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</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2021/12/jenna-ellis/">https://www.alternet.org/2021/12/jenna-ellis/</a></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" /><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></div><div>Following the 2020 presidential election, attorney Jenna Ellis worked closely with former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and other members of then-President Donald Trump’s legal team and aggressively promoted Trump’s false, totally debunked claim that the election was stolen from him because of widespread voter fraud.&nbsp;<b>Politico is now reporting that Ellis, in two legal memos, claimed that then-Vice President Mike Pence could refuse to count the presidential electors in states that now-President Joe Biden won.</b></div><div>
</div><div>According to Politico reporters Betsy Woodruff Swan and Kyle Cheney, “The memos from then-Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis, which contain widely disputed legal theories about Pence’s ability to stop a Biden presidency, underscore Ellis’ promotion of extreme arguments that she promulgated amid Trump's effort to reverse the election results<b>. Her actions have remained largely below the radar as House investigators probe Trump’s inner circle.”</b></div><div><b>
</b></div><div><b>The first memo, Swan and Cheney report, was written on December 31, 2020, and the second was written on January 5 — the day before Congress counted the electoral votes for the presidential election and certified Biden’s Electoral College victory.</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“A December 31 Ellis memo delivered to Trump’s office suggested that Pence — who was constitutionally responsible for presiding over Congress’ counting of electoral votes on January 6 — should simply refuse to open envelopes from states whose election results Trump considered to be fraudulent,”</span>&nbsp;Swan and Cheney explain. “That memo was described by ABC reporter Jonathan Karl in his recent book ‘Betrayal.’ Politico is publishing it in full for the first time.”</div><div>
</div><div>Swan and Cheney continue, “<b>In a second, previously unreported memo dated January 5, Ellis made a more technical legal argument that she delivered to <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Jay Sekulow, one of Trump's outside lawyers. Sekulow represented Trump during his first impeachment and in a series of legal battles during his administration, but he had minimal involvement in Trump’s election litigation</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">. The exception was an early November Supreme Court case regarding Pennsylvania’s mail-in ballots.’</span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Politico journalists note that in the January 5 memo, Ellis “argued that key provisions of the Electoral Count Act — limiting Pence’s authority to affirm or reject certain electors — were likely unconstitutional.”</span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">“She concluded that Pence, while presiding over lawmakers’ counting of electors, should simply halt the process when their alphabetical proceeding reached Arizona,” Swan and Cheney report. “Then, she said, he should declare that the state failed to meet the legal standard for certifying its own electors and ‘require the final ascertainment of electors to be completed before continuing.’”</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>Ellis has reacted angrily to Politico’s reporting on her December 31 and January 5 memos. The right-wing attorney tweeted:</b></div><div><b>
</b></div><div><b>Wondering how @politico thinks it\u2019s responsible or ethical journalism to publish attorney-client privileged documents</b>.\n\nThey admit they are the first to publish in their entirety the two Ellis memos, which both have the banner \u201cATTORNEY-CLIENT PRIVILEGED.\u201d\n\n<b>Trump hatred persists</b>.</div><div>— Jenna Ellis (@Jenna Ellis) 1639164702</div><div>She appeared to confirm the authenticity of the report. Her claim the Politico violated journalistic ethics is baseless.</div><div>
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</font></div><div><div class="mce-content-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><div class="layout-constrain--narrow" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 47.2222em; padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; font-style: inherit;">Conservative evangelical churches and advocacy groups led by vocal boosters of President Donald Trump have received millions of dollars in coronavirus relief funds, marking a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/will-team-trump-use-coronavirus-crisis-to-further-dismantle-church-state-wall/" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">new milestone</a>&nbsp;in the religious</span>​&nbsp;right’s long campaign to take a wrecking ball to the wall separating church and state.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">The Paycheck Protection Program included in coronavirus relief legislation was designed to help small businesses and other organizations stay afloat and keep people working during the pandemic. Religious-right leaders&nbsp;<a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/will-team-trump-use-coronavirus-crisis-to-further-dismantle-church-state-wall/" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">worked with​</a>&nbsp;​their&nbsp;allies in Congress and the&nbsp;​Trump&nbsp;administration to make sure that churches would be able to&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">receive direct government funding to support clergy salaries and other operational expenses. The program is administered by the Small Business Administration, which&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sba.gov/sites/default/files/2020-04/SBA%20Faith-Based%20FAQ%20Final.pdf" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">waived normal requirements</a>&nbsp;that participants in its loan program abide by nondiscrimination standards.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On June 22, the&nbsp;<a href="https://vekeo.com/smallbusinessadministration/" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">SBA hosted a “Recovery & Resilience for Faith Based Communities tele-townhall”</a>&nbsp;for leaders of churches and religious nonprofits to urge them to participate in the program by applying before the June 30 deadline—and to lavish praise on Trump for supporting the program.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;The call was promoted by the White House and&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">religious-righ</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">t</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;figures like Gary Bauer.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Paula White, who oversees the Trump administration’s faith-based outreach from her perch at the White House, began the call by praying for the president. “Put a hedge and&nbsp;<b>wall of fire around him that no weapon formed against him would be able to prosper,” White prayed.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">White praised Trump and his administration’s extensively, saying​,&nbsp;“it has always been his heart to make sure that houses of worship and people of faith have been protected.” She continued:</font></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(239, 243, 243); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; hyphens: none; padding: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0.75em 2em;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">You heard that from way back, he was saying, ‘We’re going to put Merry back in Christmas,’ or talking about the Johnson Amendment. But he’s done so much to accomplish that. Things with religious freedom, like removing restrictions on grants. The PPP is one way that we begin to see this. There are so many others, but there are departments everywhere that have grants, and for years and decades, they’ve had restrictions that people of faith have had very, very difficult time. Well, our president made sure to remove those restrictions on grants, ensuring faith-based has equal access to capital, equal access to grant money.</font></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><b>White’s own City of Destiny church got between $150,000 and $350,000 in PPP funds, according to SBA records​.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">To overcome&nbsp;<a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/right-wing-congressman-rationalizes-pastors-taking-federal-coronavirus-cash-the-government-created-this-situation/" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">the skepticism some conservative Christian leaders might have</a>&nbsp;about getting directly involved with the federal government, officials invited several prominent religious-right leaders to praise the program. While PPP funds could be a lifeline to smaller congregations and nonprofits, it turns out that staying afloat has not been a problem for some megachurches that had online worship and fundraising abilities​. Instead, some of those megachurches have&nbsp;used money freed up by paycheck protection to expand their influence in their local communities.​</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Jentezen Franklin, a member of Trump’s Evangelical Advisory Board, is pastor of the multi-campus Free Chapel megachurch, based in Gainesville, Georgia. Franklin was effusive on the SBA call​, marveling that his church received a “tremendous amount of money” within three weeks of applying for it. Data released by the SBA Monday make it clearer how “tremendous” that&nbsp;amount&nbsp;was—in the&nbsp;<b>$1​ million to $2 million range.</b>&nbsp;With payroll covered by government funds and the ability to “catch up online,” Franklin said his church distributed $340,000 to small churches in his community.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><b>Franklin has urged evangelicals to help reelect Trump or​ be prepared to face&nbsp;<a href="https://www.toddstarnes.com/values/jentezen-franklin-warns-of-dark-days-for-america-if-evangelicals-dont-vote-in-2020/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">tragic</a>&nbsp;consequences.</b>&nbsp;Trump publicly announced that he was watching Franklin’s worship service on March 15, which Trump had declared a national day of prayer.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><b>Samuel Rodriguez, a pastor who prayed at Trump’s inauguration and president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference</b>, said PPP money​ was&nbsp;“like manna in the desert of this pandemic.” Rodiguez said the church was “made for this hour,” adding that “for this administration to recognize the church and the faith community as essential is a game​ changer.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Rodriguez’s New Season&nbsp;​Church in Sacramento​, California,&nbsp;received between $150,000 and $350,000. He said the money has helped his own church not just survive but help other churches and expand community outreach. Rodriguez, who recently denounced the Democratic Party as “<a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/samuel-rodriguez-says-democrats-are-hostile-to-our-christian-worldview-in-every-sense-of-the-word/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">hostile to our Christian worldview,</a>”&nbsp;​called the program a “powerful resource” and a “blessing.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">“<b>This is Uncle Sam helping us do the will of our heavenly father,</b>”&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Rodriguez said. “So the PPP enabled us to cover payroll for our staff that is right now praying for interceding for the needs of our community, not just physical, spiritual, but in mental and emotional needs, literally saving lives.”</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><b>Also on the SBA call was another&nbsp;<a href="https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2016/june-web-only/whos-who-of-trumps-tremendous-faith-advisors.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">member</a>&nbsp;of Trump’s evangelical advisory board, James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family</b>&nbsp;and longtime opponent of reproductive choice and LGBTQ equality. Dobson said that his organization, the James Dobson Family Institute, “has literally been kept solvent this spring and summer by the Paycheck Protection Plan.” Dobson said that thanks to the money his organization had received,&nbsp;​adding,&nbsp;“We have not asked for a cent from anybody in six months.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Other Trump-supporting leaders and organizations have done quite well. Here’s a sampling, drawn from our own research and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/virus-loans-helped-entities-tied-to-trump-evangelical-allies/2020/07/07/5b4303c8-c007-11ea-8908-68a2b9eae9e0_story.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">other reporting on the SBA records</a>:</font></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1.2em; line-height: 1.5; list-style: none;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">First Baptist Church of Dallas, Texas, led by Trump cheerleader<b>&nbsp;Robert Jeffress,</b>&nbsp;was among the megachurches listed as having received​ between $2 million and $5 million. Another was Guillermo Maldonado’s King Jesus International Ministry, which&nbsp;<a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/evangelicals-for-trump-host-says-god-raised-up-trump-as-part-of-plan-for-end-times-second-coming/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">hosted</a>&nbsp;an Evangelicals for Trump campaign launch last year.</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style=""><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">The American Center for Law and Justice, part of the lucrative legal empire of Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow and his family, got between $1 million and $2 million.</b></font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">The anti-LGBTQ advocates at Liberty Counsel&nbsp;</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">​</span>received between $350,000 and $1 million.</font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><b>​End Times pastor&nbsp;Jim Bakker</b>’s Morningside Church got between $350,000 and $1 million.</font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Televangelist&nbsp;</span>Rick Joyner’s Morningstar Church got between $350,000 and $1 million.</font></li></ul><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Initially, the idea of tax dollars directly supporting clergy and church operations was defended as an extraordinary response to the unique situation caused by the pandemic. But on&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/paula-whites-one-voice-prayer-movement-a-thinly-disguised-political-operation-for-trump/" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">a phone call organized by Paul​a&nbsp;White’s One Voice Prayer Movement</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;in May,</span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;former Rep. Randy Forbes&nbsp;​of Virginia, founder of the Congressional Prayer Caucus, celebrated&nbsp;​that​&nbsp;“precedents for religious freedom” that&nbsp;​are​&nbsp;being set during the pandemic</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">—specifically&nbsp;<a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/will-team-trump-use-coronavirus-crisis-to-further-dismantle-church-state-wall/" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">the unprecedented use of federal tax dollars to directly fund clergy and churches</a>—“are going to endure long after this coronavirus has gone.”</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Marcus Harris, director of faith and community initiatives in the office of Entrepreneurial Development at the SBA, told people in the call, “One thing I’m able to say in my role as the faith-based leader here at SBA is that I know for many of you this is your first interaction with SBA, but we do not want this to be your last,” a sentiment that was repeated by SBA Administrator Jovita Carranza.</font></p><div class="at-below-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/trumps-religious-right-backers-get-millions-in-covid%e2%80%8b-19-relief/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;"><div class="layout-constrain--narrow" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 47.2222em; padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; border-top: 5px solid rgb(239, 243, 243); margin-bottom: 2em; padding-top: 1em;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; font-weight: 700;">Tags:</span>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/donald-trump/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Donald Trump</a><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/james-dobson/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">James Dobson</a><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/jentezen-franklin/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Jentezen Franklin</a><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/jim-bakker/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Jim Bakker</a><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/paula-white/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Paula White</a><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/rick-joyner/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Rick Joyner</a><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/robert-jeffress/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Robert Jeffress</a><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/samuel-rodriguez/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Samuel Rodriguez</a><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/topics/church-state/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Church-State</a><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/topics/coronavirus/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Coronavirus</a><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/topics/election-2020/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Election 2020</a><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/topics/trump-administration/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Trump Administration</a><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/organizations/american-center-for-law-and-justice/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">American Center for Law and Justice</a><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/organizations/first-baptist-church-dallas/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">First Baptist Church Dallas</a><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/organizations/liberty-counsel/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Liberty Counsel</a><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/organizations/trump-administration/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Trump Administration</a></font></p></div></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">// cbn</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" style="font-size: small;"><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">During his speech, Barr (who is a Catholic, not a Protestant evangelical) railed against secularism in the United States — telling the crowd, “While most everyone agrees that we must have separation of church and state, this does not require that we drive religion from the public square and affirmatively use government power to promote a culture of disbelief.”</font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Barr also made the tired claim that liberals and progressives want to encourage dependency on the government — even though, truth to be told, there is a difference between giving someone a hand up (as Sen. Bernie Sanders and Sen. Elizabeth Warren recommend) and giving someone a handout.</font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>
</b></font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>“The tacit goal of this project is to convert all of us into 25-year-olds living in the government’s basement,&nbsp;</b>focusing our energies on obtaining a larger allowance rather than getting a job, and moving out and taking responsibility for ourselves,” Barr told the crowd.</font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">DeVos (the sister of Blackwater mercenary Erik Prince) spoke at the convention earlier in the day and called for more government support for religious schools. Attorney </font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Jay Sekulow,</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> who was part of Trump’s defense team during his impeachment trial before the U.S. Senate, was scheduled to appear on the same panel as DeVos but had to cancel his appearance due to illness.</font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div></div><div style="font-size: small;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></div></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">rww 120</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><section style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><div class="mce-content-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><div class="layout-constrain--narrow" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 47.2222em; padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">As President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial gets underway in the U.S. Senate, his&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/17/politics/donald-trump-impeachment-legal-team-alan-dershowitz-ken-starr/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">ever-growing legal team</a>&nbsp;is being led by the team of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/jay-sekulow/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Jay Sekulow</a>, a religious-right attorney who shares Trump’s dubious relationship to the truth as well as the president’s penchant for&nbsp;<a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/guardian-report-sekulows-nonprofit-has-steered-60-million-to-his-family/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">self-enrichment,</a>&nbsp;together with White House Counsel Pat Cipollone, who is part of an influential group of Washington, D.C. attorneys on the Catholic right.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Sekulow was first hired by Trump in 2017 to lead the administration’s defense of the president in the investigation led by Special Counsel Robert Mueller of the Trump campaign’s relationship to Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election. In that role, Sekulow is said to have orchestrated what amount to cover-ups.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><b>In 2018, Sekulow was forced to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/trump-attorney-jay-sekulow-admits-misled-public-trump-tower-meeting-facts-develop-time/" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">admit</a>&nbsp;that he had misled the public regarding a statement issued under the name of Donald Trump Jr. regarding the purpose of ​a​ 2016 Trump Tower meeting that ​Trump Jr. and other campaign officials had with Russian operatives​ in hope of obtaining “dirt” on his rival, Democrat Hillary Clinton</b>. Sekulow ​claimed that the president had nothing to do with writing the statement, only to walk that back when contradicted by the president himself.&nbsp; “Over time, facts develop​,” ​Sekulow said in his own defense. Last spring<b>, Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, told members of Congress that&nbsp;<a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/michael-cohen-testified-that-trump-lawyer-jay-sekulow-told-him-to-give-false-info-to-congress/" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Sekulow had told him to lie</a>&nbsp;​to Congress about​ the fact that the Trump Organization continued to engage in negotiations to build a Trump Tower in Moscow ​e</b>ven as Trump campaign figures met with Russian operatives. Sekulow denied ​”editing” Cohen’s congressional testimony, as Cohen, who is now in prison for lying to Congress, described it.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">More recently, revelations from the House Intelligence Committee and Lev Parnas, who is implicated in the Trump administration’s alleged scheme to find smear material in Ukraine about Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, have placed Sekulow in the middle of team Trump’s machinations in Ukraine. It&nbsp;<a href="https://theweek.com/speedreads/890079/trump-lawyer-jay-sekulow-knew-about-ukraine-scheme-didnt-want-involved-lev-parnas-says" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">turns out</a>&nbsp;that Sekulow told former Trump attorney John Dowd that the president was OK with Dowd representing Parnas and his business partner Igor Fruman, undercutting Trump’s claims not to know Parnas. Sekulow was also named in a&nbsp;<a title="https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/20200114-hpsci_transmittal_letter_to_hjc-new_evidence.pdf" href="https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/20200114-hpsci_transmittal_letter_to_hjc-new_evidence.pdf" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">text by Rudy Giuliani</a>, the president’s personal attorney, as the person who could secure a visa for the corrupt Ukrainian former prosecutor, Viktor Shokin.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">As Right Wing Watch has&nbsp;<a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/who-is-jay-sekulow-trump-attorney-funnels-millions-to-his-family-through-non-profits/" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">documented</a>, Sekulow has a long track record of promoting false right-wing claims and campaigns, including&nbsp;<a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/foxs-seth-rich-conspiracy-has-collapsed-but-right-wing-outlets-keep-pushing-it/" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">right-wing conspiracy theories about the murder of DNC staffer Seth Rich</a>&nbsp;and the claim that faithful Muslims cannot truthfully swear loyalty to the U.S. Constitution.​</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><b>​Former White House aide Steve Bannon&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/17/us/politics/jay-sekulow-trump-impeachment.html" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">reportedly</a>&nbsp;suggested during the Mueller investigation that Trump&nbsp;<a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/what-made-trump-hire-religious-right-lawyer-jay-sekulow/" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">hire</a>&nbsp;Sekulow, who has been a zealous defender of the president on Fox News,&nbsp;​in&nbsp;Christian media, and&nbsp;​on&nbsp;his own radio show.</b> Sekulow, for example,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/trump-reportedly-compromised-a-spy-but-jay-sekulow-dismisses-concerns-as-absurd/" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">defended</a>&nbsp;Trump ​in 2017 when the president reportedly gave ​highly sensitive secret intelligence ​to Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov​ during a meeting in the Oval Office. A recent New York Times&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/17/us/politics/jay-sekulow-trump-impeachment.html" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">profile</a>&nbsp;of Sekulow quoted an attorney involved in ​attorney Kenn​eth Starr’s ​investigation into former President Bill Clinton ​saying that Sekulow’s primary qualification for leading the legal team may be that “he’s got more experience in defending this president than anybody.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; font-weight: 700;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">A lucrative family business</font></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Representing Trump&nbsp;<u style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><a href="https://time.com/5219245/jay-sekulow-donald-trump-russia-lawyer/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">in the Mueller investigation</a></u>&nbsp;has been&nbsp;<u style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/rnc-spent-230k-month-covering-trumps-legal-fees/story?id=49973703" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">lucrative</a></u>&nbsp;for&nbsp;Sekulow. The Daily Beast&nbsp;<u style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-legal-team-shared-office-space-with-top-conservative-legal-group" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">reported in 2018</a></u>&nbsp;that Trump’s legal team was paying the ACLJ to work out of its Washington office. But none of that is as financially rewarding as Sekulow’s career leading a nonprofit advocacy organization that is part of the religious right.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style=""><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In 1990, Pat Robertson, the erstwhile Republican presidential candidate and Christian Broadcasting Network founder, placed Sekulow at the helm of a new, Robertson-founded entity, the American Center for Law and Justice</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. The organization’s stated aim was to act as a </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">counterweight to the American Civil Liberties Union,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and the group went as far as to craft the name to have an abbreviation just one letter different than that of the longtime civil rights legal organization.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Over the years, multiple reporters have investigated the ways that the ACLJ and an affiliated&nbsp;nonprofit, Christian Advocates Serving Evangelism, have&nbsp;enriched the bank accounts and lifestyles of&nbsp;Sekulow&nbsp;and members of his family.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Sekulow’s lucrative family “nonprofit” business was first investigated by Legal Times’ Tony Mauro back in 2005. Mauro reported that while Sekulow had become a familiar face on television for his work on behalf of the ACLJ and&nbsp;<u style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/whither-the-four-horsemen/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">his advocacy for George W. Bush’s judicial nominees</a></u>, there was another side to&nbsp;Sekulow:</font></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(239, 243, 243); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; hyphens: none; padding: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0.75em 2em;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">It is the Jay&nbsp;Sekulow&nbsp;who, 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 l<b>avish lifestyle — complete with multiple homes, chauffeur-driven cars, and a private jet that he once used to ferry Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia</b>.</font></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">The Legal Times noted that at the&nbsp;time, CASE’s&nbsp;board of directors consisted of&nbsp;Sekulow, his wife Pam, and his son Jordan, with his well-paid brother serving as chief financial officer.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Six years later, in 2011, the Tennessean’s Bob&nbsp;Smietana&nbsp;<u style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/the-aclj-is-a-sekulow-family-affair/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">took another look</a></u>. In an article titled “Christian&nbsp;crusaders&nbsp;cash in,” the paper&nbsp;<u style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><a href="https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2011/09/lawyer-jay-sekulow.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">reported</a></u>&nbsp;that since 1988, CASE and the ACLJ had “paid out more than $33 million to members of&nbsp;Sekulow’s&nbsp;family and businesses they own or co-own.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><b>In 2017, the Guardian reported that CASE had steered more than $60 million to “Sekulow, his family and their businesses” since 2000.&nbsp; </b>In addition to paying millions to “Sekulow, his wife, sons, brother, sister-in-law, niece and nephew and their firms,” the Guardian&nbsp;<u style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/27/trump-lawyer-jay-sekulow-donations" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">reported</a></u>&nbsp;CASE “has also been used to provide a series of unusual loans and property deals to the&nbsp;Sekulow&nbsp;family.” Among the deals the story examined were forgiven loans for a vacation home for&nbsp;Sekulow’s&nbsp;wife Pam and the purchase of a townhouse in Washington D.C. at which&nbsp;Sekulow’s&nbsp;son Jordan and his wife were registered to vote.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">The Washington Post also&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/trump-attorney-jay-sekulows-family-has-been-paid-millions-from-charities-they-control/2017/06/27/6428d988-5852-11e7-ba90-f5875b7d1876_story.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">examined</a>&nbsp;Sekulow’s finances in 2017, documenting that his family had been “paid millions from charities they control.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; font-weight: 700;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">A religious-right culture warrior</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">As part of his public defense of Trump even before joining the president’s legal team,&nbsp;Sekulow&nbsp;said that&nbsp;<u style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/religious-right-legal-leader-of-course-states-could-punish-women-for-abortion/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Trump was right to suggest that women could face criminal punishment for having an abortion</a></u>&nbsp;once&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">Roe v. Wade</em>&nbsp;is overturned. In 2017, Rewire reviewed&nbsp;<u style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><a href="https://rewire.news/article/2017/08/22/trump-lawyer-worked-anti-choice-radicals-decades/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Sekulow’s&nbsp;long record of attacks on Planned Parenthood and abortion rights</a></u>.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">The cases the ACLJ takes up seek to implement the religious right’s opposition to abortion rights and legal protections for LGBTQ people in the U.S. and other countries. Sekulow has&nbsp;<a href="http://www.politicalresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2012/10/Colonizing-African-Values.pdf" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">said</a>&nbsp;that the state has a “compelling interest to ban the act of homosexuality​,” and the ACLJ argued on behalf of state laws criminalizing gay sex that were overturned by the Supreme Court in 2003. In 2011, Sekulow claimed that the Obama administration’s decision to stop defending the Defense of Marriage Act in court meant that Americans were “<u style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/sekulow-doma-decision-means-were-now-living-in-a-monarchy/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">now living in a monarchy</a></u>.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">John Fea, a historian at Messiah College,&nbsp;<a href="https://thewayofimprovement.com/2020/01/18/who-is-jay-sekulow/" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">wrote</a>&nbsp;recently about Sekulow’s​ long affiliation with Charisma’s&nbsp;<a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/stephen-strang" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Stephen Strang</a>, who uses his Pentecostal-oriented media outlet and book publishing arm to aggressively promote the claim that Trump has been anointed by God to lead the U.S</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.​</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But perhaps even greater an attraction for Trump than Sekulow’s links to the Christian nationalist crowd that comprises an important part of Trump’s base is Sekulow’s prowess as a prevaricator in front of cameras and microphones.&nbsp;As&nbsp;</span><u style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/what-made-trump-hire-religious-right-lawyer-jay-sekulow/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">we noted when&nbsp;Sekulow&nbsp;joined Trump’s legal team</a></u><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, “</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Early in the Obama administration, Sekulow&nbsp;<u style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/report/the-big-lie-strategy-religious-right-stokes-false-fears-of-religious-persecution/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">manufactured an alarmist right-wing campaign</a></u>&nbsp;against a stimulus bill for&nbsp;<u style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/aclj-demands-non-existent-threat-be-stripped-from-stimulus-bill/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">supposedly including language to institutionalize anti-religious discrimination</a></u>&nbsp;on college campuses.”</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> The “discriminatory” provision “discovered” and hyped by ACLJ turned out to be boilerplate language that had been included in legislation for decades and upheld by the Supreme Court. This is just one of many false right-wing campaigns and claims Sekulow has promoted. Here are a few more:</span></font></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1.2em; line-height: 1.5; list-style: none;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Back in 2009, the ACLJ was&nbsp;<u style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/aclj-out-front-of-another-bogus-controversy/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">among the right-wing groups&nbsp;</a></u>that&nbsp;<u style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/dhs-report-an-attack-on-christ/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">grossly mischaracterized</a></u>&nbsp;a Department of Homeland Security report on the dangers of right-wing extremism in order to portray the Obama-era DHS as smearing conservatives, anti-abortion activists, and veterans.</font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">In 2010, the ACLJ, which postures as a champion of religious liberty,&nbsp;<u style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/aclj-vows-to-continue-fighting-ground-zero-mosque/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">helped lead the fight&nbsp;</a></u>against the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque”—an Islamic community center that had planned to move into a building in downtown Manhattan a few blocks from the former site of the World Trade Center towers. Trump was among the public figures&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mrc.org/biasalerts/lettermans-irritation-trump-denounces-ground-zero-mosque-insensitive-somebody-knocked" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">railing against the project</a>.</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The following year, Sekulow and Pat Robertson&nbsp;<u style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/robertson-sekulow-claim-that-sharia-law-is-headed-to-the-constitution/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">warned</a></u>&nbsp;that Sharia law was threatening the U.S. Constitution, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;and&nbsp;</span><u style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/aclj-looking-to-outlaw-islam-let-us-help/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">offered</a></u><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;to help state legislators write and defend anti-Sharia laws. In a publication called “</span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Shari’a&nbsp;Law: </b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Radical Islam’s Threat to the U.S. Constitution,” the&nbsp;</span><u style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/report/the-right-wing-playbook-on-anti-muslim-extremism/#strat3" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">ACLJ asserted</a></u><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, “Because Islam grew out of the belief in complete world domination, every Muslim is obligated to labor in his own way toward achieving that goal, no matter where he lives or what sovereign claims his allegiance.” The pamphlet argued that Muslims cannot be loyal Americans, asserting that “devout Muslims cannot truthfully swear the oath to become citizens of the United States of America.”</span></font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">In 2012,&nbsp;<u style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/jay-sekulow-continues-to-push-false-claim-that-obama-is-threatening-military-voters/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Sekulow&nbsp;pushed a bogus allegation&nbsp;</a></u>that the Obama administration was trying to suppress the votes of servicemembers, after the allegation had already been debunked.</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In 2014, Sekulow&nbsp;<u style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/jay-sekulow-touts-phony-internet-scandal-claims-it-will-censor-the-church/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">pushed another charge&nbsp;</a></u>against Obama, alleging that “the President wants to hand over control of the Internet to a multinational group, including corrupt&nbsp;dictatorships&nbsp;in China, Russian, and Iran.”</font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><b>In 2017,&nbsp;Sekulow&nbsp;joined Sean Hannity in&nbsp;<u style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2017/05/18/jay-sekulow-joins-hannity-shamefully-push-seth-rich-murder-conspiracy-theory/216557" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">promoting the conspiracy&nbsp;</a></u>that Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich </b>was not killed in a bungled robbery but was murdered because, according to&nbsp;<u style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/foxs-seth-rich-conspiracy-has-collapsed-but-right-wing-outlets-keep-pushing-it/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">the baseless conspiracy theory</a></u>, he was the source of the DNC emails leaked to WikiLeaks.</font></li></ul><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; font-weight: 700;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Sekulow’s global agenda</font></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Sekulow and the ACLJ have been intensely opposed to laws protecting the rights of LGBTQ people in the U.S. and abroad. The ACLJ argued on behalf of state laws criminalizing gay sex that were overturned by the Supreme Court in 2003. Sekulow has&nbsp;<u style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><a href="http://www.politicalresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2012/10/Colonizing-African-Values.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">said</a></u>&nbsp;that the state has a “compelling interest to ban the act of homosexuality.”&nbsp; Sekulow, who doesn’t seem to object to Trump’s aggressive use of executive power, complained during the Obama years that the administration’s decision to stop defending the Defense of Marriage Act in court meant that Americans were “<u style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/sekulow-doma-decision-means-were-now-living-in-a-monarchy/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">now living in a monarchy</a></u>.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">For Sekulow, the criminalization of gay people is a global effort.&nbsp;As we&nbsp;<u style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/what-made-trump-hire-religious-right-lawyer-jay-sekulow/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">noted</a></u>&nbsp;in 2017:</font></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(239, 243, 243); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; hyphens: none; padding: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0.75em 2em;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">The ACLJ and its international affiliates engage in anti-LGBTQ and anti-choice culture wars in the U.S.,&nbsp;<u style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><a href="http://www.politicalresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2012/10/Colonizing-African-Values.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Africa</a></u>, Europe and Russia. In Africa, it worked to shape constitutional language in Zimbabwe, where it has&nbsp;<u style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/11/mitt-romney-jay-sekulow-outlaw-homosexuality-abortion-africa/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">fought to maintain criminalization of homosexuality</a></u>, and&nbsp;<u style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/robertsons-aclj-shaping-kenyas-constitution/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Kenya</a></u>, where it&nbsp;<u style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/11/mitt-romney-jay-sekulow-outlaw-homosexuality-abortion-africa/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">lobbied</a></u>&nbsp;to eliminate an exemption to an abortion ban to save a woman’s life. Both the European Center for Law and Justice and the Slavic Center for Law and Justice supported Russia’s notorious anti-gay “propaganda” law, which has been used against journalists and gay rights activists.</font></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">The Slavic Center for Law and Justice responded to the 2012 protest by​the political art collective, Pussy Riot, by calling for a Russian law&nbsp;<u style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/religious-right-freedom-and-liberty-group-aclj-backed-russian-gay-propaganda-and-blasphemy-bans/" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">toughening penalties for religious blasphemy</a></u>. The European Center for Law and Justice, in contrast, has energetically&nbsp;<u style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/religious-right-freedom-and-liberty-group-aclj-backed-russian-gay-propaganda-and-blasphemy-bans/" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">opposed</a></u>&nbsp;blasphemy laws in Islamist countries. But&nbsp;Sekulow&nbsp;has&nbsp;<u style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/aclj-blasphemy-laws-for-me-but-not-for-thee/" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">bemoaned</a></u>&nbsp;the fact that blasphemy is no longer criminalized in the United States.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Sekulow&nbsp;has also been&nbsp;<u style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><a href="https://thinkprogress.org/sekulow-johnson-amendment-church-state-64ff6138a01d/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">a longtime opponent of the Johnson Amendment</a></u>, the legal provision that prohibits overt electoral politicking by churches and other tax-exempt nonprofits. Part of the deal candidate Trump offered religious-right leaders in return for their political support was a pledge to make them more politically powerful by repealing the Johnson Amendment.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; font-weight: 700;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Sekulow’s idea of “truth” is a lot like Trump’s</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In 2018, Sekulow&nbsp;helped Trump push what&nbsp;ThinkProgress&nbsp;called “<u style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><a href="https://thinkprogress.org/jay-sekulow-trump-interview-lester-holt-nbc-obstruction-of-justice-cnn-chris-cuomo-e8d8c6c08922/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">an insane lie</a></u>” suggesting that Trump had not really said what he said in an interview a year earlier with NBC’s Lester Holt.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> In that interview, the president essentially said that he had fired former FBI Director James Comey because of Comey’s role in conducting the investigation into Trump’s relationship to Russian figures who may be connected to Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">That came just a month after&nbsp;Sekulow&nbsp;was&nbsp;<u style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><a href="https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/trump-attorney-jay-sekulow-admits-misled-public-trump-tower-meeting-facts-develop-time/" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">forced to admit that he hadn’t told the truth</a></u>&nbsp;about the meeting Donald Trump Jr. and other campaign officials had with Russian operatives in Trump Tower in 2016. (He had said the subject ​of the June 2016 meeting was about U.S. policy about adoption of Russian orphans​, not getting dirt on Trump’s Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.)</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">In 2017, Slate’s William&nbsp;Saletan&nbsp;noted that&nbsp;Sekulow&nbsp;had not only been defending the president in a round of TV appearances, but that he had also accused Trump’s opponents of crimes. “If you doubt Trump is trying to bury the truth,”&nbsp;<a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2017/07/how_jay_sekulow_tries_to_bury_the_truth.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Saletan&nbsp;wrote</a>, “just watch his lawyer.” Still good advice.</font></p><div class="at-below-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/jay-sekulow-heads-trumps-legal-team-shares-his-dubious-relationship-with-the-truth/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;"><div class="layout-constrain--narrow" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 47.2222em; padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 1em;"><div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; border-top: 5px solid rgb(239, 243, 243); margin-bottom: 2em; padding-top: 1em;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; font-weight: 700;">Tags:</span>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/donald-trump/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Donald Trump</a><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/jay-sekulow/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Jay Sekulow</a><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/topics/impeachment/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Impeachment</a><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/topics/russia-investigation/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Russia Investigation</a><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/organizations/american-center-for-law-and-justice/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">American Center for Law and Justic</a></font></p></div></div></div></div></div></section></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="" helvetica="Helvetica" light="Light" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Associated Press&nbsp;</span><a href="https://apnews.com/9d2ed80ca912d18abd6650f55d2db935" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;" helvetica="Helvetica" light="Light" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px">examines</a><span style="" helvetica="Helvetica" light="Light" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">&nbsp;how Jay Sekulow has used a complex web of charities and businesses to enrich himself and his family: “The records from 2008 to 2017, the most recent year available, show that more than $65 million in charitable funds were paid to Sekulow, his wife, his sons, his brother, his sister-in-law, his nephew and corporations they own.”</span></font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/01/sean-hannity-and-fox-news-are-up-to-their-hair-plugs-in-the-lev-parnas-affair/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.alternet.org/2020/01/sean-hannity-and-fox-news-are-up-to-their-hair-plugs-in-the-lev-parnas-affair/</font></a></div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">no lnx</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Written by News Corpse, Daily Kos January 17, 2020</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">With each new day there are new and damning revelations affirming Donald Trump’s criminal behavior related to Ukraine and efforts to manufacture dirt on Joe Biden and subvert the 2020 election. The latest bombshells come from Lev Parnas, an associate of Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani, whose nefarious activities include extorting Ukrainian President Zelensky and surveilling former U.S. Ambassador Marie Yovanovich.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Parnas was interviewed on MSNBC Wednesday by Rachel Maddow in a wide ranging discussion that made it clear that Trump “knew exactly what was going on” and was lying about his feigned ignorance of Parnas and his mission. But the evidence of Trump’s guilt is abundant. Also interesting is the evidence of Hannity’s guilt, and that of Fox News.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Proof is emerging of Hannity’s relationship with the Giuliani Crew. Hannity himself is in bed with Parnas. They have had communications that resulted in Hannity tweeting about bogus allegations of Ukrainian interference in the U.S. election to help Hillary Clinton. That tweet was deleted, but remains archived</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. T</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">rump, however, didn’t delete his subsequent tweet promoting Hannity’s story on the subject that same night. Likewise, The Giuliani Crew also communicated with Don Trump Jr, who posted a tweet attacking Yovanovich. So their is an unbroken chain of propaganda circling around between Trump, Giuliani, his Ukraine mob, Fox News, and back to Trump and his crime family.</span></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>What’s more, Parnas had much to share about the complicity of Fox News in Trump’s plot to coerce Zelensky into helping him smear Biden. The Giuliani team worked with right-wing author John Solomon to disseminate their lies. At the time Solomon worked for The Hill, but is now employed by Fox News. So naturally Hannity unleashed a furious assault on Parnas and the network that hosted him</b>. Hannity’s rage was so intense that he lapsed into the sort of incoherent outbursts you might hear from a paranoid schizophrenic on a street corner shouting at passing cars (The video wouldn’t load on dKos, but you can see it here). He began…</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“Yesterday, last-ditch effort, Hail Mary, smear job, yup the congenital liar attached new documents to the articles of impeachment. Including so-called evidence from a former Giuliani contact. Oh by the way on conspiracy TV. The guy is facing federal charges from the Southern District of New York. You don’t really want to mess with those people.”</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Did you follow that? Apparently Hannity is upset that new incriminating evidence about Trump has come out. But he can’t rebut any of it, so he unloads a barrage of nasty adjectives.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"> He glosses over the fact that Parnas is working with Trump’s lawyer, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">but hones in on his having been indicted. And while Hannity is adamant that that’s a problem for Parnas, it doesn’t seem to be a problem for other Trump comrades who are under indictment or already convicted, including his campaign chairman Paul Manafort, his national security adviser Michael Flynn, his personal attorney Michael Cohen, and his fixer Roger Stone. Hannity continued…</span></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>“So [Parnas] goes right to state-run MSDNC conspiracy channel media.</b>&nbsp;Keep in mind when people like him, trying to stay out of jail, think about this, how many times have we heard from the liberals ‘oh you can’t waterboard, or use enhanced interrogation because people will say anything, they’ll lie to make it end.’ Well people trying to stay out of jail, in my humble opinion, they’ll say anything.”</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Now Hannity thinks that MSNBC is “state-run” media. You have to wonder what state Hannity thinks that it’s being run out of. It must be the “Deep State.” And it’s cute that Hannity is trying to connect an indicted defendant giving testimony to waterboarding. No one has tortured Parnas. He is simply doing what many defendants do when faced with prosecution. He’s turning state’s evidence. That’s a voluntary action to secure a lighter sentence. And it does not have the pitfalls of torture, where victims will indeed say anything to make it stop. A defendant providing testimony must tell the truth or any agreement made with prosecutors is null and void.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">However, Hannity’s description of defendants saying anything to stay out of jail actually fits Trump much better. After all, he is known to be a pathological liar anyway. And he doesn’t have any agreement with prosecutors to worry about voiding. He’s lying through his capped teeth to avoid prison. And he clearly doesn’t care what he says, or how ludicrous the lie, if he thinks it will either deflect from his guilt or help him to evade accountability. The whole lot of them are neck deep in criminal behavior. And if more disclosures like those Parnas is serving up come to pass, they are all going to be sharing a cell block.</font></div></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump’s right-wing Christian lawyer ordered lies that landed Trump’s former fixer in prison: MSNBC’s Donny Deutsch</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Image via MSNBC</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Written by Travis Gettys / Raw Story November 15, 2019</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">MSNBC’s Donny Deutsch warned President Donald Trump’s associates to ignore advice from the president’s attorneys, because they’ve already landed someone in prison.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The “Morning Joe” contributor revealed that Trump’s personal attorney Jay Sekulow, a religious right media figure, has already gotten former Trump Organization attorney Michael Cohen sent to prison to protect</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">the president.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I’m going to give them the number, it’s 1-800-Otisville, and they should all call Michael,” said Deutsch, a friend of Cohen’s. “None of these people are going to tell anything but the truth. By the way, the lie (Cohen) told was at the direction of Jay Sekulow.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“But Jay’s a Christian,” he deadpanned. “Wait — Jay’s a Christian, he told him to lie?”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Yep,” he said.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Scarborough told government officials such as EU ambassador Gordon Sondland to reconsider their dishonest defense of the president as he faces an impeachment inquiry.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“People are testifying because they know what the president did was corrupt, they know it was bribery, they knew it was arms for political dirt,” Scarborough said. “They know it is a crime, and they, like Sondland, don’t want to spend their time in jail like man for (Paul) Manafort or your friend Michael Cohen.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="" open="Open" sans="Sans" arial="Arial" helvetica="Helvetica" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">former deputy director at the Republican National Committee,&nbsp;</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;" open="Open" sans="Sans" arial="Arial" helvetica="Helvetica" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Drew Ryun</span><span style="" open="Open" sans="Sans" arial="Arial" helvetica="Helvetica" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">&nbsp;is the political director of the Madison Project. After his stint at the Republican National Committee, Drew served as Director of Government Affairs for Jay Sekulow and the American Center for Law and Justice. A twice published author, Drew launched&nbsp;Media Trackers&nbsp;in 2011, a non-profit, investigative news site.</span></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><h1 class="Title" style="margin: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.5px; line-height: 45px; padding: 0px 60px 0px 95px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">Trump’s Lawyers Sharing Space With Anti-‘Deep-State’ Group</font></h1><h2 class="Dek" style="margin: 10px 0px 20px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px 60px 0px 95px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The powerful conservative non-profit happens to be suing the administration over, among other matters, Uranium One.</font></h2><div class="ArticleBodybyline" style="display: flex; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-flow: row wrap; -webkit-box-align: center; align-items: center; margin: 15px 0px 15px 95px; padding: 0px;"><div class="ArticleBodyauthors" style="display: flex; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-flow: row wrap;"><div class="ArticleAuthor" style="display: flex; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-direction: row; -webkit-box-align: center; align-items: center;"><a class="ArticleAuthorname" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/author/betsy-woodruff" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in-out; letter-spacing: -0.5px; text-transform: uppercase; margin-right: 5px; line-height: 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="">BETSY WOODRUFF</font></a></div><div class="ArticleAuthor" style="display: flex; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-direction: row; -webkit-box-align: center; align-items: center;"><a class="ArticleAuthorname" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/author/lachlan-markay" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in-out; letter-spacing: -0.5px; text-transform: uppercase; margin-right: 5px; line-height: 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">LACHLAN MARKAY</font></a></div></div><h4 class="ArticleBodydate-time" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 20px; text-transform: uppercase; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="font-weight: normal;">03.22.18 2:44 PM ET</font></h4></div><div class="ArticleBodysponsored-logo-wraper" style="display: flex; -webkit-box-pack: start; justify-content: flex-start; margin: 0px 0px 10px 95px;"><article class="Body" style="padding: 0px 60px 0px 95px; position: relative;"><div class="Mobiledoc"><p style="line-height: 29.5px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">President Donald Trump’s legal team has done work out of the Capitol Hill offices of a conservative nonprofit group run by one of the president’s lawyers.</font></p><p style="line-height: 29.5px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Two sources familiar with the situation say attorneys representing the president in the probe into Russian election meddling have met at and worked out of the headquarters of the<b> American Center for Law and Justice, a 501(c)(3) legal advocacy nonprofit run by Jay Sekulow, a member of the president’s legal team.</b></font></p><p style="line-height: 29.5px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A spokesperson for the ACLJ did not dispute this report.</font></p><p style="line-height: 29.5px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The American Center for Law and Justice has maintained a Washington D.C. office for many years,” said Gene Kapp, a spokesperson for the organization. “The work done by the ACLJ is separate and distinct from the work performed by those who serve as Counsel to the President. Any non-ACLJ related work that occurs at the ACLJ offices is reimbursed in compliance with all applicable tax laws.”</font></p><p style="line-height: 29.5px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">From a strictly legal perspective, the arrangement appears above board, so long as ACLJ is charging market rates to rent the space, according to Brendan Fischer, the director of federal reform programs at the Campaign Legal Center, a nonprofit watchdog.</font></p><p style="line-height: 29.5px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The only way this would be an issue is if ACLJ was offering its services at less than fair market value, or using ACLJ resources without being compensated” by the president, the White House, or the Trump campaign, Fischer said in an email.</font></p><div class="TeadsWrapper"><div class="TeadsWrapperbefore"><aside class="SimpleAd SimpleAd--no-padding" id="gpt-ad-600269" data-google-query-id="CKOso_CEg9oCFYrcwAodJrsMaA" style="padding: 0px;"><div id="google_ads_iframe/68287174/iac.tdb-tdb.us.dw/politics/trumpland/content_0container" style="border: 0pt none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></div></aside></div><p style="line-height: 29.5px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">As Sekulow represents the president in matters related to Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation, ACLJ has also pursued litigation that, while not directly related to that investigation, aligns with efforts by the president and his allies to deflect from allegations that the Russian government worked to elect Trump in 2016.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p></div></div></article></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></font></font></font><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">trms</font></font></font></font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sekulow has long been a familiar name for those who understand the religious right movement, but the far-right attorney has a new public profile thanks to his latest position. Sekulow, who was the chief counsel for TV preacher Pat Robertson's legal group, now has&nbsp;<a href="http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trumps-legal-team-features-some-unexpected-members" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; text-decoration-line: none;">a leadership role</a>&nbsp;on Donald Trump's legal team in response to the Russia scandal.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">With increased visibility, however, comes increased scrutiny. In Sekulow's case, that's not necessarily good news.&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">The Guardian</em>&nbsp;had&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/27/trump-lawyer-jay-sekulow-donations" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; text-decoration-line: none;">this report</a>&nbsp;yesterday;</font></p><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; font-style: italic;" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Documents obtained by the Guardian show Sekulow [in June 2009] approved plans to push poor and jobless people to donate money to his Christian nonprofit, which since 2000 has steered more than $60 million to Sekulow, his family and their businesses.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Telemarketers for the nonprofit, Christian Advocates Serving Evangelism (Case), were instructed in contracts signed by Sekulow to urge people who pleaded poverty or said they were out of work to dig deep for a "sacrificial gift".</font></p></blockquote><p style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And while that sounds bad, it's not the end of the story. The same&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/27/trump-lawyer-jay-sekulow-donations" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; text-decoration-line: none;">report</a>&nbsp;added that the collected donations helped "pay Sekulow, his wife, his sons, his brother, his sister-in-law, his niece and nephew and their firms."</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And that's just one of the conservative lawyer's organizations. The&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">Washington Post</em>&nbsp;published&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/trump-attorney-jay-sekulows-family-has-been-paid-millions-from-charities-they-control/2017/06/27/6428d988-5852-11e7-ba90-f5875b7d1876_story.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; text-decoration-line: none;">a related report</a>&nbsp;today that said the American Center for Law and Justice also received millions from Sekulow's Christian Advocates Serving Evangelism. That money, in turn, provided generous salaries to Sekulow's brother and nephew -- on top of the salaries they received from CASE.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><a href="http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trump-lawyers-fundraising-efforts-generate-new-scrutiny#break" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">read more</font></a></p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">---</font></div><div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-full" style="clear: both; line-height: 28px; padding-top: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jay Sekulow, chief counsel for the&nbsp;<a href="http://aclj.org/" rel="nofollow" target="blank" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">American Center for Law and Justice</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>New York Times</em>&nbsp;best-selling author, says America is under attack like never before.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Each year, unelected government bureaucrats impose thousands of new laws on Americans -- all without a single vote from Congress.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sekulow says that the federal bureaucracy has become the fourth and largest branch of the government, and it's the only branch not in the U.S. Constitution.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Our federal bureaucracy violates the rights of Americans without accountability. It harasses adoptive parents, denies veterans quality healthcare, discriminates against conservatives and Christians for partisan purposes, and damages our economy with job-killing rules, according to Sekulow.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Americans are bullied by the very institutions established to protect their right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sekulow claims our nation's bureaucrats are on an undemocratic power trip. But he and the ACLJ have a plan to fight back.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In his latest book,&nbsp;<a href="http://shop.cbn.com/product.asp?sku=9781476795676" target="_blank" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><em>Undemocratic: Rogue, Reckless and Renegade: How the Government is Stealing Democracy One Agency at a Time</em></a>, Sekulow shows how we can resist illegal abuse, reform a broken system, and restore American democracy.</font></p></div></div></div><div class="clearfix field-name-social-media-body" style="zoom: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="news-cta" style="background: rgb(232, 239, 242); padding: 18px; border-radius: 4px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While you are here...</font></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">We'd like to ask for your help. At CBN News, we strive to bring you the most current, pertinent and reliable news possible. We are able to bring you this important news from a Christian perspective because of the help of friends like you who know how vital it is to have an alternative to the news you hear from major media outlets.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Would you help ensure that we can continue to provide this important service to you and our country by considering a special gift today? Or would you become a monthly partner so we know we can count on the resources we need to bring you the best news possible?</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Thanks for being a part of the dynamic future of CBN News, as well as helping The Christian Broadcasting Network share the love of Jesus with hurting people everywhere.</font></p></div></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</div><div>&nbsp;The 32-year-old Sekulow, who helms the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), will act as an emissary between Bush and a decidedly skeptical GOP base. In a statement provided to the Christian Broadcasting Network’s David Brody, Sekulow pronounced himself “excited to begin a conversation with conservatives about Governor Bush’s pro-life, pro-family, tax-cutting record in Florida and the ideas we need to put into action to give every American a chance to rise up.” But while Sekulow’s credibility in conservative circles will likely prove an asset for the Bush campaign, he has also been at the forefront of his organization’s work to keep homosexuality criminalized in Africa, opposed abortion even when a mother’s health is endangered, and espoused incendiary anti-Muslim views, a record that hardly conveys the “inclusive conservative” message his candidate professes to support.</div><div>
</div><div><b>A former operative for the presidential campaigns of George W. Bush and Mitt Romney,</b> Sekulow is now executive director at ACLJ, an organization founded by televangelist Pat Robertson to serve as a conservative counterweight to the American Civil Liberties Union. Sekulow’s father Jay, also a prominent social conservative, is ACLJ’s chief counsel. As father and son aided Romney’s second presidential bid in 2012, the pair came under scrutiny after <b>Mother Jones highlighted their international work to criminalize abortion and homosexuality — work that has expanded the ACLJ’s tentacles everywhere from Kenya and Zimbabwe to France and Putin’s Russia.</b></div><div>
</div><div>Jordan Sekulow has been particularly instrumental in ACLJ’s African campaigns. Under his tutelage, the organization established the East African Center for Law and Justice in 2009, as Kenya prepared to debate a new constitutional framework. Aimed at convincing Kenyan lawmakers “to take the Christian’s views into consideration as they draft legislation and policies,” the EACLJ lobbied to<b> ensure that gay sex remained illegal under the 2010 Kenyan constitution</b>. &nbsp;Although the draft constitution did not explicitly scrap the country’s colonial-era statute against consensual gay intercourse — violating the law risked a prison sentence of up to 14 years — the left-leaning Political Research Associates explained in 2012 that the EACLJ feared the new constitution would effectively jettison criminalization. The draft featured sweeping rhetoric opposing discrimination, and while LGBT people were not listed as a protected class, both the EACLJ and LGBT advocates interpreted the anti-discrimination clause to encompass the right to consensual gay sex.</div><div><b>
</b></div><div><b>Sekulow also railed against a provision of the constitution allowing abortions when a mother’s health is at risk;</b> he denounced such a regime as “abortion on demand.” The EACLJ, however, failed in its dual efforts to modify the constitution’s anti-discrimination language and to scuttle the limited right to an abortion.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">As Mother Jones documented, the ACLJ also sought to maintain the criminalization of homosexuality in Zimbabwe, a country ruled by the iron-fisted dictator Robert Mugabe since 1987</span>. Unlike the Kenyan campaign, this lobbying campaign paid off, with the leaders of Zimbabwe’s short-lived unity government agreeing that homosexuality should remain illegal.</div><div>
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</div><div>The unity government, established shortly after Mugabe’s fraud-tainted re-election in 2008, received enthusiastic support from Sekulow’s corner. In 2010, he traveled to the country’s capital, Harare, to meet with top officials in Mugabe’s thuggish ZANU-PF party, in addition to religious leaders and then-Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, Mugabe’s 2008 opponent. In a Facebook post published after his visit, Sekulow called on the U.S. to begin a diplomatic rapprochement with the Mugabe-led government, and urged an easing of sanctions against Zimbabwe, which the U.S. had imposed in response to Mugabe’s persecution of dissidents and other human rights abuses. Warning that Zimbabwe was at risk of becoming a predominantly Islamic nation, Sekulow stressed the importance of engaging Zimbabweans so as to ensure that theirs remained a “Christian country.”</div><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/foxs-seth-rich-conspiracy-has-collapsed-but-right-wing-outlets-keep-pushing-it/">http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/foxs-seth-rich-conspiracy-has-collapsed-but-right-wing-outlets-keep-pushing-it/</a></font></p><div class="mce-content-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><div class="layout-constrain--narrow" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 47.2222em; padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Earlier this week, a&nbsp;<b>private investigator&nbsp;</b>named Rod Wheeler—whose last big case was&nbsp;<a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2007/rod-wheeler-claims-o%E2%80%99reilly-factor-lesbian-gangs-are-raping-young-girls" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">promoting a</a><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/cq/2007/07/16/cq_3090.html?pagewanted=print" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">hoax</a>&nbsp;about a national underground network of lesbian gangs—<a href="http://dcist.com/2017/05/fox_5_continues_its_shameful_report.php" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">announced</a>&nbsp;that he had evidence that the late Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich, who was murdered last year in Washington, D.C., was in contact with WikiLeaks and transferred them over 40,000 DNC emails. That year WikiLeaks released hacked emails from DNC employees.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Fox’s local Washington, D.C. affiliate ran the story with an interview with Wheeler, despite the fact that Rich’s family had asked him not to speak with the media and rejected his findings as not credible.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Wheeler said that he&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/foxs-seth-rich-conspiracy-theory-falls-apart-investigator-admits-he-has-no-evidence/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">didn’t actually see any emails or even Rich’s computer</a>, but simply heard about this bombshell evidence from an anonymous federal investigator.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Then Wheeler admitted that he&nbsp;<a href="http://www.newsweek.com/seth-rich-dnc-staffer-wikileaks-leaked-emails-fbi-610383" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">never spoke</a>&nbsp;to the investigator.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>“I only got that [information] from the reporter at Fox News,</b>” Wheeler said in an&nbsp;<a href="http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/16/media/seth-rich-family-response-claims-of-wikileaks-contact/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">interview</a>&nbsp;with CNN.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The FBI similarly&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/dnc-staffer-s-murder-draws-fresh-conspiracy-theories-n760186" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">rejected</a>&nbsp;Wheeler’s claims, with one law enforcement official telling NBC News that Rich’s laptop “never contained any emails related to WikiLeaks.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He eventually “backtracked” in an&nbsp;<a href="http://www.fox5dc.com/news/255305734-story" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">interview</a>&nbsp;with Fox DC, stating that his previous statements were a “miscommunication.” (Rich’s family has&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/05/17/family-slain-dnc-staffer-demands-apology-fox-news-pushing-baseless-smears-about-their-son/216526" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">called on Fox</a>&nbsp;to&nbsp;<a href="http://dcist.com/2017/05/despite_thorough_debunking_fox_5_is.php" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">retract</a>&nbsp;the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonian.com/2017/05/18/fox-5-issues-clarification-but-does-not-retract-debunked-seth-rich-story/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">original story</a>).</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Even as the story&nbsp;<a href="http://www.npr.org/2017/05/17/528804792/unproved-claims-reemerge-around-dnc-staffer-s-death-here-s-what-you-should-know" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">collapsed</a>, conspiracy theorists ran with it—especially Fox News, where hosts like&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/foxs-seth-rich-conspiracy-theory-falls-apart-investigator-admits-he-has-no-evidence/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Sean Hannity</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2017/05/16/lou-dobbs-says-there-partisan-shroud-around-family-slain-dnc-staffer-seth-rich/216497" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Lou Dobbs</a>&nbsp;trumpeted Wheeler’s work as proof that Russia was not behind the DNC hack and that the Democratic Party is complicit in murder.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>As we’ve&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/foxs-seth-rich-conspiracy-theory-falls-apart-investigator-admits-he-has-no-evidence/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">noted</a>, Wheeler is both a vocal Trump supporter and a Fox News analyst and his “investigation” was paid for by a fellow Fox News pundit.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Days after Wheeler conceded that he had absolutely no evidence to back up his story, conservative outlets are still obsessed with it.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Last night,&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2017/05/18/jay-sekulow-joins-hannity-shamefully-push-seth-rich-murder-conspiracy-theory/216557" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Hannity hosted </a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2017/05/18/jay-sekulow-joins-hannity-shamefully-push-seth-rich-murder-conspiracy-theory/216557" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Jay Sekulow</a>&nbsp;of the American Center for Law and Justice,</b> and the two pushed the baseless claim that Rich was murdered over his purported links with WikiLeaks. Hannity never found the time to mention that Wheeler,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/foxs-seth-rich-conspiracy-theory-falls-apart-investigator-admits-he-has-no-evidence/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">who was his guest on Tuesday</a>, had retracted.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Alex Jones of InfoWars was similarly confident of the merits of Wheeler’s since-recanted account.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jones, the far-right broadcaster notorious for pushing dozens of bizarre conspiracy theories, initially suggested that Wheeler “<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/roger-stone-trump-must-order-fbi-to-investigate-seth-rich-murder/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">got in the laptop</a>” that Rich was using.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Yesterday Jones&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id2KJH7hHGs" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">interviewed</a>&nbsp;radio host Doug Hagmann, who also falsely claimed that Wheeler had evidence that Rich was in touch with WikiLeaks.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jones declared that “we have federal investigators and others saying they’ve seen the emails,” and Hagmann cited Wheeler’s hoax story as proof that Russia never hacked the DNC: “There was no hacking. It was merely a transfer of data from, in my professional opinion from what I’ve seen, the DNC staffer, Seth Rich, he took that information from the DNC and given it, via his connections, his contacts, to [Julian] Assange.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The FBI has and the D.C. police have the forensic evidence to tie WikiLeaks to Seth Rich,” Hagmann claimed.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At no point did either Jones or Hagmann mention that Wheeler retracted his remarks, but Hagmann did find the time to hail Wheeler as “a great investigator” and attack Wheeler’s critics as the “enemies of the truth.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Rod Wheeler did speak with a federal source who said, ‘I had eyes on the computer, I can verify as a matter of fact that this was connected to WikiLeaks,’” he said.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Actually, Wheeler told Newsweek that he&nbsp;<a href="http://www.newsweek.com/seth-rich-dnc-staffer-wikileaks-leaked-emails-fbi-610383" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">did not speak with the investigator</a>: “In a message to Newsweek on Tuesday, Wheeler said the Fox News report was misleading and that his information was secondhand from that ‘federal investigator.’ ‘I’ve never, ever seen Seth Rich’s computer, nor have I talked with the federal investigator,’ he wrote in a message.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">None of this, it seems, will make it on to InfoWars.</font></p></div></div><div class="layout-constrain--narrow" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 47.2222em; padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; border-top: 5px solid rgb(239, 243, 243); margin-bottom: 2em; padding-top: 1em;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">Tags:</strong>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/alex-jones/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Alex Jones</a><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/jay-sekulow/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Jay Sekulow</a><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/sean-hannity/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Sean Hannity</a></font></p></div></div><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></p><li class="full-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(239, 243, 243); list-style: none; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 1em 1em 0.5em;" helvetica="Helvetica" light="Light" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/fox-news-finally-retracts-their-debunked-seth-rich-story-will-sean-hannity/" title="Fox News Finally Retracted Their Debunked Seth Rich Story. Will Sean Hannity?" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;" /></font><p class="date" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em;" helvetica="Helvetica" light="Light" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-weight="font-weight" bold="bold" text-transform="text-transform" uppercase="uppercase" line-height="line-height"><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/fox-news-finally-retracts-their-debunked-seth-rich-story-will-sean-hannity/" title="Fox News Finally Retracted Their Debunked Seth Rich Story. Will Sean Hannity?" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></a><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/fox-news-finally-retracts-their-debunked-seth-rich-story-will-sean-hannity/" title="Fox News Finally Retracted Their Debunked Seth Rich Story. Will Sean Hannity?" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/fox-news-finally-retracts-their-debunked-seth-rich-story-will-sean-hannity/" title="Fox News Finally Retracted Their Debunked Seth Rich Story. Will Sean Hannity?" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/fox-news-finally-retracts-their-debunked-seth-rich-story-will-sean-hannity/" title="Fox News Finally Retracted Their Debunked Seth Rich Story. Will Sean Hannity?" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/fox-news-finally-retracts-their-debunked-seth-rich-story-will-sean-hannity/" title="Fox News Finally Retracted Their Debunked Seth Rich Story. Will Sean Hannity?" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">MAY 23, 2017 3:19 PM</a></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox News Finally Retracted Their Debunked Seth Rich Story. Will Sean Hannity?</font></font></font></li><li class="full-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(239, 243, 243); list-style: none; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 1em 1em 0.5em;" helvetica="Helvetica" light="Light" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/foxs-seth-rich-conspiracy-has-collapsed-but-right-wing-outlets-keep-pushing-it/" title="Fox’s Seth Rich Conspiracy Has Collapsed, But Right-Wing Pundits Keep Pushing It" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; 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</font></font></font></font></div><div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In just the week before, Jay Sekulow, chief counsel of the American Center for Law and Justice, had cheerfully predicted that Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers had "turned the corner" and would never withdraw her name from consideration.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Now, a few hours after Miers proved him dead wrong, Sekulow sounded as upbeat as ever. "She did the noble thing," Sekulow told the million-plus people listening to his daily radio show on Christian stations last Thursday, adding, confidentially, "I saw this coming." The next nominee, he predicted, would be a sitting judge just as worthy of support as Miers.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It was vintage Sekulow: gliding over contradictions, pleased to be a player in nomination politics, and more than ready to play again. In recent weeks, Sekulow, the leading Supreme Court advocate of the Christian right, emerged as the steadiest and most visible of a dwindling number of social conservatives willing to support Miers. Because of that steadfast loyalty, he is likely to play a key role in campaigning for whoever replaces her.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Jay has clearly succeeded in becoming closely linked to the Bush administration and has become a principal salesman for Bush nominees," says Elliot Mincberg, legal director of People For the American Way.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This is the public Jay Sekulow, the man who has become a familiar face on television in recent months and who has been a fixture in Washington legal circles as head of the ACLJ, an organization founded by religious broadcaster Pat Robertson in 1990.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>But there is another side to Jay Sekulow, one that, until now, has been obscured from the public. It is the Jay Sekulow who, 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.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That less-known side of Sekulow was revealed in several interviews with former associates of his and in hundreds of pages of court and tax documents reviewed by Legal Times. Critics say Sekulow's lifestyle is at odds with his role as the head of a charitable organization that solicits small donations for legal work in God's name.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For example, in 2001 one of Sekulow's nonprofit organizations paid a total of $2,374,833 to purchase two homes used primarily by Sekulow and his wife. The same nonprofit also subsidized a third home he uses in North Carolina.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At various times in recent years, Sekulow's wife, brother, sister-in-law, and two sons have been on the boards or payrolls of organizations under his control or have received generous payments as contractors. Sekulow's brother Gary is the chief financial officer of both nonprofit organizations that fund his activities, a fact that detractors say diminishes accountability for his spending.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to documents filed with the Internal Revenue Service, funds from his nonprofits have also been used to lease a private jet from companies under his family's control. And two years ago, Sekulow outsourced his own legal services from the ACLJ, shifting from a position with a publicly disclosed salary to that of a private contractor that requires no public disclosure. He acknowledged to Legal Times that his salary from that arrangement is "above $600,000" a year.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sekulow's financial dealings deeply trouble some of the people who have worked for him, leading several to speak with Legal Times during the past six months about their concerns -- before Sekulow assumed his high-profile role promoting President George W. Bush's Supreme Court nominees.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Some of us truly believed God told us to serve Jay," says one former employee, who requested anonymity out of fear of reprisal. "But not to help him live like Louis XIV. We are coming forward because we need to believe there is fairness in this world."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Another says: "Jay sends so many discordant signals. He talks about doing God's work for his donors, and then he flies off in his plane to play golf."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Still another told Legal Times, "The cause was so good and so valid, but at some point you can't sacrifice what is right for the sake of the cause."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sekulow shrugs off the criticism and makes no apologies. "I wouldn't pretend to tell you we don't pay our lawyers well," including himself, says Sekulow. "As a private lawyer, I could bill $750 an hour, but I don't." He does lease a jet, he says, and he does sometimes use it to reach the golf course -- but with donors or vendors, he insists. "We've been doing this for 20 years and never had a blip" of financial irregularity.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nothing in the relatively loose regulations that govern nonprofits prohibits family members from serving on boards, drawing salaries, or spending money. But critics say the extravagant spending burns up money that Sekulow solicits from donors for legal causes. Citing the high cost of litigating Supreme Court cases, Sekulow wrote in a 2003 fund-raising letter, "We are asking God to prompt every member of the ACLJ to get involved personally in this effort." He added later, "Please send a generous gift right away."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bruce Hopkins, a partner at Polsinelli Shalton Welte Suelthaus in Kansas City, Mo., and author of 11 books on nonprofit operations and governance, says that Sekulow is "certainly engaging in practices where higher scrutiny is warranted."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Charity watchdog Bennett Weiner agrees that the kind of family board involvement and transactions with family businesses that are indicated on the IRS Form 990s filed by Sekulow's nonprofits "would lead us to ask questions and seek more information."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Weiner is chief operating officer of the Better Business Bureau's Wise Giving Alliance, which publishes standards for nonprofits. The ACLJ has not responded to several requests from the alliance for information. Weiner stressed he could not comment specifically about the ACLJ.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability, created in 1979 to improve the public's trust of Christian nonprofits, also has set standards for its members requiring independent boards of directors made up of people "not related by blood or marriage to staff members." Sekulow's organizations are not among the council's more than 1,100 members.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A review of publicly available tax and court documents, as well as interviews with several former employees, paints a stark portrait of Sekulow as a hard-charging man who emerged from bankruptcy and allegations of securities fraud in the late 1980s to build a complex network of personal, business, and nonprofit entities. At times, those financial dealings have alienated employees and been criticized in court.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sekulow, 49, has always been an oddity on the evangelical landscape. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., to Jewish parents, Sekulow still describes himself as a "Messianic Jew," meaning he believes Jesus Christ is the Messiah. He says his Jewish faith never caused him trouble among Christian evangelicals.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">His family moved to Atlanta when he was in high school. Sekulow went to a Baptist college, now known as Mercer University, partly because it was near home. There, Sekulow met a student he later described as a "Jesus freak." The friend urged him to study the Bible, and over time, Sekulow questioned Jewish beliefs. "As I read, my suspicion that Jesus might really be the Messiah was confirmed," Sekulow wrote later.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sekulow stayed at Mercer for law school and, after a brief period as an attorney for the IRS, set up a private practice and real estate business in Atlanta with law school friend Stuart Roth, who is still a partner in some of his current dealings. Meanwhile, Sekulow's religious views solidified, and he joined Jews for Jesus, eventually becoming that organization's general counsel.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It was in that capacity that Sekulow argued his first case before the Supreme Court, a 1987 dispute involving the Los Angeles Board of Airport Commissioners, which tried to stop Jews for Jesus adherents from distributing leaflets at LAX. Sekulow said he was nervous when his name was called. "Me, a short Jewish guy from Brooklyn, New York, went before the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States," he wrote in an article for the Jews for Jesus Web site. "God had brought me through that trial." Sekulow won the case 9-0.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">At the time of his successful Supreme Court debut, Sekulow was also dealing with a trial of another sort. His private practice, which focused on creating tax shelters and financial deals for the renovation of historic buildings in Atlanta, collapsed when investors sued him for securities violations related to the renovation deals. He and his firm filed for bankruptcy protection in 1987, and more than a dozen creditors filed suit. A later story in the Atlanta Constitution said he left a trail of angry investors and employees. "God brought Jay to his knees then," a former employee told Legal Times.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But Sekulow bounced back up, in part by creating a new nonprofit, Christian Advocates Serving Evangelism, which still exists today and serves as an important conduit for funds that finance Sekulow's activities. "I almost feel like God raised me back from the dead," Sekulow told the Atlanta paper in 1991. "It was a spiritual rebirth."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>It was 1990 when Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson decided to create the ACLJ, and it was no accident that its acronym was one letter away from that of the American Civil Liberties Union. "Someone has got to stop the ACLU in court," said Robertson when he launched the organization.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Robertson continues as unpaid president of the ACLJ's board to this day and frequently invites Sekulow to appear on his "700 Club" show on the Christian Broadcasting Network.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sekulow became chief counsel of the ACLJ in 1991 but did not fold the Atlanta-based CASE into its operations, giving him an independent source of funds. Former employees say this was done, in part, to keep some of Sekulow's operations out of Robertson's view.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sekulow assumed full control of the ACLJ a few years later, when its executive director left. In a statement, Robertson said, "I meet regularly with Jay Sekulow to discuss the activities, programs, accomplishments, and general operations of the ACLJ and affiliated organizations, which includes CASE."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sekulow built the ACLJ into a formidable legal advocacy group that helped persuade the courts to give greater accommodation to religious practices and speech. His signature legal strategy has been to frame freedom of religion cases as free speech battles, often -- but not always -- with success. He took on cases nationwide, but nothing matched the exhilaration of arguing before the Supreme Court, which he has done a dozen times.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"That is what juices me up in the morning," he says.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After the 2000 presidential election, Sekulow began to work his way into conservative Washington's inner circle, forging ties with the White House and Republican Congress members.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Former Attorney General John Ashcroft is part of Sekulow's orbit. </b>In addition to his own lobbying work, Ashcroft teaches at Robertson's Regent University in Virginia Beach, Va., and maintains an office in the ACLJ's multimillion-dollar town house behind the Supreme Court. Ashcroft traveled with Sekulow to Europe in July for a conference at the European Center for Law and Justice, an ACLJ affiliate incorporated in France.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But Sekulow reached the pinnacle of D.C. influence earlier this year when he, along with former <b>White House Counsel C. Boyden Gray, one-time Federalist Society head Leonard Leo, and former Attorney General Edwin Meese III </b>-- soon dubbed the "four horsemen" -- participated in a weekly conference call with White House deputy public liaison Tim Goeglein and others to discuss judicial nominations and the so-called <b>nuclear option</b> to eliminate filibusters by Democratic senators of conservative judges.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a controversial Oct. 6 conference call with conservatives who had doubts about the Miers nomination, Sekulow boasted of the recent conversations he had had with Bush about the need to change the direction of the courts. Sekulow went on to state bluntly, "I'm involved in three cases at the Court this term. And believe me, I want Harriet Miers voting on these critical cases."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sekulow took on the assignment of shoring up support for Bush nominees among Christian groups, and he has done so in a variety of ways. From a studio in the basement of the center's D.C. town house, Sekulow has extolled nominees John Roberts Jr. and, more recently, Miers on his daily radio talk show, syndicated to 550 Christian radio stations with more than 1.5 million listeners nationwide. Sekulow boasts he can reach 940,000 followers by e-mail within three hours, and several times a year he sends out upward of 2 million pieces of regular mail. He also has a weekly television show airing on Christian networks.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Using those same tools, Sekulow is also an accomplished fund-raiser, according to the Form 990 that the ACLJ, like other nonprofits, files annually with the IRS. According to the ACLJ's 2003 return, the most recent available, it received $14.5 million in donations that year.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That isn't the entire story. When donors respond to solicitations and write out checks to the ACLJ, some of the money never makes it into ACLJ coffers but instead winds up with CASE, Sekulow's separate entity. Certain solicitations mention CASE in fine print as an entity "doing business as" the ACLJ. Sekulow confirms that checks resulting from these mailings are routed to CASE.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Internal critics say that the lesser-known CASE is where Sekulow reports most family-related transactions and other financial information that would be unflattering if revealed on the IRS forms filed by the more visible ACLJ.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The amounts involved are substantial. CASE reported receiving nearly $14 million in donations for 2003. Its board of directors has three members: Jay Sekulow; his wife, Pam; and his son Jordan, who sometimes appears on Sekulow's radio show. The ACLJ also has only a three-member board: Pat Robertson, who is unpaid; Jay Sekulow; and Thomas Monaghan, a Kentucky-based lawyer who was paid $224,995 in salary, benefits, and expenses by the ACLJ in 2003.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sekulow serves as chief counsel for both the ACLJ and CASE. His brother Gary serves as chief financial officer for both organizations. As one former employee puts it: "With Gary there, nobody is looking at what Jay is doing. Nobody." Jay Sekulow notes that his brother is a certified public accountant. Gary was paid $200,000 by CASE and $143,699 by the ACLJ in 2003. Gary Sekulow could not be reached for comment.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pam Sekulow is not listed on ACLJ tax forms. But CASE reported to the IRS that she was secretary-treasurer of that organization with an annual salary of $180,878. Former employees say that she currently has few operational duties, but Jay Sekulow, speaking for her, says she has significant responsibilities, including event planning.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sekulow says his son Jordan is paid by his company, Regency Productions, which produces the radio show. His other son, Logan, has a late-night comedy show that airs on Christian television networks and is sponsored by CASE.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And what about Sekulow's own salary? In an interview with Legal Times in June, Sekulow estimated his salary to be $275,000, but that appears to be an incomplete number. In 2002, for example, the ACLJ reported paying him $255,042, and CASE paid him $228,783, for a total of $483,825.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2003, CASE paid Sekulow $213,098 in salary, according to its IRS filing, along with an additional $154,643 in benefits and expenses. Curiously, though, the ACLJ's tax filings for 2003 report that Sekulow's salary from that group went to zero.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The disappearing-salary mystery is perhaps solved in another section of the ACLJ's 2003 disclosure. There, on a list of independent contractors that the ACLJ paid that year, a new entity shows up for the first time, the "Center for Law and Justice," without the word "American" at the beginning. This new entity received $733,389 from the ACLJ for "legal services." The ACLJ form offers no details about the center.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But CASE's tax form for 2003 is more revealing. CASE paid the Center for Law and Justice $625,599 that year, also for legal services. In a supplementary statement explaining transactions the organization has had with trustees and directors, CASE states that the Center for Law and Justice is "a law firm partially owned by the president and chief counsel" of CASE -- in other words, Jay Sekulow. Together, the ACLJ and CASE paid the center $1,358,988 in 2003.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Other sources state that the firm was formed by Sekulow and two others: longtime business partner Stuart Roth, listed that year as vice president for litigation at the ACLJ with a salary of $109,250, and Monaghan, a member of the ACLJ's board of directors. Sekulow's salary from the newly created law firm is no longer ascertainable from the Form 990, but late last week, Sekulow confirmed it was "above $600,000."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The bottom line: Sekulow performs legal services as before, but now he is paid as an outside contractor, blurring the exact compensation he personally receives from the groups. One former employee quotes Sekulow as saying, before the law firm was created, "We've got to get the salaries off the 990s." Sekulow denies making that statement.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If the figure for his salary is accurate, Sekulow would be the 13th-highest-paid executive of a charitable organization in the United States -- just below the United Way's CEO, Brian Gallagher -- according to a ranking by the American Institute of Philanthropy, another charity watchdog group.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hopkins, the nonprofit expert, says this relationship involving CASE, the ACLJ, and Sekulow's law firm could be viewed as an improper "private benefit" even if Sekulow is being paid at a reasonable rate. Under this doctrine, nonprofits are barred from conferring substantial benefits that "serve private interests" on individuals other than those the charitable organization is supposed to serve.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sekulow, asked about the law firm, says it was not created for deceptive purposes but rather to better protect the attorney-client relationship between lawyers doing work for the ACLJ and CASE and their clients. He also says the law firm has other clients unrelated to the ACLJ or CASE. Roth too says the goal of establishing the firm was to protect client confidentiality. Monaghan could not be reached for comment.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The 2003 filing by CASE reveals several other transactions between the nonprofit and Sekulow family-owned businesses. CASE leased an interest in the plane used by Sekulow from two companies that own the plane. One is a company owned by Kim Sekulow, Gary's wife. The company is not named on the form, but former employees say it is PGMS of Georgia -- a company that also is the agent for syndication of Sekulow's radio show. The other for-profit company that CASE leased the plane from in 2003 is Sekulow's for-profit corporation, Regency Productions.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Sekulow created Regency in 1995 to produce his radio show, and it has become a major source of income for him and his family.</b> The company figured in allegations of fraud made in the course of a bankruptcy proceeding filed in the Western District of Oklahoma last year. Sekulow had been a member of the board of directors of Amerivision Inc., a company that provided telephone services to Christian consumers under the name Lifeline Communications and donated a portion of revenue back to the Christian ministries to which the customers belong.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When the firm declared bankruptcy, it claimed in its filing that Sekulow and other directors had depleted company funds for personal gain. It alleged that while Sekulow was on the board of directors, Amerivision paid more than $5 million to Regency between 1998 and 2000. The money was payment, the filing said, for Sekulow promoting Lifeline on his radio show. Because Amerivision did not get sufficient value in return, the payments amounted to "fraudulent transfers," the company said.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Beyond that, also while Sekulow was on the board, Amerivision gave more than $3 million in charitable contributions to the ACLJ, CASE, and other ACLJ affiliates, according to the lawsuit. In reply, Sekulow acknowledged that Amerivision paid "agent commissions" to Regency and other money to Regency, CASE, and the ACLJ, but denied any wrongdoing.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sekulow says the charges were never proved, adding that he was vindicated because, in April of this year, bankruptcy Judge Niles Jackson approved a reorganization plan for the company submitted by a group that included Sekulow. The company was renamed Affinity 4 and placed under a new board of directors that includes Sekulow and T.D. Jakes, the popular Dallas minister and best-selling author who has also been a visible supporter of Bush in recent months.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As part of the ACLJ's plan to expand, five years ago, Sekulow decided that the Virginia Beach-based group needed a stronger D.C. presence. In 2001, CASE bought a town house at 201 Maryland Ave. N.E. The purchase price was $5 million.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Not only was the town house a stone's throw from the Supreme Court, but it also looked directly over the ACLU's Washington offices at the nearby Mott House. But there was one small problem: By the time the ACLJ renovated and opened its new headquarters, the ACLU had left the location for a building downtown.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Renovations on the Maryland Avenue building were extensive, totaling more than $1 million, according to CASE's 2002 return. One redecorated conference room featured a mural costing $41,000. But the ACLJ wasn't done. That same year it plunked down another $1.5 million to purchase a residence next door to its headquarters, at 119 2nd St. N.E. Sekulow and his family stay in the house when they are in Washington.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The D.C. town house is one of three residences used by Sekulow that were paid for or subsidized by CASE. Another is a home in Virginia Beach that was bought by CASE for $852,937 in 2001. The third home, in North Carolina, is described on CASE's IRS filings as a "retreat property." Sekulow says the houses are not for his family's exclusive use.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The North Carolina home is itself an interesting study in how Sekulow operates. CASE sold the home to Sekulow's wife, Pam, in 1997. But CASE loaned her the money to purchase it, according to CASE's IRS returns. She has not always made payments on the loan, and CASE's board, of which she is a member, has at times forgiven repayment -- an arrangement confirmed by Sekulow. The amount she does not repay is then reported as income to her -- $49,266 in 2003 -- on which she pays income tax. Sekulow says the loan has now been retired. The Sekulows also own a home in Atlanta.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Former employees of Sekulow allege that the multiple homes were just one part of an over-the-top lifestyle. They say it was not unusual for Sekulow to drop $800 for lavish meals at Morton's, a high-end steakhouse, and that Sekulow rented luxury suites at the Willard Inter-Continental Hotel in the days before his Supreme Court arguments. Along with the private jet came chauffeured cars and added security, including bodyguards.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But Sekulow says the tales of his extravagance are overstated. He says he only ate once at Morton's and that he stopped rooming at the Willard once his D.C. offices opened. "We do have a car and a driver," he says, but maintains this service was mainly used for court appearances.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the past several years a number of staff members have left the ACLJ and affiliated organizations, believing they had strayed from their mission and that continuing to work with Sekulow would violate their Christian ethics. Some were required to sign agreements that they would never disclose internal matters about the ACLJ.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 1998, Sekulow's high-flying ways brought him in close contact with Justice Scalia, who was scheduled to give an address at Regent University in Virginia Beach on the occasion of its 20th anniversary.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Sekulow offered Scalia the chance to travel from Washington to the event on a jet then owned by CASE. Was it appropriate to give a free ride to a Supreme Court justice before whom Sekulow and the ACLJ regularly argued?</b> Sekulow says the jet was leased to Regent University, the host of the event, for that trip as well as for other occasions-a fact he says was made clear to Scalia. Sekulow, however, declined to provide a copy of the lease document.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Asked about the ride, Scalia said through a spokeswoman that "I honestly cannot remember" the episode. Pat Robertson also said he could not recall the details but added that it is "common" for the university to share transportation resources with related organizations like the ACLJ and CASE.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It was yet another sign of Sekulow's expanding clout, but he shrugs it off as nothing exceptional or improper. "We had a very pleasant 32-minute flight. That's it."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><em style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;">Originially published in&nbsp;</em>Legal Times<em style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1;">.</em></font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==
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          </font></font></font><div class="breadcrumb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></font></font></font></div><div class="breadcrumb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">off bs</font></div><div class="breadcrumb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div class="breadcrumb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">J<span style="letter-spacing: 0.6px;">ay Sekulow is Chief Counsel of the <b>American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ)</b>, one of the most prestigious law firms in the country. He is an accomplished Supreme Court advocate, renowned expert on religious liberty, a number 1 New York Times-bestselling author, and a respected broadcaster.</span></font></div><p class="selectionShareable" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; letter-spacing: 0.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Jay Sekulow is an attorney with a passion for protecting religious liberty - freedom - democracy. For nearly a quarter of a century, he's been on the front lines - working to protect religious and constitutional freedoms in the courts, in Congress, and in the public arena.</font></p><p class="selectionShareable" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; letter-spacing: 0.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">At the Supreme Court of the United States, Jay Sekulow has argued 12 cases - including several landmark cases which have become part of the legal landscape in the area of religious liberty litigation. In the&nbsp;</span><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;">Mergens</i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;case, Jay Sekulow</span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> cleared the way for public school students to form Bible clubs and religious organizations on their school campuses. </b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In the&nbsp;</span><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;">Lamb's Chapel</i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;case, he</span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> defended the free speech rights of religious groups</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, ensuring that they be treated equally with respect to the use of public facilities. In</span><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><i style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">McConnell v. FEC</i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, Jay Sekulow ensured that the constitutional rights of young people remain protected with a unanimous decision by the high court </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">guaranteeing that minors can participate in political campaigns</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Most recently, in&nbsp;</span><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;">Pleasant Grove City v. Summum</i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, he secured a unanimous First Amendment decision clearing the way for governments to accept permanent monuments of their choosing - including <b>Ten Commandments monuments -</b> in public parks.</span></font></p><p class="selectionShareable" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; letter-spacing: 0.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At the beginning, no one could have predicted that what began as a mission to protect religious liberty in this country would involve an international outreach. In a world where Christians face discrimination, violence, and even death for practicing their faith, it soon became clear that there was work to be done abroad. Jay Sekulow believes that religious liberty - religious freedom - is an international right - a global concern. He launched the European Centre for Law and Justice (ECLJ) - based in Strasbourg, France - the seat of the European Court of Human Rights. He serves as Chief Counsel of the ECLJ and has opened offices around the world in: France, Russia, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Pakistan and Israel.</font></p><p class="selectionShareable" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; letter-spacing: 0.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">With so much of our future tied to what happens in the Middle East, Jay Sekulow knew that establishing an office in Jerusalem was critical.</font></p><p class="selectionShareable" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; letter-spacing: 0.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">When Israel attempted to defend itself during a 2009 conflict in Gaza, the world community expressed outrage. Israel was falsely accused of committing war crimes. Jay Sekulow assembled an international legal team, which included former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft, and presented critical arguments protecting Israel's national security interests before the International Criminal Court at the Hague.</font></p><p class="selectionShareable" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; letter-spacing: 0.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Jay Sekulow is a true friend of Israel who has fought with us hand-in-hand in some of Israel’s most strategic, international battles," said Danny Ayalon, Deputy Foreign Minister, State of Israel, who also served as Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. "Jay was instrumentally-involved in projects that the President of Israel and the Prime Minister put on our national agenda."</font></p><p class="selectionShareable" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; letter-spacing: 0.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Whether it's fighting to protect religious liberty and freedom overseas, or right here at home, there's a tremendous track record of success that's not gone unnoticed.</font></p><p class="selectionShareable" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; letter-spacing: 0.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Townhall Magazine</i>&nbsp;named Jay Sekulow to its "Townhall of Fame" and recognized him as "one of the top lawyers for religious freedom in the United States." Jay Sekulow was named one of "The 90 Greatest Washington Lawyers of the Last 30 Years" by Legal Times and recognized for "fighting to expand liberties and protect civil rights."&nbsp;<i style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Chicago Tribune</i>&nbsp;concluded that the ACLJ has "led the way" in Christian legal advocacy.&nbsp;<i style="box-sizing: border-box;">TIME Magazine</i>&nbsp;named Jay Sekulow one of the "25 Most Influential <b>Evangelicals"</b> in America and called the ACLJ "a powerful counterweight" to the ACLU.&nbsp;<i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Business Week</i>&nbsp;said the ACLJ is "the leading advocacy group for religious freedom." Jay Sekulow's work on the issue of judicial nominees - including possible vacancies at the Supreme Court - has received extensive news coverage including a front-page story in&nbsp;<i style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Wall Street Journal</i>. In addition,&nbsp;<i style="box-sizing: border-box;">The National Law Journal</i>&nbsp;has twice named Jay Sekulow one of the "100 Most Influential Lawyers" in the United States. He is also among a distinguished group of attorneys known as "The Public Sector 45" named by&nbsp;<i style="box-sizing: border-box;">The American Lawyer</i>, which said the designation represents "45 young lawyers outside the private sector whose vision and commitment are changing lives."</font></p><p class="selectionShareable" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; letter-spacing: 0.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2014, Jay Sekulow was honored by the Greek Orthodox Order of St. Andrew the Apostle - Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate for his work in defending religious freedom and human rights. The Athenagoras Human Rights Award was presented to Jay Sekulow by His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios of America, Exarch of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, together with the Order of Saint Andrew's National Commander Dr. Anthony J. Limberakis who paid tribute to Jay Sekulow for dedicating his life "to fighting for fundamental human rights and religious freedom in the international juridical arena, from the Supreme Court of the United States to the European Court of Human Rights."</font></p><p class="selectionShareable" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; letter-spacing: 0.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">With more than one million members, the ACLJ is a powerful grassroots organization. Whether it's protecting the display of the Ten Commandments or the National Motto, Jay Sekulow is at the forefront - advising key decision makers in Washington, D.C. concerning the constitutionality of legislation - representing Members of Congress on amicus briefs at the Supreme Court - and encouraging the passage of laws that are constitutionally-sound.</font></p><p class="selectionShareable" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; letter-spacing: 0.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">To get the message out, Jay Sekulow has developed a comprehensive media strategy to expand the reach of the ACLJ - a daily radio broadcast tackles the tough issues that matter most, a weekly television show highlighting key decision-makers, a user-friendly website which provides updated information, and engaging and debating the issues in the public arena.</font></p><p class="selectionShareable" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; letter-spacing: 0.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jay Sekulow brings insight and education to listeners daily with his national call-in radio program,&nbsp;<i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Jay Sekulow Live!</i>, which is broadcast on more than 850 radio stations, SiriusXM satellite radio, and streamed live on the ACLJ website. Jay Sekulow also hosts a weekly television program, ACLJ This Week, which is broadcast on a number of networks nationwide including the Trinity Broadcasting Network, Daystar and Sky Angel. He is a popular guest on nationally televised news programs such as FOX News, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, and PBS. He posts regularly to his blog,&nbsp;<i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Faith & Justice</i>&nbsp;on Beliefnet, frequently contributes articles and commentary to national publications, and is often quoted in the nation's leading newspapers including&nbsp;<i style="box-sizing: border-box;">USA Today</i>,&nbsp;<i style="box-sizing: border-box;">New York Times</i>,&nbsp;<i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Los Angeles Times</i>,&nbsp;<i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Washington Post</i>, and&nbsp;<i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Washington Times</i>.</font></p><p class="selectionShareable" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; letter-spacing: 0.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Jay Sekulow is author of the #1 New York Times bestselling book,&nbsp;<i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Rise of ISIS</i>,&nbsp;<i style="box-sizing: border-box;">A Threat We Can't Ignore</i></b>, which provides a clear understanding of the rise of ISIS, their objectives, and the unlawful strategy used by terrorists. With the ACLJ “Law of War Team” - Jay Sekulow warns that if left undefeated, we will witness genocide of historic proportions at the hands of the Islamic State. At the same time, Rise of ISIS reveals first-hand stories of bravery and triumph underscoring the fact that there is hope - even in the face of ongoing attacks.</font></p><p class="selectionShareable" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; letter-spacing: 0.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jay Sekulow has additionally served as a faculty member for the Office of Legal Education at the United States Department of Justice. As a member of the faculty, he instructed Assistant United States Attorneys and investigators in the First Amendment issues associated with prosecution of obscenity.</font></p><p class="selectionShareable" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; letter-spacing: 0.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">With an ongoing commitment to education, Jay Sekulow is dedicated to training the next generation of religious liberty experts. The ACLJ provides legal training for law students from around the globe, reaching out through its offices at Regent University in Virginia.</font></p><p class="selectionShareable" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; letter-spacing: 0.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Jay Sekulow received his Ph.D. from Regent University, </b>with a dissertation on American Legal History, is an honors graduate of Mercer Law School, where he served on the Mercer Law Review, and an honors graduate of Mercer University.</font></p><p class="selectionShareable" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; letter-spacing: 0.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He was appointed a Senior Fellow at Emory University Law School’s Center for the Study of Law and Religion. In the summer of 2013 and 2014, Sekulow was a Visiting Fellow and Member of the Summer Research Institute at Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford. He has lectured on Middle East Affairs and International Law and was a Visiting Research Scholar at Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford in the summer of 2015. He recently completed a course of study at Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Management with certification in Executive Leadership and Corporate Innovation. Vanderbilt’s Executive Development Institute designated Sekulow an Owen World Shaper in 2015.</font></p><p class="selectionShareable" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; letter-spacing: 0.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jay is the author of numerous publications and legal articles. Immediately following graduation from law school, he served in the U.S. Treasury Department in the Office of Chief Counsel for the Internal Revenue Service where he was responsible for litigation in the U.S. Tax Court.</font></p><p class="selectionShareable" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; letter-spacing: 0.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://aclj.org/writers/jay-sekulow" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: 0px 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Jay Sekulow's posts on aclj.org</font></a></p><div class="breadcrumb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font></div>
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      <p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin is one of the Republican senators

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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So far, Johnson has toed the party line and says that he supports

blocking any nominee to the Supreme Court for the remainder of Obama’s

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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As soon as President Obama announced his nomination of Garland, Johnson turned to the talking point <a href="http://www.pfaw.org/rww-in-focus/obstruction-lobby-what-outside-groups-working-block-new-supreme-court-justice-really-wa"> that the conservative Judicial Crisis Network has been promoting </a> since soon after Justice Antonin Scalia’s death left a vacant seat on the Supreme Court.</font></p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In just 8 months, the American people will decide direction of the country. Give them a voice on the direction of court. <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SCOTUSnominee?src=hash">#SCOTUSnominee</a></font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">

— Senator Ron Johnson (@SenRonJohnson) <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/SenRonJohnson/status/710190427639562241">March 16, 2016</a></font></blockquote>

<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Johnson’s appeal to let the American people “decide” and give them a

“voice” by discounting President Obama’s entire last year in office,

comes <a target="_blank" href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/judicial-crisis-networks-incredibly-dishonest-pro-obstruction-ad">straight out of the messaging</a> that JCN started hammering in early ads urging obstruction. In JCN’s first ad, a narrator says:</font></p>

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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It’s ‘We the People.’ Sometimes the politicians forget that. The

Supreme Court has a vacancy and your vote in November is your only

voice. Sen. Chuck Grassley agrees: the American people should decide.

This isn’t about Republicans or Democrats. <strong>It’s about your voice. </strong>You choose the next president, the next president chooses the next justice. Call Sen. Chuck Grassley. <strong>Thank him for letting the people decide.</strong></font></p>

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pick the next Supreme Court justice when they reelected President Obama

for a second four-year term in 2012.</font>

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yesterday on an event in Wisconsin at which Johnson attempted to

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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Yeah, I am hearing the drumbeat, ‘Do your job! Do your job!’ ” Mr.

Johnson said, invoking the Democrats’ battle cry in their quest to get

Judge Garland a hearing. “We’re doing our job,” Mr. Johnson declared, to

shouts of “yes.”</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Our job as a coequal branch in the nomination process is advise and consent,” he said. “Well, <a target="_blank" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/o/barack_obama/index.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More articles about Barack Obama"> President Obama </a>

— surprise — didn’t heed our advice. So now we are doing the second

part of that advice and consent: We’re withholding our consent.

Completely appropriate.”</font></p>

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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This is a talking point that Jay Sekulow of the American Center for

Law and Justice, a longtime right-wing player in judicial fights, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jay-sekulow-advice-and-consent-means-telling-obama-dont-put-nominee">pioneered</a>

very soon after the death of Justice Scalia, when he told televangelist

Pat Robertson, “The Senate has a role in this, the Constitution says

‘advice and consent.’ The advice here is, ‘Don’t put up a nominee when

you’re only going to be the president, you’re a lame duck and you’re

only going to be the president for 11 months.’”</font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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