Well, that’s a profile in courage. Who wouldn’t prefer a job making huge bank defending Sam Walton and his heirs instead of defending the Constitution?
So her husband clerked on the SC for Clarence Thomas and works for a firm that has Rick Gates as one of its major clients, and she actively declined to continue in a role that could involve protecting the Mueller investigation.
A cynic might put those two things together and conclude that neither she or her husband want any harm to come to TrumpCo.
She daydreams about being elevated to the US Supreme Court. She didn’t want to be the next Robert Bork. Personally, I don’t think we need a career coward on the Court.
Yes, bluestatedon, all profile and no courage with Ms. Brand.
Seeing to completion an investigation of alleged election tampering by Russia and possible involvement in that scheme by the current sitting President. Yeah, sounds like trivial nonsense a good lawyer and prosecutor would consider beneath their station.
She looks formidable. As PGW said of Spode: “An eye that could open an oyster at sixty paces.”
Obviously not a Trump Brand…
I haven’t seen it mentioned here on TPM, but her husband, Jonathan F. Cohn, works for Sidley Austin LLC.
Thomas C. Green, laywer for Richard W.Gates III aka “Rick” Gates also works for that firm, so kind of akward situation if she became acting head of DOJ…
With her new-found wealth she will know the price of everything, yet the value of nothing…just like Walmart shoppers in general.
She will be consigned, correctly, to the dustbin of history. Many are called, few are chosen.
She left in place someone next in line who was a clerk for Scalia. She is a Republican appointee. She put her career and immediate even higher income ahead of her responsibility to her country, and for something that may not happen. I assume she will have to move from DC to Bentonville Arkansas. Serves her right.
There was a possibility that she could have ended up in history books as a profile in courage, or as perhaps she was figuring on, a doormat for an incompetent tyrant.
“An eye that could open an oyster at sixty paces.”
And at the rate she’ll be pulling down the bucks, she can eat those oysters for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Tom Green, laywer for Richard W.Gates III aka “Rick” Gates also works for that firm…
yep
"Richard Gates has hired a top white-collar attorney who was spotted at special counsel Robert Mueller’s office twice over the past week, CNN reported Tuesday. Gates, a former business associate of former Trump campaign head Paul Manafort, has been charged in Mueller’s probe into Russia’s election interference. CNN reported that he recently added top D.C. defense attorney Tom Green to his legal team.
According to CNN, Green was seen at Mueller’s office two times last week, suggesting that Gates might be in negotiations with the special counsel. The network noted that Green is not listed as an attorney for Gates in the court records, and works for a law firm different from that of the rest of the lawyers on Gates’s team."
Her boss is the President. Would you want to work for a lazy, sloppy bully? Plus, the money has to be multiple times better. And she will answer to a Board and not a juvenile , narcissistic, intelligence challenged, phony, reality TV actor.
Those sorts of things have been navigated before. Hubby might have had to withdraw. So what?
Why would the wife be the one to sacrifice her potential place in history?
They are both pretty conservative Republicans, I think, they probably made a classical conservative choice ?
Oh c’mon. ANYONE worried about their career should not work for ANYTHING this Administration touches.
The voters created this mess the voters need to clear it up.
“. . . Brand was also frustrated by continuing vacancies at the Justice Department.”
So she created another one. Not exactly part of the solution, was she?