Hillary Clinton and opposed the impeachment trial against Bill Clinton.
As White House counsel, Cipollone advised Trump to release the memo of the call July phone call with Zelensky and he also penned an eight-page note to House Democrats asserting that the White House would not cooperate with the congressional impeachment inquiry.
Former Independent Counsel Ken Starr, attorney Alan Dershowitz and former federal prosecutor Robert Ray have been added to President Trump's impeachment defense team for the Senate trial. President Trump has locked down the defense team that will be representing him during his impeachment trial. The legal team is made up ...
During the call, Trump urged Zelensky to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter’s business dealings in the eastern European nation. As White House counsel, Cipollone advised Trump to release the memo of the call July phone call with Zelensky and he also penned an eight-page note to House Democrats asserting ...
Dershowitz told Fox News he is not a “full-fledged” member of the legal team, though he will be contributing to the effort. Dershowitz, an emeritus professor of law at Harvard, is a constitutional and criminal law scholar and is known for his staunch defense of civil liberties and individual rights.