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</font></div><div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>When the House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection subpoenaed <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Pat Cipollone,</span> Donald Trump’s White House counsel, in late June, Fox News host Laura Ingraham scoffed. In trying to force the testimony of her “close friend,” Ingraham <a href="https://twitter.com/MattGertz/status/1544703465104068609" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">told her viewers</a>, the “desperate” committee was attempting a “Hail Mary” that would ultimately produce nothing of interest.</b> </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>It didn’t turn out that way. The committee <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/07/12/1111123258/jan-6-committee-hearing-transcript" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">produced clips</a> from Cipollone’s eight-hour deposition during Tuesday’s meeting in which he described an Oval Office meeting where Trump contemplated a plan to have the Defense Department seize voting machines to substantiate his false claims that the 2020 presidential election had been stolen from him — revelations that one Fox legal commentator <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/fox-news-legal-analyst-says-222204335.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">described</a> as “breathtaking” and “very disturbing.” </b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But responding on her show that night, Ingraham mentioned Cipollone only to quip about a committee member mispronouncing his name. The Fox host presented the hearing as a “snoozefest” during which “we learned … basically nothing substantial that we didn't know 18 months ago.” She offered a series of snide comments about the committee’s members and witnesses while carefully hiding any of the hearing’s insights from her viewers</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[jan 6 snooze fest vid]</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>ingraham’s yawning rebuttal is in line with her right-wing network’s broader handling of Tuesday’s hearing</b>. Fox hosts have previously tried to <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/january-6-insurrection/tucker-carlsons-january-6-hearing-counterprogramming-was-foxs-attempt-self" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">counterprogram</a> the committee’s <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/january-6-select-committee-hearing-revelations-fox-news-didnt-want-its-viewers-seeing-live" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">doings</a>, <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/sean-hannity-launches-attack-january-6-hearing-witness-cassidy-hutchinson" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">poke holes</a> in its <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/january-6-insurrection/fox-anchor-downplays-bombshell-testimony-former-trump-aide-cassidy" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">witnesses</a>, defend its <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/tucker-carlson-jeff-clark-did-not-commit-any-crime-what-he-did-wrong-was-calling" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">targets</a>, and complain about its <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/january-6-insurrection/after-another-day-groundbreaking-january-6-committee-testimony-fox-just" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">processes</a>. On Tuesday night, the network largely responded with silence —<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Jesse Watters Primetime</span>, <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Tucker Carlson Tonight</span>, and <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Hannity</span> all completely ignored the hearing. On Wednesday morning, <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Fox & Friends</span>’ </span>coverage was limited to a single news brief.</font></p></div></div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Fox, by shielding its viewers from the information the committee details, is continuing its <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-news-ongoing-complicity-january-6-insurrection" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">complicity</a> in Trump’s effort to subvert the election and the resulting mob attack on the U.S. Capitol.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The December 18, 2020, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/12/us/politics/jan-6-trump-meeting-screaming.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">White House meeting</a> discussed during Tuesday’s hearing appears to be a key pivot point for Trump that opened the door for the violence of January 6. During the meeting — held four days after the Electoral College voted to officially make Joe Biden the president-elect — Trump contemplated having the Defense Department seize voting machines and examine them for evidence of fraud and appointing the pro-Trump conspiracy theorist Sidney Powell as a special counsel to investigate purported election crimes. </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Over six hours of debate before the president, marked by screaming and participants nearly coming to blows, Trump outside advisers Powell, Michael Flynn, and Patrick Byrne faced off with Cipollone and two other White House aides.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Cipollone, in clips from his testimony the committee played on Tuesday, said he was alarmed that Powell and her allies kept saying that there was evidence of widespread voter fraud that they would not produce, and <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/video/cipollone-seizing-voting-machines-terrible-175254049.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">described</a> the Defense Department plan as “a terrible idea for the country” for which Trump lacked legal authority.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump ultimately decided against going forward with the plan. But shortly after the meeting concluded, he sent a tweet <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/29/us/politics/trump-tweet-jan-6.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">summoning his supporters</a> to Washington, D.C. for a protest on January 6, when Congress would convene at the U.S. Capitol to approve the Electoral College vote.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While news outlets had previously reported on the meeting, the hearing provided new details produced by witnesses who served in Trump’s own White House who were testifying under oath.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The hearing provided a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/12/us/jan-6-panel-trump.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">plethora</a> of other <a href="https://www.axios.com/2022/07/12/jan-6-committee-trump-extremist-groups-capitol" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">revelations</a> as well, including:</b></font></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; clear: both; list-style: none; padding: 0px;"><li aria-level="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 3rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Key pro-Trump influencers and extremist elements recognized Trump’s tweet as a call to action and began planning for January 6 protests.</font></li><li aria-level="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 3rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Two days after Trump sent the tweet, 10 Republican members of Congress met with Trump to discuss Trump lawyer John Eastman’s plot to have Vice President Mike Pence overturn the election results during the January 6 joint session of Congress.</font></li><li aria-level="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 3rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Documents <a href="https://www.thebulwark.com/proof-trump-planned-the-mobs-march-to-the-capitol/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">produced by the committee</a> show Trump had planned to encourage supporters rallying on January 6 to march on the U.S. Capitol, and that insurrectionist leaders were aware of that plan beforehand.</font></li><li aria-level="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 3rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump spoke to his former White House adviser Steve Bannon twice on January 5. Minutes after the first call, Bannon <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/tv/bannon-declared-on-jan-5-all-hell-will-break-loose-tomorrow-after-speaking-to-trump-twice-we-are-at-the-point-of-attack/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">told</a> his podcast listeners, “All hell is going to break loose tomorrow,” adding: “It’s all converging. And now we’re on, as they say, the point of attack. Right. The point of attack tomorrow.”</font></li><li aria-level="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 3rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After Trump spoke with Pence on January 6 and Pence told him he would not aid the plot to overturn the election, Trump ordered his speechwriters to reinsert lines attacking his own vice president in the speech he planned to give to protestors later that day.</font></li></ul><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Maybe Ingraham, as a close friend of Cipollone and the person who <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/trump-lawyer-pat-cipollone-was-a-camera-shy-washington-everyman--until-impeachment-made-him-a-star/2020/01/30/97e00354-3ece-11ea-8872-5df698785a4e_story.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">reportedly introduced him</a> to Trump in the first place,</b> actually has known all of this for 18 months. But it’s certainly not information Fox regularly provides to its viewers. And that’s par for the course for Ingraham and her colleagues.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While Cipollone says he was confronting Trump’s conspiracy theorists about their lack of evidence of widespread voter fraud, Ingraham and her fellow Fox hosts were <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/12/15/laura-ingrahams-defense/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">promoting</a> Trump’s stolen election lies. When rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, Ingraham texted White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and urged him to get Trump to make them stop — but on her Fox show, she suggested antifa was behind the violence. And now she and her fellow Fox hosts are alternately ignoring and attacking the committee’s findings.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>It’s difficult to escape the conclusion that Fox is covering up revelations of Trump’s coup attempt because they regret that it failed and want to ensure future such efforts succeed.</b></font></p></div></div></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/12/trump-white-house-2649585320/">https://www.alternet.org/2020/12/trump-white-house-2649585320/</a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div>Alex Henderson December 21, 2020</div><div> </div><div>President Donald Trump can't stand rejection, and his campaign has had a lot of it since the 2020 presidential election — from judge after judge dismissing his legal team's election lawsuits to the Electoral College certifying President-elect Joe Biden's victory. Following all that rejection, journalist Charlotte Klein stresses in an article published by Vanity Fair on December 20, Trump and his supporters are resorting to increasingly extreme ideas in the hope of preventing Biden from being inaugurated less than a month from now.</div><div>
</div><div>"Having effectively exhausted his legal options — at least 86 judges, including dozens appointed by Republicans, have shut down the president's unprecedented attempt to overturn his defeat through the courts — Donald Trump is apparently now entertaining even more anti-democratic paths to preserving his power," Klein explains. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"During a White House meeting on Friday, nearly a week after the Electoral College certified Joe Biden's victory, Trump reportedly discussed invoking martial law to overturn his losing election result — a strategy one of the meeting's attendees, former national security adviser and recent pardon recipient Michael Flynn, had recently proposed on cable television."</span></div><div>
</div><div>According to New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Zolan Kanno-Youngs, far-right Republican attorney <b>Sidney Powell was also present in the White House during that Friday, December 18 meeting with the president — who floated the idea of choosing her as a special counsel to oversee an investigation of voter fraud.</b> Powell, in her lawsuits, has been alleging that Trump was the victim of widespread voter fraud during the election but has offered no proof of it.</div><div>
</div><div><b>Others who were present during that meeting included attorney Rudy Giuliani, White House Counsel Pat Cipollone and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows.</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Klein writes, "As others in the room pointed out Powell's failure thus far to support her fraud claims with verifiable evidence, (Powell) 'accused other Trump advisers of being quitters,' according to the Times. <b>Another reported an idea weighed during Friday's meeting was an executive order to seize voting machines to examine them for alleged fraud, after Giuliani separately asked the Department of Homeland Security to do so earlier in the week — apparently to no avail."</b></span></div><div>
</div><div><b>Flynn isn't the only Trump supporter who has been urging Trump to declare martial law. Far-right Georgia-based attorney Lin Wood, who has been working closely with Powell on election-related lawsuits, has also made that frightening recommendation:</b></div><div>
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</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Haberman and Axios' Jonathan Swan have both posted tweets noting how worried some people in Trump's circle have been about the increasingly extreme ideas they are hearing:</span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Klein points out that "concern about the president's increasingly desperate quest to remain in power has intensified among those in Trump's circle," noting that a senior administration official, quoted anonymously, told Axios, "People who are concerned and nervous aren't the weak-kneed bureaucrats that we loathe. These are people who have endured arguably more insanity and mayhem than any administration officials in history."</span></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">attorney General Bill Barr will be honored for his “Christlike behavior” at Wednesday’s National Catholic Prayer Breakfast, according to Roman Catholic Sister, author, and anti-death penalty activist Sister Helen Prejean.</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"sister Helen Prejean</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@helenprejean</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The National Catholic Prayer Breakfast will present an award to Attorney General Barr for “Christlike behavior” tomorrow morning. A.G. Barr has ordered the executions of six men with at least one more on the calendar. What is “Christlike” about using discretionary power to kill?"</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The National Catholic Prayer Breakfast says Barr will be presented with its Christifideles Laici Award during today’s 16th annual prayer event.</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“In Honor and Gratitude for Fidelity to the Church, Exemplary Selfless and Steadfast Service in the Lord’s Vineyard,” are the words inscribed on the award.</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The event is being sponsored by several groups, including Alliance Defending Freedom, which appears on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s list of anti-LGBTQ hate groups.</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">President Donald Trump is expected to address the group today during its virtual ceremony.</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">Among the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast’s founders are<b style=""> Pat Cipollone</b>, President Trump’s White House Counsel; former Republican<b style=""> Senator Rick Santorum</b>; and Joseph Cella, President Trump’s Ambassador to Fiji, and a former Trump transition team member who co-founded the right wing activist group Catholic Vote.</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Another founder of the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast is Austin Ruse, the president of the anti-LGBTQ hate group Center for Family and Human Rights (C-FAM).</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Perhaps the most notable founder of the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast is the group’s president, conservative judicial activist Leonard Leo.</b></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Leo also serves as co-chairman of the Federalist Society, the far right group responsible for promoting the illegitimate belief that the U.S. Constitution should be interpreted by judges according to how the nation’s founders thought.</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">President Trump, for the first time in history, has effectively farmed out the approval process for federal court judges and even Supreme Court justices he nominates, to the Federalist Society.</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The award to Barr is being condemned by notable Catholics, including Sister Prejean, and Father James Martin, a Jesuit priest and editor-at-large at America magazine.</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">religion
and politics always get mixed up in strange ways. Pick a society and a
century, and you will find something that makes you scratch your head.</font>
<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Still, one of the most remarkable oddities of our time is that the
political party led by someone whose career is one continuous form of
self-promotion has been embraced by many people who claim to believe
that he who said "blessed are the meek" is the savior of the world. And
that oddity is on full display among the president's impeachment legal
team, which is led by lawyers with really distinctive religious
profiles.</font></p>
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<p><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The lead counsel is Pat Cipollone, who is White House counsel and one of the most prominent conservative Catholics in the
administration. According to Laura Ingraham, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/washington-lawyer-pat-cipollone-emerging-as-trumps-pick-for-white-house-counsel-person-familiar-with-decision-says/2018/10/13/f3d54d3a-cf18-11e8-a360-85875bac0b1f_story.html" target="_blank">he is responsible for her conversion to Catholicism</a>,
which is one reason not to like him. Ingraham has become the most
hateful of the Fox News primetime hosts, and that is saying something.</font></b>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He <a href="https://heavy.com/news/2018/10/pat-cipollone" target="_blank">co-founded the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast</a>,
which is really the "conservative Catholic prayer breakfast." I
remember Cardinal Raymond Burke celebrated Mass for them one year: I
remember it vividly because he did not use the cathedra. Later I was
told he refused to ask then-Washington Cardinal Donald Wuerl for the
privilege.</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Cipollone also served as <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-team-factbox/the-members-of-trumps-impeachment-defense-team-idUSKBN1ZG27F" target="_blank">general counsel to the Knights of Columbus</a>.
He was on the board of the Catholic Information Center, an Opus Dei-run
hotbed of conservative Catholicism located just blocks from the White
House.</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It will surprise no one that he has been involved with the Federalist
Society, which is an incubator for Republican legal geniuses and a
network largely constructed by fellow Catholic <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/investigations/leonard-leo-federalists-society-courts" target="_blank">Leonard Leo</a>.
Whenever Donald Trump leaves office, his most lasting legacy may be the
large number of arch-conservative judges now on the federal bench.</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Cipollone may be a fine Catholic but, alas, he had some trouble with
the Eighth Commandment, as former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Missouri) <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/trump-s-lawyer-just-stood-in-front-of-the-chief-justice-of-the-supreme-court-and-lied-77227077906" target="_blank">pointed out</a>:
"A lawyer does not stand in front of the Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court and lie." Cipollone had said House Republicans were not permitted
in the Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, a room in the U.S.
Capitol used to discuss classified information. The Republicans staged a
protest outside the room for Fox News, but the GOP members of the
Intelligence Committee were permitted in the room and participated in
the depositions.</font>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Former chair of the Republican National Committee, and devout
Catholic, Michael Steele, said Cipollone and fellow attorney Jay Sekulow
"<a href="https://www.rawstory.com/2020/01/ex-justice-department-lawyer-dismantles-trump-teams-claim-democrats-cant-call-witnesses-because-its-too-late/" target="_blank">basically looked like Laurel and Hardy</a>."</font></span></p><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
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</span><p><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sekulow is well known from his many appearances on Fox News, but he is even more of a rockstar in evangelical circles. Born
Jewish, he converted to Messianic Judaism and <a href="https://catholicmoraltheology.com/statement-by-ethicists-in-the-wake-of-the-january-3rd-and-8th-military-actions-between-the-united-states-and-iran/" target="_blank">has been called</a>
"a crusader for religious expression and a celebrity on the Christian
right." He earned a doctorate from Regent University, the evangelical
school founded by Pat Robertson. Many of his most high-profile cases
have involved defending religious groups and individuals in cases before
the Supreme Court.</font></span>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Kenneth-W-Starr" target="_blank">Ken Starr</a></b>
is best known for his stint as Independent Counsel in the Whitewater
investigation that led to the impeachment of Bill Clinton. But his
evangelical credentials are top of the line as well. The son of a Church
of Christ minister, Starr began college at a small evangelical school
in Arkansas, Harding University. He transferred to George Washington
University in Washington where he got his bachelor's degree. He got a
master's at Brown University, and I can't imagine him on that campus,
which is decidedly hippyish. His law degree is from Duke University.</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After he finished up as Independent Counsel, he became dean of the
law school at Pepperdine University, the Christian school in Malibu, and
then went on to Baylor University, the Baptist answer to University of
Notre Dame.</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Cipollone's assistant White House Counsel, Patrick Philbin, is one of
the president's lawyers in the impeachment hearings<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">.</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> In December 2001,
he <a href="https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB127/01.12.28.pdf" target="_blank">offered a memo</a>
as Deputy Assistant Attorney General that the federal courts lacked any
jurisdiction over the detainees at Guantanamo, permitting them to be
tried before military tribunals or not at all. He partially redeemed
himself by supporting James Comey when they thwarted an effort to get
John Ashcroft to intervene from his hospital bed to authorize
warrantless wiretaps. Vice President Dick Cheney <a href="https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10801604" target="_blank">reportedly blocked Philbin for a promotion</a>
as a consequence of his support for Comey. I could not find anything on
his religious affiliation.</span> Nor could I find anything about the
religious affiliation of the other lawyers on the president's team.</font></p>
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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Of course, the most prominent Catholic in the impeachmentproceedings is the Chief Justice of the United States. Some have hoped
that he will rise to the occasion, rule in favor of hearing from
witnesses, treat this trial like a typical trial, and turn himself into a
typical trial judge. He won't, and I direct readers to Ruth Marcus'
highly intelligent <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/john-roberts-wont-save-the-country-from-trump/2020/01/14/9bb870aa-36fa-11ea-9541-9107303481a4_story.html" target="blank">look at John Roberts</a>....</font></p></div></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">12/19</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><div><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">no lnx doc</font></font></font></font></div><div>Trump Impeachment Trial Turns Spotlight On White House Lawyer Cipollone</div><div>December 23, 2019</div><div>Heard on All Things Considered</div><div>
</div><div>FRANCO ORDOÑEZ</div><div>
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</div><div>White House counsel Pat Cipollone typically works behind the scenes. That's about to change when he takes a central role in President Trump's Senate impeachment trial.</div><div>
</div><div>President Trump has often surrounded himself with lawyers whom he sees as being good on television. But Pat Cipollone, the attorney who will play a leading role in Trump's Senate impeachment trial defense, is better known for working behind the scenes.</div><div>
</div><div>Even as an architect of the White House's fight against impeachment, Cipollone has performed his most prominent work from behind his desk, writing strongly worded letters rebuffing congressional subpoenas and instructing other White House aides not to cooperate.</div><div>
</div><div>Trump has lauded him as "the strong, silent type." But that silence is expected to end with the Senate impeachment trial. Jay Sekulow, another one of Trump's attorneys in what he said would likely be a "multifaceted" legal team, said Cipollone is ready for the spotlight.</div><div>
</div><div>"He's a really great lawyer, but he also understands the political side of this — and especially an impeachment proceeding," Sekulow said in an interview. "You have dual issues: the legal issues and the political issues. And it's not every lawyer that gets both. And Pat clearly does."</div><div>
</div><div>Trump Impeachment Inquiry</div><div>The son of Italian immigrants, Cipollone grew up in the Bronx. He went to Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky and worked part time at a McDonald's.</div><div>
</div><div>He was valedictorian of his college class at Fordham University and then went to law school in Chicago on a full scholarship.</div><div>
</div><div>Melanie Sloan, a friend and law school classmate, said the <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">University of Chicago was where Cipollone became immersed in conservative legal thought.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"My friends tended to be in the Progressive Law Students Association and were on the liberal side of the spectrum, and Pat and the crowd he hung out with were on the more conservative side of the spectrum, including people who are often now shortlisted for the Supreme Court in the Trump administration," said Sloan.</span></div><div>
</div><div>Sloan, who is now senior adviser to the liberal watchdog group American Oversight, told NPR she thinks "incredibly highly" of Cipollone. "He is a very warm, friendly person who would go out of his way for anybody, and I have the highest regard for him, despite how strongly I disagree with the positions the White House is taking on impeachment."</div><div>
</div><div>Other former classmates have a different view. Nearly two dozen signed a letter stating that his position on impeachment "distorts the law and the Constitution."</div><div>
</div><div>"We are sorry to see how your letter to the congressional leadership flouts the traditions of rigor and intellectual honesty that we learned together," wrote the members of the class of 1991 at the University of Chicago Law School.</div><div>
</div><div>Trump Administration Says It Won't Comply With Impeachment Inquiry]</div><div>
</div><div><b>Cipollone was managing editor for the law review. He worked closely with Eugene Scalia, son of conservative icon Justice Antonin Scalia. Eugene Scalia is now Trump's labor secretary.</b></div><div>
</div><div>Other friends of Cipollone went on to become prominent judges and have been touted as future candidates for the Supreme Court, including Allison Eid and Thomas Lee, who is the brother of Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah. Cipollone clerked for federal Judge Danny Boggs, known for giving new hires a famously difficult trivia exam. "Pat is a very smart, very competent lawyer and a great guy," Boggs told NPR.</div><div>
</div><div>Boggs' 64-question test for Cipollone included questions like "How many chromosome pairs are there in a human genome?" and "Give the number and popular name of any Beethoven symphony."</div><div>
</div><div>"That is in and of itself a badge of distinction among lawyers," said Mike Lee. "It's well known that you can't clerk for — you can't even interview for — Judge Boggs without passing with a pretty high score."</div><div>
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</div><div>Lee told NPR that Cipollone's wide-ranging base of knowledge has served him well in his job as White House counsel.</div><div>
</div><div>His Catholic faith is another big influence in Cipollone's life and career.</div><div>
</div><div>"One of the many things I like about Pat is this: Faith is a big deal to him," said Bill Nettles, a former U.S. attorney for South Carolina in the Obama administration, who has worked with Cipollone.</div><div>
</div><div>"But I live in a part of the world where people routinely wear it on their sleeve. And Pat is not like that. ... He doesn't use it as a vehicle to judge other people," Nettles told NPR.</div><div>
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</div><div>White House counsel Pat Cipollone (center) stands with acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney (left) and spokesman Hogan Gidley at an event this year.]</div><div>
</div><div>Cipollone, 53, has 10 children. He is among a group of elite conservative Catholics who serve as close confidants to Trump — including Attorney General William Barr and Leonard Leo of the Federalist Society, who has helped Trump pick judges, including for the Supreme Court.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Cipollone, Barr and Leo have served on the board of directors of the Catholic Information Center, an organization for powerful Washington Catholics. The center is affiliated with the conservative Opus Dei movement.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">John Allen, a veteran Vatican reporter and author of the book Opus Dei: An Objective Look Behind the Myths and Reality of the Most Controversial Force in the Catholic Church, called the Catholic Information Center a premier place for conservative Catholic movers and shakers in D.C.</span></div><div>
</div><div>"Cipollone is part of this broader sort of spectrum of conservative Catholic thought and activism that, in some way, is dedicated to the idea of trying to translate the kind of conservative reading of the Catholic Church's social agenda," Allen said in an interview.</div><div>
</div><div>The White House declined to make Cipollone available for an interview.</div><div>
</div><div>As Investigations Ramp Up, Trump Has Expanded White House Counsel's Office]</div><div>
</div><div>Before joining the administration, Cipollone was a partner at two prestigious law firms with a wide range of clients.</div><div>
</div><div>One very high-profile case was when his firm represented the woman known as "Jackie" who was featured in a 2014 article in Rolling Stone magazine. The article, about a gang rape at the University of Virginia, was later retracted and became the subject of lawsuits. But even then, Cipollone worked behind the scenes helping supervise the lawyers at his firm leading Jackie's defense.</div><div>
</div><div>Cipollone also worked a stint in the public sector. Early in his career, he joined the Justice Department working for Attorney General William Barr during George H.W. Bush's administration.</div><div>
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</div><div><b>Like Barr, Cipollone has argued that the president wields broad executive powers. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has described Cipollone's arguments as outrageous.</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"That letter that came from the White House was a joke, beneath the dignity of the presidency of the United States, in defiance of our Constitution. Shame on them," Pelosi said this year.</span></div><div>
</div><div>Critics say Cipollone is twisting the law to serve the president's benefit. Kimberly Wehle was formerly an assistant U.S. attorney and associate independent counsel in the Whitewater investigation led by special prosecutor Ken Starr. She said impeachment can't be unconstitutional when several provisions in the Constitution say otherwise.</div><div>
</div><div>"He's serving the president at the expense of the Constitution, at the expense of his true client, the American people, because he's operating to create a mega-presidency that has more power than the other two branches," she said. "And that's dangerous."</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker and an informal adviser to Trump, pushed back against that criticism and said Cipollone has been a stabilizing force in Trump's White House.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"You're in a fight over executive power," said Gingrich, who has also worked with Cipollone. "And I think in that sense that the Trump administration, across the board, sees itself as an active force for transformation."</span></div><div>
</div><div>Greta Pittenger, Will Chase, Barclay Walsh and Sarah Knight contributed to this report.</div><div><div>=</div><div><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/01/bill-barr-warrior-for-theocracy-why-didnt-we-know-about-this/">https://www.alternet.org/2020/01/bill-barr-warrior-for-theocracy-why-didnt-we-know-about-this/</a></div><div>
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</div><div>Bill Barr, warrior for theocracy: Why didn’t we know about this?</div><div>
</div><div>Written by Heather<b> Digby</b> Parton / Salon January 3, 2020 see 12/11</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">It has long been an article of faith (no pun intended) among some on the left that the culture war was simply a cynical tool of the conservative movement to fool the rubes into voting against their economic interests. In this reading, right-wing leaders had no intention of ever following through on culture-war issues. They would string the voters along forever, promising to deliver on abortion or gay rights or guns but never really getting the job done, the assumption being that they could keep the conservative base’s intensity at full throttle if those voters believed they were on the cusp of getting their agenda passed. Meanwhile, as the marks were distracted by endless culture-war skirmishes, the big money conservatives would pass laws that benefited themselves and harmed their own voters.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">As it happens, it did indeed go down that way. The conservative movement benefactors made out like bandits while Republican voters got screwed economically.<b> But the notion that the rich men in charge would never have to deliver on their culture-war promises was always wrong. Eventually, they would have to pay the piper.</b></span></div><div>
</div><div>Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell signaled that they were ready when he withheld the Supreme Court nomination of Merrick Garland during Barack Obama’s last year and then confirmed the Federalist Society’s darling, true blue social conservative Neil Gorsuch, as soon as Donald Trump took office. Evangelical leaders rushed to Brett Kavanaugh’s defense when he was under fire for his decadent youthful behavior and was accused of sexual assault during the confirmation hearings because they had been assured he would hew to the party line.<b> Kavanaugh’s threats to take revenge on all who opposed him probably reassured the religious right that he would vote the right way on the cases they care about.</b></div><div>
</div><div>McConnell’s Job No. 1 was to get a Supreme Court majority that would protect the interests of the wealthy and ensure the government didn’t burden business with inconvenient regulations. But he also made sure he got justices who would give the social conservatives what they had been demanding. The lower courts are now packed with the most far-right extremists he could find.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">This week 38 U.S. senators and 168 House members filed an amicus brief in an abortion case the Supreme Court is hearing, urging it to “reconsider” Roe v. Wade as well as Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which barred states from placing an undue burden on access to abortions. They are ready to reward the religious right for their years of loyalty. If the Supreme Court overturns Roe, I have a feeling any cracks in the Republican coalition will miraculously mend right up.</span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">As it happens, some very important people in legal circles are true believers themselves. The man most responsible for putting Gorsuch and Kavanaugh on the court as well as more than 100 lower court judges, is the Federalist Society’s Leonard Leo. He is a member of the ultra-conservative Catholic organization Opus Dei and has served on the board of its affiliate, the Catholic Information Center, whose goal is to influence and convert members of the political elite. (Among the converts are Larry Kudlow, Trump’s economic adviser, and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich.)</span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Leo is not the only one. White House counsel Pat Cipollone is also a member</span>, as is the attorney general of the United States, William Barr. Just as the political and media establishment conveniently overlooked Barr’s long-term commitment to the “unitary executive theory” in its most extreme form, they didn’t seem to know that he was even more committed to far-right social conservatism. It wasn’t until Barr gave a speech at Notre Dame last October that everyone finally understood to what degree he is a religious crusader.</div><div>
</div><div>In that speech he said many things, blaming “secularists” for causing immense pain and suffering and “moral chaos.” He suggested that “the law is being used as a battering ram to break down traditional moral values and to establish moral relativism as a new orthodoxy” and went on to detail how he was counteracting that as attorney general. His views are what Katherine Stewart and Caroline Fredrickson identified in a New York Times op-ed as “religious nationalism,” which basically implies either a theocratic state or a single-religion state.</div><div>
</div><div>Barr made his beliefs explicit:</div><div>
</div><div>Judeo-Christian moral standards are the ultimate utilitarian rules for human conduct and religion helps frame moral culture within society that instills and reinforces moral discipline. The fact is that no secular creed has emerged capable of performing the role of religion.</div><div>
</div><div>Apparently the law and the Constitution are just wallpaper, which is an unusual thing for a U.S. attorney general to imply.</div><div>
</div><div>As Stewart and Fredrickson point out, this explains why Barr is so willing to lie and cover for the libertine Trump:</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Within this ideological framework, the ends justify the means. In this light, Mr. Barr’s hyperpartisanship is the symptom, not the malady. At Christian nationalist gatherings and strategy meetings, the<b> Democratic Party and its supporters are routinely described as “demonic”</b> and associated with “rulers of the darkness.” If you know that society is under dire existential threat from secularists, and you know that they have all found a home in the other party, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">every conceivable compromise with principles, every ethical breach, every back-room deal is not only justifiable but imperative. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">And as the vicious reaction to Christianity Today’s anti-Trump editorial demonstrates, any break with this partisan alignment will be instantly denounced as heresy.</span></div><div>
</div><div>Bill Barr may be the most unvetted attorney general in history, which is strange since he had served as AG under George H.W. Bush and was well known in DC circles. How could he have been confirmed as the nation’s top law enforcement official when nobody knew that he was a far-right religious extremist on a mission to use the law and the executive power to enforce a moral code? How many others like him are buried within the Trump administration, protecting this licentious president in order to Make America Christian Again?</div><div>
</div><div>Heather Digby Parton, also known as “Digby,” is a contributing writer to Salon. She was the winner of the 2014 Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis Journalism.</div></div><div>
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</div><div>=</div></div><div>wiki</div><div>p<b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">asquale "Pat" A. Cipollone</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(born May 6, 1966) is an American lawyer who serves as</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Counsel" title="White House Counsel" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">White House Counsel</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">for</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_Donald_Trump" class="mw-redirect" title="President Donald Trump" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">President Donald Trump</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></div><div id="mw-content-text" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" lang="en"><div class="mw-parser-output"><div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); padding: 7px; display: table;"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="direction: ltr; position: absolute; opacity: 0; z-index: -1; display: none;" /><div class="toctitle" dir="ltr" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;" lang="en"><h2 style="background: none; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: 0px; display: inline; line-height: 1.3;">Contents</h2><span class="toctogglespan" style=""><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox" style="cursor: pointer;" /></span></div><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Cipollone#Early_life_and_education" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Early life and education</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Cipollone#Legal_career" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Legal career</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Cipollone#White_House_Counsel" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">White House Counsel</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Cipollone#Personal_life" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Personal life</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Cipollone#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">5</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">References</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Cipollone#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">6</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">External links</span></a></li></ul></div><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pat_Cipollone&action=edit§ion=1&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Early life and education" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;">Cipollone's father was an Italian immigrant and factory worker; his mother was a homemaker. He spent most of his childhood in the Bronx.<sup id="cite_ref-Williamson_1-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Cipollone#cite_note-Williamson-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup> The family moved to Kentucky, where he graduated from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covington_Catholic_High_School" title="Covington Catholic High School" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Covington Catholic High School</a> in 1984.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Cipollone#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup> He graduated as class valedictorian from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fordham_University" title="Fordham University" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Fordham University</a> in 1988, with a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bachelor of Arts</a> in economics and political philosophy.<sup id="cite_ref-Williamson_1-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Cipollone#cite_note-Williamson-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup> He attended the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Chicago_Law_School" title="University of Chicago Law School" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">University of Chicago Law School</a>, where he was managing editor of the <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Chicago_Law_Review" title="University of Chicago Law Review" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">University of Chicago Law Review</a></i>, earning a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juris_Doctor" title="Juris Doctor" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Juris Doctor</a> in 1991.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Cipollone#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup></p><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Legal_career">Legal career</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pat_Cipollone&action=edit§ion=2&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Legal career" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">He was a law clerk for Judge <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Boggs" class="mw-redirect" title="Danny Boggs" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-size: auto; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box;">Danny Boggs</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Sixth_Circuit" title="United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-size: auto; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box;">United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit</a> from 1991–1992, and served as an assistant to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Attorney_General" title="United States Attorney General" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-size: auto; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box;">Attorney General</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_P.Barr" class="mw-redirect" title="William P. Barr" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-size: auto; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box;">William P. Barr</a> from 1992–1993</span>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Cipollone#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;">Cipollone was a partner at the law firm <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkland%26_Ellis" title="Kirkland & Ellis" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Kirkland & Ellis</a>, and prior to taking over as White House Counsel was a partner at Stein, Mitchell, Cipollone, Beato & Missner, where he practiced commercial litigation.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Cipollone#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup> His clients included President Donald Trump<b>, Radio Ingraham LLC</b>, and Sony Entertainment.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Cipollone#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;">Cipollone's financial disclosure reported an income of $6.7 million in 2017-2018.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Cipollone#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Cipollone#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a></sup></p><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><span class="mw-headline" id="White_House_Counsel">White House Counsel</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pat_Cipollone&action=edit§ion=3&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: White House Counsel" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;">Cipollone was named <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Counsel" title="White House Counsel" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">White House Counsel</a> by President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Donald Trump</a> in October 2018.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Cipollone#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Cipollone#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a></sup> He succeeded <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_McGahn" title="Don McGahn" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Don McGahn</a> who left office on October 17, 2018. <sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Cipollone#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a></sup> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmet_Flood" title="Emmet Flood" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Emmet Flood</a> served as counsel until Cipollone's background security check was completed.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Cipollone#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Cipollone#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a></sup> Cipollone officially assumed the role on December 10, 2018.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Cipollone#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;">In his role as White House Counsel, Cipollone has been the public face of the White House response to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_inquiry_into_Donald_Trump" class="mw-redirect" title="Impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump</a>. In October 2019 he signed an eight-page letter to Democratic House leaders stating that the White House would not cooperate in any way with the inquiry. He laid out a broad view of executive authority and said that Democrats' actions violate "the Constitution, the rule of law, and every past precedent".<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Cipollone#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[15]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Williamson_1-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Cipollone#cite_note-Williamson-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup> In December 2019 he wrote two letters in response to an invitation from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Nadler" title="Jerry Nadler" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jerry Nadler</a>, chair of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Judiciary_Committee" class="mw-redirect" title="House Judiciary Committee" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">House Judiciary Committee</a>, for the White House or Trump himself to participate in its hearings. He said the White House and Trump would not participate because the planned hearings do not "provide the president with any semblance of a fair process" and the inquiry is "completely baseless".<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Cipollone#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[16]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Cipollone#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a></sup></p><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Personal_life">Personal life</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pat_Cipollone&action=edit§ion=4&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Personal life" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;">Cipollone is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholic" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Roman Catholic</a>, a founding member of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Catholic_Prayer_Breakfast" title="National Catholic Prayer Breakfast" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">National Catholic Prayer Breakfast</a> and a board member of the Catholic Information Center.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Cipollone#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[18]</a></sup> Conservative commentator <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ingraham" title="Laura Ingraham" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Laura Ingraham</a> credited Cipollone with helping her convert to Catholicism in 2002.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Cipollone#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[19]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Cipollone#cite_note-20" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[20]</a></sup> He has ten children. <sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Cipollone#cite_note-21" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[21]</a></sup> One of Cipollone’s daughters worked as a booker for Ingraham’s show on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News" title="Fox News" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Fox News</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Cipollone#cite_note-22" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[22]</a></sup></p><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pat_Cipollone&action=edit§ion=5&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: References" style="text-decoration-line: none; 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Trump's top White House attorney is Covington Catholic High School graduate"</a>. <i>MSN.com</i>. 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<div class="TbwUpd" style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.57; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 1px;"><cite class="iUh30 bc" style="font-style: normal; padding-top: 1px; line-height: 1.5;">https://www.npr.org › 2019/12/23 › trump-impeachment-trial-turns-spotlight...</cite></div></div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 1.57;"><span class="st" style="line-height: 1.57; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="f" style="line-height: 1.57;">Dec 23, 2019 - </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">White House counsel Pat Cipollone</span> typically works behind the scenes. .... General William Barr and Leonard Leo of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Federalist Society</span>, who ...</span></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 27px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div data-hveid="CAUQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwjH7sWT9efmAhXXXM0KHWEiBXkQFSgAMAl6BAgFEAA"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1.57;"><h3 class="LC20lb" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.3;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/09/us/politics/white-house-counsel-pat-cipollone-impeachment.html" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/09/us/politics/white-house-counsel-pat-cipollone-impeachment.html&ved=2ahUKEwjH7sWT9efmAhXXXM0KHWEiBXkQFjAJegQIBRAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">As White House Counsel, Pat Cipollone Builds Case for ...</a></h3>
<div class="TbwUpd" style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.57; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 1px;"><cite class="iUh30 bc" style="font-style: normal; padding-top: 1px; line-height: 1.5;">https://www.nytimes.com › 2019/10/09 › politics › white-house-counsel-pat-...</cite></div></div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 1.57;"><span class="st" style="line-height: 1.57; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="f" style="line-height: 1.57;">Oct 9, 2019 - </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Pat</span> A. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Cipollone</span>, the <span style="font-weight: bold;">White House counsel</span>, in May. .... sank deep conservative roots, helping lead a student chapter of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Federalist Society</span>.</span></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 27px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div data-hveid="CAYQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwjH7sWT9efmAhXXXM0KHWEiBXkQFSgAMAp6BAgGEAA"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1.57;"><h3 class="LC20lb" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.3;"><a href="http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/10/pat-cipollone-perfect-white-house-counsel.html" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/10/pat-cipollone-perfect-white-house-counsel.html&ved=2ahUKEwjH7sWT9efmAhXXXM0KHWEiBXkQFjAKegQIBhAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Pat Cipollone May Be Perfect Pick for White House Counsel</a></h3>
<div class="TbwUpd" style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.57; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 1px;"><cite class="iUh30 bc" style="font-style: normal; padding-top: 1px; line-height: 1.5;">nymag.com › intelligencer › 2018/10 › pat-cipollone-perfect-white-house-c...</cite></div></div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 1.57;"><span class="st" style="line-height: 1.57; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="f" style="line-height: 1.57;">Oct 17, 2018 - </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Pat Cipollone</span>, Trump's pick for <span style="font-weight: bold;">White House counsel</span>, appears ready to ... at the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Federalist Society</span>; a search for his name on the organization's ...</span></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 27px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div data-hveid="CAgQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwjH7sWT9efmAhXXXM0KHWEiBXkQFSgAMAt6BAgIEAA"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1.57;"><h3 class="LC20lb" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.3;"><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/10/pat-cipollone-white-house-lawyer-impeachment/599305/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/10/pat-cipollone-white-house-lawyer-impeachment/599305/&ved=2ahUKEwjH7sWT9efmAhXXXM0KHWEiBXkQFjALegQICBAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Pat Cipollone, the White House Lawyer Fighting Impeachment ...</a></h3>
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<div class="TbwUpd" style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.57; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 1px;"><cite class="iUh30 bc" style="font-style: normal; padding-top: 1px; line-height: 1.5;">https://www.law360.com › articles › latest-white-house-counsel-touted-as-sav...</cite></div></div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 1.57;"><span class="st" style="line-height: 1.57; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="f" style="line-height: 1.57;">May 22, 2019 - </span>President Donald Trump's new <span style="font-weight: bold;">White House counsel</span> has built a solid ... be venturing into new territory, those who know <span style="font-weight: bold;">Pat Cipollone</span> say he's the ... of The <span style="font-weight: bold;">Federalist Society</span>, who has known Cipollone since the early 2000s.</span></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 27px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div data-hveid="CAMQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwjH7sWT9efmAhXXXM0KHWEiBXkQFSgAMA56BAgDEAA"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1.57;"><h3 class="LC20lb" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.3;"><a href="https://www.axios.com/tag/lawyers/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.axios.com/tag/lawyers/&ved=2ahUKEwjH7sWT9efmAhXXXM0KHWEiBXkQFjAOegQIAxAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Lawyers - Axios</a></h3>
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<div class="TbwUpd" style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.57; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 1px;"><cite class="iUh30 bc" style="font-style: normal; padding-top: 1px; line-height: 1.5;">https://www.washingtonpost.com › politics › 2019/03/03</cite></div></div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 1.57;"><span class="st" style="line-height: 1.57; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="f" style="line-height: 1.57;">Mar 3, 2019 - </span>The former <span style="font-weight: bold;">White House counsel</span> told The Washington Post he will stay involved with ... “You have the White House, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Federalist Society</span> and Senate leadership ... He was succeeded by <span style="font-weight: bold;">White House counsel Pat Cipollone</span>.</span></div></div></div></div></div><div style=""><font style=""></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>