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</div><div><div style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: OpenSans, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);"><div class="QvNnGjy8J7gi" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div style="box-sizing: inherit;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(42, 44, 48); font-family: OpenSans, arial, sans-serif; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; letter-spacing: 0px;">rump-era EPA official Doug Benevento is joining Faegre Drinker, a law firm with connections to former EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler.<p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(42, 44, 48); font-family: OpenSans, arial, sans-serif; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; letter-spacing: 0px;">Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP announced the move Tuesday, saying Benevento is serving as counsel in the firm’s environmental and energy practice in Denver.<p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(42, 44, 48); font-family: OpenSans, arial, sans-serif; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; letter-spacing: 0px;">The law firm was formed last year in a merger between Drinker Biddle & Reath and Faegre Baker Daniels, where Wheeler worked as a lobbyist before joining the Trump administration.<p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(42, 44, 48); font-family: OpenSans, arial, sans-serif; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; letter-spacing: 0px;">Benevento served a variety of top roles at the Environmental Protection Agency during the Trump administration, including acting deputy administrator, associate deputy administrator, senior counsel, ...</div></div></div><div class="ArticleCta_cta_1H74C ArticleCta_unauthorized_2nfzP" style="box-sizing: inherit; position: absolute; bottom: 0px; width: 632px; margin: 24px 0px 16px; padding: 100px 0px 0px; background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) 0%, rgb(242, 242, 242) 50%); font-size: 24px; line-height: 28px; font-family: OpenSans, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);"><div style="box-sizing: inherit;">To read t</div></div></div><div>=
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</div><div>Wheeler Will Be Better at Destroying the EnvironmentWheeler is described by the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/05/climate/wheeler-epa-pruitt.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">New York Times</a> as a “consummate Washington insider who avoids the limelight and has spent years effectively navigating the rules.”The acting chief is known for being highly effective in his work and avoiding the sorts of personal scandals that consumed Pruitt.Analysts believe Wheeler could be more effective than Pruitt at implementing Trump’s deregulatory agenda at the EPA.Wheeler Was an Energy Industry Lobbyist“Like Pruitt, this veteran coal lobby lobbyist has shown only disdain for the E.P.A.’s vital mission to protect Americans’ health and our environment,” Ana Unruh Cohen, managing director for government affairs at the Natural Resources Defense Council, told the Times.Following his tenure at the EPA in the administration of George W. Bush, he became a <a href="https://fortune.com/2018/07/05/who-is-andrew-wheeler-epa-trump-replace-scott-pruitt/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">lobbyist</a> for Murray Energy. The head of the company is a supporter of Trump’s.Wheeler Worked for a Climate Change DenierThe acting EPA administrator previously worked for Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Oklahoma), a climate change denier who called the science “the greatest hoax” ever perpetrated on Americans.Many remember Inhofe for his attempt to debunk global warming “hysteria” by bringing a snowball into the Senate.He <a href="https://qz.com/1322131/andrew-wheeler-coal-lobbyist-replaces-scott-pruitt-as-head-of-epa/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">served</a> as the vice president of the Washington Coal Club.Wheeler Really Loves CoalThis organization is a quiet federation of more than 300 coal producers, corporate leaders, policy professionals and lawmakers.Founded in 1981, the WCC is a powerful force for the coal industry today.Wheeler Lobbied to Open Public Land to Uranium Mining“[We] respectfully request that DOI reduce the size of the BENM to only those specific areas or sites, if any, deemed to need additional protection beyond what is already available to Federal land management agencies,” Energy Fuels Resources wrote to the Trump administration in a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/uranium-firm-urged-trump-officials-to-shrink-bears-ears-national-monument/2017/12/08/2eea39b6-dc31-11e7-b1a8-62589434a581_story.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">request</a> to open parts of Bear Ears National Monument to uranium mining.FaegreBD was the lobbying firm that helped the organization petition the administration.The two lobbyists who worked the Energy Fuels Resources case? Mary Bono, and now-acting EPA chief Andrew Wheeler.</div><div></div><div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/08/epa-chiefs-former-lobbying-clients-are-getting-a-long-list-of-favors-from-agency" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">https://www.alternet.org/2020/08/epa-chiefs-former-lobbying-clients-are-getting-a-long-list-of-favors-from-agency</a></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">At least three former lobbying clients of Environmental Protection Agency chief Andrew Wheeler have received favorable decisions from the EPA under his leadership.Wheeler <a href="https://www.salon.com/2019/09/19/drain-the-swamp-trump-has-named-more-lobbyists-to-cabinet-than-bush-or-obama-did-in-8-years/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">spent years as an energy lobbyist</a> at the law firm Faegre Baker Daniels, where he represented companies like the coal giant Murray Energy, whose owner RobertMurray is a <a href="https://www.salon.com/2018/01/10/trumps-presents-to-coal-country-are-from-a-coal-magnates-wish-list/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">major Trump donor</a>. Wheeler <a href="https://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/documents/national/epa-acting-administrator-andrew-wheelers-recusal-letter/3134/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">signed a pledge</a> in May 2018 to recuse himself from matters related to former clients after he replaced <a href="https://www.salon.com/2018/07/18/scott-pruitt-may-be-gone-but-the-epas-pro-pollution-agenda-remains-intact/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">embattled former EPA administrator Scott Pruitt</a>. But the two-year pledge expired earlier this year and he has been <a href="https://www.citizensforethics.org/press-release/wheeler-ethics-complaint/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">repeatedly accused of violating the agreement</a> by approving rules that he lobbied for as a lobbyist for Murray Energy and others.At least three of Wheeler’s former clients have pushed for rules that the EPA has proposed or implemented under his leadership.“Andrew Wheeler is overseeing policies that damage the air we breathe and water we drink while his associates benefit,” Chris Saeger, a spokesperson for the progressive watchdog group Accountable.US, told Salon. “This is a clear abuse of his taxpayer-funded position and ethics agreement."in April, the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/16/climate/epa-mercury-coal.html" target="blank" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" outline="outline" none="none" margin="margin" px="px" padding="padding" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" transition="transition" color="color" s="s" ease="ease" cursor="cursor" pointer="pointer" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">EPA weakened regulations</a> on the release of mercury and toxic metals from oil and coal-fired power plants, which experts said was aimed at “potentially constraining or handcuffing future efforts by the EPA to regulate air pollution.”The New York Times described the change as a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/16/climate/epa-mercury-coal.html" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">“particular victory”</a> for Murray, who pressed for the change in a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/09/climate/coal-murray-trump-memo.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">“wish list” of environmental regulation rollbacks</a> he handed to President Trump just weeks after his inauguration. Murray <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/24/opinion/money-talked-loudest-at-trumps-inaugural.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">donated $300,000</a> to Trump’s inaugural committee.The Trump administration and federal agencies “have completed or are on track to fulfill most of the 16 detailed requests” in Murray’s wish list, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/09/climate/coal-murray-trump-memo.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">the Times reported in 2018</a>. But Murray had “unsuccessfully pressed the administration in 2017” to roll back the mercury emissions rule, <a href="https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060223767" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">E&E News reported</a>, before it was rescinded under Wheeler.The government watchdog group Citizens for Ethics and Responsibility in Washington <a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/storage.citizensforethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/16174818/Wheeler-Supplemental-Complaint-4-16-19.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">filed an ethics complaint</a> against Wheeler last year over his involvement in the rule change, noting that he “participated in the matter less than a year” after signing the pledge.“It is becoming more and more clear why coal and energy companies are happy to have their former lobbyist Andrew Wheeler in charge of the EPA,” CREW Executive Director Noah Bookbinder <a href="https://www.citizensforethics.org/press-release/wheeler-ethics-complaint/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">said at the time</a>. “Administrator Wheeler’s apparent failure to abide by ethics obligations and to avoid the reality or appearance of conflicts continues to undermine the EPA’s integrity and weakens public confidence in our government.”Earlier this year, the EPA also <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/509792-epa-rule-extends-life-of-toxic-coal-ash-ponds" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">finalized a rule</a> that would extend deadlines to start closing <a href="https://climate.law.columbia.edu/content/epa-proposes-allowing-unlined-coal-ash-ponds-remain-open-years" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">unlined coal ash ponds</a>. Coal ash from coal plants is dumped into excavated holes in the ground, where it mixes with water to create “coal ash ponds,” which can leak if they are not properly lined. The proposed rule would allow some coal plants <a href="https://www.npr.org/2019/11/04/776174139/trump-administration-proposes-relaxing-rules-on-waste-from-coal-plants" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">five more years</a> before requiring them to close the unlined ash ponds.One of the major backers of the rule is the Utility Solid Waste Activities Group (USWAG), a <a href="https://www.energyandpolicy.org/uwag-and-uswag-the-secretive-utility-groups-that-target-epa-rules/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">secretive trade group</a> whose members include <a href="https://www.uswag.org/en/USWAGMemberList" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Xcel Energy</a>, a <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/lobbyists/summary?cycle=2013&id=Y0000039030L" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">longtime former Wheeler client</a>. Xcel Energy <a href="https://beta.regulations.gov/document/EPA-HQ-OLEM-2019-0172-0067" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">called for the rule change</a> and the USWAG <a href="https://earthjustice.org/sites/default/files/files/CCRRulePetitionCoverletter.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">petitioned Pruitt for the rule</a> in 2017. The USWAG <a href="https://www.npr.org/2019/11/04/776174139/trump-administration-proposes-relaxing-rules-on-waste-from-coal-plants" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">praised the EPA</a> for proposing the change under Wheeler last year.Accountable.US criticized the EPA for rolling back regulations on coal ash at the behest of Wheeler’s former client.“Administrator Wheeler is part of a corrupt pattern in the Trump administration, putting the interests of his allies above the public he is supposed to serve,” <a href="https://www.accountable.us/news/breaking-wheeler-weakens-epa-coal-ash-rules-for-former-client/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Saeger said last month</a>. “This administration is abusing its power to hand out favors to corporate lobbyists, selling out Americans’ health and the environment in the process.”In May, the EPA <a href="https://www.regulations.gov/docket?D=EPA-HQ-OAR-2020-0240" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">proposed no additional measures</a> to mitigate negative air quality impacts associated with renewable fuel standards as required under the Clean Air Act. The proposed rule has been open for public comment ever since but has only received 16 thus far, including <a href="https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=EPA-HQ-OAR-2020-0240-0012" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">one supporting the rule from Growth Energy</a>. The company has been one of the <a href="https://biomassmagazine.com/articles/17193/biofuel-groups-file-comments-on-epaundefineds-anti-backsliding-proposal" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">biggest supporters of the rule</a>.Growth Energy was one of Wheeler’s clients before he joined the EPA, according to his <a href="https://www.eenews.net/assets/2017/10/19/document_gw_03.pdf" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">financial disclosure</a>, which said he provided the company “strategic advice and counseling.” Wheeler had pledged to recuse himself from matters related to Growth Energy until shortly before the proposed rule was published.The trend has played out in other agencies whose heads were appointed by the president. The Interior Department has made <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/05/politics/david-bernhardt-interior-oil-and-gas/index.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">at least 15 policy changes or proposals</a> that benefited Secretary David Bernhardt’s former energy industry clients. Several of acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf’s former lobbying clients have also <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/05/former-clients-of-acting-homeland-security-chief-chad-wolf-get-millions-in-dhs-contracts.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">received millions in government contracts</a> while he held senior positions in the department. More than 280 of Trump’s political appointments have been former lobbyists, according to an analysis by <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/we-found-a-staggering-281-lobbyists-whove-worked-in-the-trump-administration" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">ProPublica</a>.CREW has repeatedly called for the EPA’s inspector general to investigate whether Wheeler violated his ethics pledge in connection to rules that benefited his former clients.“Administrator Wheeler has repeatedly used his government position at EPA to benefit the former clients that made him rich, and to the detriment of the agency’s critical mission,” CREW Deputy Director Donald Sherman said in a statement to Salon. “Administrator Wheeler’s continued lobbying on behalf of industry from within EPA, is clear evidence that patronage is a feature, not a bug, of the Trump administration.”</div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ref</div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div><span style="color: rgb(35, 31, 32); font-family: jaf-bernina-sans, " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" font-variant-ligatures="font-variant-ligatures" common-ligatures="common-ligatures" contextual="contextual" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Cathy Tripodi, director of the Laboratory Operations Board, came to the department from a job with the consulting firm of Faegre Baker Daniels, where she represented energy clients.</div><div>
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</div><div><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures contextual; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li>Secretary Andrew Wheeler is a former coal lobbyist whose top client was Murray Energy. That company’s CEO, Robert Murray, is a climate change denier and a major backer of Donald Trump.</li><li>
</li><li>While under consideration for his current post, Wheeler hosted campaign fundraising events for Senators John Barrasso (R-WY) and Jim Inhofe (R-OK), two members of the committee that would do the first review of his fitness. Both senators received campaign donations from a PAC associated with Wheeler’s law firm.</li><li>Murray prepared a policy wish list and <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/18/578791199/photographer-says-he-lost-his-job-after-leaking-pictures-of-rick-perry-and-coal" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s;">hand-delivered</a> it to Energy Secretary Rick Perry. The EPA has so far acted on at least several of Murray’s recommendations. They include abandoning an Obama administration rule barring coal companies from dumping waste into streams and waterways; making it easier to open new coal plants; and allowing higher levels of mercury pollution.</li><li>
</li><li>Nancy Beck, named deputy assistant administrator for Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention (and recently nominated to head the Consumer Product Safety Commission), is a former industry lobbyist who, before coming to the EPA, battled against an agency proposal to halt the sale of three chemicals linked to birth defects, nerve damage, and deaths. Within weeks of her arrival, Beck was leading the charge against that proposal, using the same arguments she had developed as a lobbyist, to the dismay of agency professionals who had long been working on the issue. Seeking to dispel any ethical concerns, the EPA had its legal counsel compose a pair of “impartiality determination” memos citing Beck’s “unique expertise, knowledge and past experience” and the need to consider “all perspectives.”</li><li>Wheeler has absolved his agency of any duty to address global warming, the biggest and clearest environmental threat facing our country and the world.</li></ul><h2 style="padding: 0px; margin: 2em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.2; text-transform: uppercase; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures contextual; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">UNDUE INFLUENCE</h2><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures contextual; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li>David Dunlap, deputy assistant administrator for research and development, is a former policy director for Koch Industries. At EPA, Dunlap has had a role in regulating formaldehyde despite the fact that one of the country’s largest producers of formaldehyde, Georgia-Pacific Chemicals, is a Koch subsidiary.</li><li>David Fischer, deputy assistant administrator for chemical safety and pollution prevention, is a former industry lawyer and senior director of the American Chemistry Council, which represents chemical companies.</li><li>
</li><li>Alexandra Dunn, assistant administrator for chemical safety and pollution prevention, was also employed by the American Chemistry Council.</li><li>As an industry lawyer, Susan Bodine, now assistant administrator for enforcement and compliance assurance, had defended polluting companies against Superfund cleanup responsibilities.</li><li>
</li><li>Peter Wright, assistant administrator for land and emergency management, oversees toxic waste site cleanup. He used to work for DowDuPont, which has been implicated in problems affecting roughly one-seventh of all toxic waste cleanup sites.</li><li>Senior Deputy Counsel Erik Baptist, the EPA’s top lawyer for chemical safety, came from the American Petroleum Institute.</li><li>Steven Cook, chair of the Superfund toxic cleanup task force, spent more than two decades as a lawyer for LyondellBasell Industries, self-described as “one of the largest plastics, chemicals and refining companies in the world.”</li><li>
</li><li>David Ross, assistant administrator for water, is a former lobbyist with Crowell and Moring, representing Peabody Energy, among other clients.</li><li>Dennis Forsgren, deputy assistant administrator for water, was a lobbyist for GE and Exxon, among others.</li><li>Troy Lyons, associate administrator for congressional and intergovernmental relations, previously worked for Hess and British Petroleum.</li><li>Senior Adviser George Sugiyama came over from the lobbying firm of Troutman Sanders, with the National Mining Association as one of his clients.</li></ul><h2 style="padding: 0px; margin: 2em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.2; text-transform: uppercase; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures contextual; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">IGNOMINIOUS DEPARTURES</h2><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures contextual; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li>Scott Pruitt, Wheeler’s predecessor. In addition to spending more than $124,000 on unjustified first-class air travel and $43,000 on a soundproof phone booth, Pruitt used EPA staff to help land a job for his wife, rented a condominium apartment on Capitol Hill at a bargain rate from a lobbyist’s wife, asked aides to purchase an old mattress from the Trump Hotel, and had his security detail drive him around on drugstore errands.</li><li>Bill Wehrum, former assistant administrator for air and radiation, had been a lawyer/lobbyist representing clients in more than 30 pollution-related lawsuits against the EPA. He resigned in June 2019, while under investigation by a House committee for conflicts of interest, after the announcement of a weak EPA replacement rule for the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan.</li></ul><h2 style="padding: 0px; margin: 2em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.2; text-transform: uppercase; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures contextual; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">WE DON’T WANT TO HEAR ABOUT IT</h2><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures contextual; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li>The agency has moved to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/26/climate/epa-scientific-transparency-honest-act.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s;">limit the use of scientific research to cases in which all</a> raw data is publicly accessible. This would exclude numerous studies that rely on confidential personal-health data.</li><li>EPA has left many vacancies unfilled in the office responsible for air pollution and toxics research. Remaining staff feel pressured to keep quiet on sensitive topics like climate change, according to one veteran of the unit who left in 2017.</li><li>After a scientific advisory board questioned the basis for a proposed rewrite of Obama administration rules on waterways and vehicle tailpipe emissions, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/15/climate/epa-advisory-panels-gao-report.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s;">more than a quarter of the panel members were dismissed</a> or resigned, many of them to be replaced by scientists with industry ties.</li><li>In 2019, the EPA terminated its funding of 13 health centers around the country that studied the effects of pollution on the growth and development of children, among other things.</li><li>In 2017, aides to Administrator Scott Pruitt told EPA economists to re-evaluate the effects of the Obama administration’s clean-water rule. Their initial study had found more than half a billion dollars in economic benefits; now they were ordered to say the benefits could not be quantified, according to a 30-year veteran of the agency who left around this time—part of an exodus of professional staff.</li></ul><h2 style="padding: 0px; margin: 2em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.2; text-transform: uppercase; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures contextual; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">FURTHER REFERENCE</h2><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures contextual; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li><a href="https://swamptourdc.com/opg/PCI_Wheeler_OnePager.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s;">Andrew Wheeler</a> (Revolving Door Project Swamp Tour)</li><li><a href="https://theintercept.com/2018/02/07/coal-lobbyist-andrew-wheeler-epa-deputy-confirmation/" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s;">Coal Lobbyist Hosted Fundraisers for Senators Evaluating His Nomination for Top EPA Post</a> (Intercept)</li><li><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-25/epa-chief-racked-up-3-1-million-bill-for-security-in-first-year" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s;">EPA’s Pruitt Racked Up $3.1 Million Bill for Security in First Year</a> (Bloomberg)</li><li><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/08/28/carl-icahns-failed-raid-on-washington" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s;">Carl Icahn’s Failed Raid on Washington</a> (New Yorker)</li><li><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-biofuels-epa-icahn/exclusive-u-s-epa-grants-biofuels-waiver-to-billionaire-icahns-oil-refinery-sources-idUSKBN1I10YB" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s;">US EPA grants biofuels waiver to billionaire Carl Icahn’s oil refinery</a> (Reuters)</li><li><a href="https://www.citizen.org/article/trumps-chemical-romance/" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s;">Trump’s Chemical Romance</a> (Public Citizen)</li><li><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/the-senate-is-about-to-confirm-a-coal-lobbyist-as-top-epa-deputy/2018/04/12/b1bb6844-3dbe-11e8-a7d1-e4efec6389f0_story.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s;">Senate confirms a former coal lobbyist as Scott Pruitt’s second-in-command at EPA</a> (Washington Post)</li><li><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/12/10/white-house-considering-former-chemical-industry-executive-lead-consumer-product-safety-commission/" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s;">Trump may appoint former chemical industry executive to lead Consumer Product Safety Commission</a> (Washington Post)</li><li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/21/us/trump-epa-chemicals-regulations.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s;">Why Has the E.P.A. Shifted on Toxic Chemicals? An Industry Insider Helps Call the Shots.</a> (New York Times)</li><li><a href="https://e360.yale.edu/features/how-trump-administration-has-pulled-back-on-regulating-toxic-chemicals" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s;">How the Trump Administration Pulled Back on Regulating Toxic Chemicals</a> (Yale Environment)</li><li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/09/climate/trump-nepa-environment.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s;">Trump’s Move Against Landmark Environmental Law Caps a Relentless Agenda</a> (New York Times)</li><li><a href="https://www.citizensforethics.org/leveraging-the-revolving-door-lobbying-forms-show-how-agriculture-group-targets-officials-with-industry-ties-for-advocacy/" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s;">Leveraging the revolving door: lobbying forms show how agriculture group targets officials with industry ties for advocacy</a> (CREW)</li><li><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/leahrosenbaum/2019/07/19/epa-rejects-ban-on-common-pesticide-linked-to-brain-damage-in-children/#6448b5111026" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s;">EPA Rejects Ban On Common Pesticide Linked to Brain Damage in Children</a> (Forbes)</li><li><a href="https://projects.propublica.org/trump-town/staffers/category/lobbyists" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s;">Directory of Lobbyists in Trump Administration</a> (ProPublica)</li><li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/03/climate/consumer-product-safety-commission-nancy-beck.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s;">Chemical Industry Executive Nominated to Lead Consumer Watchdog Agency</a> (New York Times)</li><li><a href="https://thinkprogress.org/former-chemical-industry-attorney-new-chair-epa-superfund-task-force-9d8550eb28ac/" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s;">Former chemical industry attorney takes over EPA’s Superfund task force</a> (ThinkProgress)</li><li><a href="https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/05/epa-plan-end-funding-children-s-health-research-leaves-scientists-scrambling" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s;">EPA plan to end funding for children’s health research leaves scientists scrambling</a> (Science)</li></ul></div><div></div></div><div>
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</div><div>Faegre Baker Daniels LLP (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:En-us-FaegreBakerDaniels.ogg" title="About this sound" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><img alt="About this sound" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Loudspeaker.svg/11px-Loudspeaker.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Loudspeaker.svg/17px-Loudspeaker.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Loudspeaker.svg/22px-Loudspeaker.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px;" /></a><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/84/En-us-FaegreBakerDaniels.ogg" class="internal" title="En-us-FaegreBakerDaniels.ogg" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">/ˈfeɪgriː ˈbeɪkər ˈdænjəlz/</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Media_help" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Media help" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">help</a>·<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:En-us-FaegreBakerDaniels.ogg" title="File:En-us-FaegreBakerDaniels.ogg" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">info</a>)), also known as FaegreBD, and now Faegre Drinker after a 2020 merger, is a full-service international law firm, and one of the 75 largest law firms headquartered in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States" 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;">United States</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faegre_Baker_Daniels#cite_note-AmLaw-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a> The firm, which has a strong presence in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwestern_United_States" title="Midwestern United States" 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;">Midwestern United States</a>, was formed on January 1, 2012, as the combination of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faegre%26_Benson_LLP" class="mw-redirect" title="Faegre & Benson LLP" 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;">Faegre & Benson LLP</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker%26_Daniels_LLP" class="mw-redirect" title="Baker & Daniels LLP" 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;">Baker & Daniels LLP</a>. Faegre & Benson was established in Minneapolis in 1886 (originally as "Cobb & Wheelwright") and had grown to be the largest law firm in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_Cities" class="mw-redirect" title="Twin Cities" 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;">Twin Cities</a>. Baker & Daniels was established in Indianapolis as Hendricks & Hord in 1863, and became the second-largest firm in Indiana (behind competing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnes%26_Thornburg" title="Barnes & Thornburg" 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;">Barnes & Thornburg</a>). </div><div>The two firms combined on January 1, 2012, and began business operations as Faegre Baker Daniels LLP. As a full-service international law firm, Faegre Baker Daniels LLP provides legal counseling and litigation to a wide range of clients across many practice areas. In addition, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faegre_Baker_Daniels#Faegre_Baker_Daniels_Consulting" title="Faegre Baker Daniels" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Faegre Baker Daniels Consulting</a>, the firm's national advisory and advocacy practice, advises clients public and private clients with interdisciplinary consulting services. The combined firm employs more than 800 lawyers and consultants in offices throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faegre_Baker_Daniels#cite_note-Offices-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a></div><div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr;"><div class="mw-parser-output" style="">In February 2020, it completed a merger with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinker,Biddle%26_Reath" class="mw-redirect" title="Drinker, Biddle & Reath" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Drinker, Biddle & Reath</a>, becoming Faegre Drinker.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faegre_Baker_Daniels#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a><div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading" style="background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 7px; display: table;"><ul style="list-style-image: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faegre_Baker_Daniels#History" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1History</a><ul style="list-style-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faegre_Baker_Daniels#Faegre&Benson" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1.1Faegre & Benson</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faegre_Baker_Daniels#Baker&Daniels" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1.2Baker & Daniels</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faegre_Baker_Daniels#Combination_and_Beyond" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1.3Combination and Beyond</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faegre_Baker_Daniels#Practice_areas" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2Practice areas</a><ul style="list-style-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faegre_Baker_Daniels#Legal_Practice" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.1Legal Practice</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faegre_Baker_Daniels#Faegre_Baker_Daniels_Consulting" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.2Faegre Baker Daniels Consulting</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faegre_Baker_Daniels#Size_and_Reach" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3Size and Reach</a><ul style="list-style-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faegre_Baker_Daniels#North_America" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3.1North America</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faegre_Baker_Daniels#Europe" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3.2Europe</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faegre_Baker_Daniels#Asia" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3.3Asia</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faegre_Baker_Daniels#Notable_Rankings_and_Awards" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">4Notable Rankings and Awards</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faegre_Baker_Daniels#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5References</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faegre_Baker_Daniels#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">6External links</a></li></ul></div><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;">History[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Faegre_Baker_Daniels&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a>]</h2>Faegre Baker Daniels was formed in 2012 by the combination of two Midwest firms, each with its own history stretching back more than a century.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faegre_Baker_Daniels#cite_note-History-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6;">Faegre & Benson[</h3>
Faegre and Benson, who first met in 1909 as opposing players in a college football game, became up-and-coming leaders of the firm. When Hoke and two associates departed in 1938, the firm was reorganized as Faegre, Benson & Krause. On the death of Krause the following year, it became Faegre & Benson in 1940. The firm grew modestly until 1959, when a reorganization of the firm's management structure and new strategic initiatives put the firm on a growth path. That growth was accompanied by changes in the needs of its clients and the evolution of global business. As a result, new practices emerged in areas such as health care, intellectual property and mass tort. Faegre & Benson opened Colorado offices in Boulder and Denver in 1985. In 1990, Faegre & Benson became the first national law firm to establish an office in Des Moines, Iowa. Then, the firm opened an office in London in 1995 and an office in Shanghai in 2001. By the time it announced its merger with Baker & Daniels, it had already become the largest law firm in Minnesota and had been one of the 100 largest law firms in the United States, with well-known clients such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Target_Corporation" title="Target Corporation" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Target</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfizer" title="Pfizer" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Pfizer</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wells_Fargo" title="Wells Fargo" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Wells Fargo</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3M" title="3M" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">3M</a>.Faegre & Benson was founded in Minneapolis as Cobb & Wheelwright during 1863 by Albert Cobb and John Wheelwright. The two men had studied law together at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowdoin_College" title="Bowdoin College" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bowdoin College</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunswick,Maine" title="Brunswick, Maine" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Brunswick</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maine" title="Maine" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Maine</a>. It was not until decades later that John Barthell Faegre and John Benson, who would become namesakes of the firm, joined the practice. John Benson became a partner in 1914, after serving as a clerk. In 1923, George Hoke, Claude Krause and John Barthell Faegre joined the firm, which was renamed Cobb, Wheelwright Hoke & Benson. Following the accidental death of Wheelwright in 1927, the firm became Cobb, Hoke, Benson, Krause & Faegre.<h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6;">Baker & Daniels[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Faegre_Baker_Daniels&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Baker & Daniels" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a>]</h3>
Through the years, Baker & Daniels has expanded. In 1976, the firm established an office in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,D.C." title="Washington, D.C." style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Washington, D.C.</a> The Fort Wayne, Indiana, office opened in 1983. In the 1990s, Baker & Daniels continued to expand. The South Bend, Indiana, office opened in 1990, followed by the Elkhart, Indiana, office in 1993. In 1998, the firm’s first overseas office was opened in China. In 2000, Baker & Daniels opened its 96th Street office in Indianapolis. As part of a long-term growth strategy, Baker & Daniels consolidated its practices in North Central Indiana into a regional model in 2007 by transferring operations in Elkhart to the South Bend office. Then in 2008, the firm opened a new South Bend office. Baker & Daniels expanded its presence in Chicago with the opening of a new law office in 2008.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">citation needed</a>]Baker & Daniels was founded as Hendricks & Hord in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1863. Then-U.S. Senator <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_A.Hendricks" title="Thomas A. Hendricks" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Thomas A. Hendricks</a>, who later served as Governor of Indiana and Vice President of the United States under <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Cleveland" title="Grover Cleveland" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Grover Cleveland</a>, partnered with Oscar Hord, a former Indiana Attorney General, to create the new firm. The first Baker at the firm was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad_Baker" title="Conrad Baker" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Conrad Baker</a>, who also served as Governor of Indiana. Later, Albert Baker, the son of Conrad Baker, and Edward Daniels, the first Daniels at the firm, joined the practice. After going through several name changes, the firm became known as Baker & Daniels in 1888. After that, Joseph Daniels, the son of Edward Daniels, joined the firm.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faegre_Baker_Daniels#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a>While Baker & Daniels was expanding the reach of its legal practice, it was also extending the scope of its services with various consulting practices, which would eventually become Faegre Baker Daniels Consulting following the combination of the two law firms. Sagamore Associates (also known over time as Gogol & Associates or B&D Sagamore) was formed in Washington, D.C. in 1985 to assist the firm's clients with federal relations issues. In the 1990s, a second subsidiary company called Capitol Direct (later B&D Quorum) was formed in D.C. to assist clients through grassroots advocacy, direct marketing and public affairs efforts. At the turn of the millennium, a third consulting practice was added when Baker & Daniels formed Aventor, a global medical technology consulting firm. Each of these three practices were combined in 2006 to create one company, B&D Consulting. B&D Consulting expanded its national services to the property tax industry with the addition of the B&D Equity Property Tax Group in Chicago.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">citation needed</a>]Notable lawyers associated with the legacy firm Baker & Daniels have included <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Bayh" title="Evan Bayh" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Evan Bayh</a> was a Baker & Daniels partner before his election to the U.S. Senate. Other former partners include <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Goldsmith" title="Stephen Goldsmith" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Stephen Goldsmith</a>, former Mayor of Indianapolis; Pam Carter, the first African-American female State Attorney General in the country; and Indiana Governor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_Daniels" title="Mitch Daniels" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Mitch Daniels</a>, a firm partner before taking a senior position at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_Lilly_and_Company" title="Eli Lilly and Company" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Eli Lilly and Company</a>. One former partner is and another was a Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Swarbrick" title="Jack Swarbrick" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jack Swarbrick</a>, a former Baker & Daniels partner, became athletic director at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Notre_Dame" title="University of Notre Dame" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">University of Notre Dame</a> in 2008, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Glass" title="Fred Glass" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Fred Glass</a>, another former partner at Baker & Daniels, became athletic director at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_University" title="Indiana University" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Indiana University</a> at the start of 2009.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">citation needed</a>]<h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6;">Combination and Beyond[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Faegre_Baker_Daniels&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Combination and Beyond" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a>]</h3>Faegre & Benson and Baker & Daniels were not immune to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%E2%80%932012_global_recession" class="mw-redirect" title="2008–2012 global recession" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2008–2012 global recession</a>, which led to changes in the legal economy. Firms like Faegre & Benson and Baker & Daniels had to resort to salary cuts, reduced or delayed hiring and even staff layoffs in some cases.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faegre_Baker_Daniels#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a> While the firms weathered the storm, they began to explore ways to adapt to the changing legal market and, on August 11, 2011, the two firms announced they were exploring a potential combination.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faegre_Baker_Daniels#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a> The combination was approved two months later<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faegre_Baker_Daniels#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a> and on January 1, 2012, Faegre & Benson and Baker & Daniels began business operations as Faegre Baker Daniels LLP.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faegre_Baker_Daniels#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a> The combination was presented as a merger of equals - the combined firm has no official "headquarters" and the leaders of each legacy firm retained a management role. Legacy Faegre chair Andrew Humphrey became managing partner of the combined firm, while legacy Baker & Daniels CEO Thomas Froehle, Jr. became its chief operating partner.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faegre_Baker_Daniels#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a> Nonetheless, legacy Faegre - the larger firm - was reputed to be the "dominant" firm in the merger.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faegre_Baker_Daniels#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a>On July 1, 2013, Faegre Baker Daniels opened a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Valley" title="Silicon Valley" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Silicon Valley</a> office, the firm's first new location since the January 2012 merger. The office is located in East Palo Alto, California, and is initially offering intellectual property services. Faegre Baker Daniels has announced plans to add food and agriculture litigation, immigration and privacy law capabilities to the office in the future. In March 2017, Faegre Baker Daniels opened a Los Angeles office, the firm's newest location. The office offers business, employment, intellectual property and product liability litigation and consulting.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faegre_Baker_Daniels#cite_note-LARelease-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12]</a>Faegre Baker Daniels reportedly represented USA Gymnastics in the investigation of former team doctor Larry Nassar and participated in reporting Nassar to the FBI during the summer of 2015.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faegre_Baker_Daniels#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a>
<h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;">Practice areas[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Faegre_Baker_Daniels&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Practice areas" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a>]</h2><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6;">Legal Practice[</h3>Faegre Baker Daniels is a full-service law firm, with lawyers specializing in the following areas of law, among others:<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faegre_Baker_Daniels#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a><div class="div-col columns column-width" style="margin-top: 0.3em; column-width: 30em;"><ul style="list-style-image: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" skins.vector.styles="skins.vector.styles" images="images" bullet-icon.svg="bullet-icon.svg" d4515="d4515" margin="margin" px="px" em="em" padding="padding"><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_law" title="Corporate law" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Corporate</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_law" title="Environmental law" 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;">Environmental</a></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ERISA" class="mw-redirect" title="ERISA" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">ERISA, Benefits & Executive Compensation</a></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt_restructuring" title="Debt restructuring" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Finance & Restructuring</a></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_law" class="mw-redirect" title="Government law" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Government</a></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property_law" class="mw-redirect" title="Intellectual property law" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Intellectual Property</a></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_law" class="mw-redirect" title="Labor law" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Labor & Employment</a></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litigation" class="mw-redirect" title="Litigation" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Litigation & Advocacy</a></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_estate_law" class="mw-redirect" title="Real estate law" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Real Estate</a> & <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construction_law" title="Construction law" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Construction</a></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_law" title="Regulatory law" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Regulatory</a></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_law" title="Tax law" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Tax</a></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_Management" class="mw-redirect" title="Wealth Management" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Wealth Management</a></li></ul></div><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6;">Faegre Baker Daniels Consulting[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Faegre_Baker_Daniels&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Faegre Baker Daniels Consulting" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a>]</h3>The firm also includes Faegre Baker Daniels Consulting, a division based in Washington, D.C. that acts as a national advisory and advocacy firm. Originally formed in 1985 to act as a full-service <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobbying_in_the_United_States" title="Lobbying in the United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">lobbying group</a>, it became an important division of legacy firm Baker & Daniels as its scope grew to include grassroots advocacy, direct marketing and public affairs efforts, global medical technology consulting and advice on property tax issues. During this time, the group underwent various name changes (including Gogol & Associates, Sagamore Associates and B&D Consulting). The division was finally rebranded FaegreBD Consulting in connection with the 2012 combination, and now includes approximately fifty professionals who provide interdisciplinary services for private and public sector clients across the country from offices in Washington, D.C., Chicago and Indianapolis. FaegreBD Consulting markets expertise in the following sectors:<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faegre_Baker_Daniels#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[15]</a><div class="div-col columns column-width" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0.3em;"><ul style="list-style-image: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" skins.vector.styles="skins.vector.styles" images="images" bullet-icon.svg="bullet-icon.svg" d4515="d4515" margin="margin" px="px" em="em" padding="padding"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;">Communities & Local Governments</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;">Economic Development</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;">Energy & Environment</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;">Equity Property Tax</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;">Federal Government Relations</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;">Health & Biosciences</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;">Higher Education</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;">Insurance & Financial Services</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;">Sports</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;">Strategic Communications</li></ul></div><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;">Size and Reach[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Faegre_Baker_Daniels&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Size and Reach" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a>]</h2><div class="thumb tright" style="background-color: transparent; margin: 0.5em 0px 1.3em 1.4em; width: auto; clear: right; float: right;"><div class="thumbinner" style="min-width: 100px; border: 1px solid rgb(200, 204, 209); padding: 3px; background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); text-align: center; overflow: hidden; width: 182px;">
<div class="thumbcaption" style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 3px; text-align: left;"><div class="magnify" style="float: right; margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wells_Fargo_Center_from_Foshay.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url(" w="w" resources="resources" src="src" mediawiki.skinning="mediawiki.skinning" images="images" magnify-clip-ltr.svg="magnify-clip-ltr.svg" e="e" display="display" block="block" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" width="width" height="height" user-select="user-select" none="none" /></div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wells_Fargo_Center_from_Foshay.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url(" w="w" resources="resources" src="src" mediawiki.skinning="mediawiki.skinning" images="images" magnify-clip-ltr.svg="magnify-clip-ltr.svg" e="e" display="display" block="block" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" width="width" height="height" user-select="user-select" none="none">Minneapolis's </a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wells_Fargo_Center(Minneapolis)" title="Wells Fargo Center (Minneapolis)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Wells Fargo Center</a>, home of Faegre Baker Daniel's largest office.</div></div></div>Faegre Baker Daniels has more than 750 legal and consulting professionals in fifteen offices worldwide.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faegre_Baker_Daniels#cite_note-Offices-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a> These offices include:<h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6;">North America[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Faegre_Baker_Daniels&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: North America" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a>]</h3><ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); list-style-image: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" skins.vector.styles="skins.vector.styles" images="images" bullet-icon.svg="bullet-icon.svg" d4515="d4515" margin="margin" em="em" px="px" padding="padding"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minneapolis,Minnesota" class="mw-redirect" title="Minneapolis, Minnesota" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Minneapolis</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota" title="Minnesota" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Minnesota</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indianapolis,Indiana" class="mw-redirect" title="Indianapolis, Indiana" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Indianapolis</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana" title="Indiana" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Indiana</a><ul style="list-style-image: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" skins.vector.styles="skins.vector.styles" images="images" bullet-icon.svg="bullet-icon.svg" d4515="d4515" margin="margin" em="em" px="px" padding="padding"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown_Indianapolis" title="Downtown Indianapolis" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Downtown</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">96th Street</li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulder,Colorado" title="Boulder, Colorado" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Boulder</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado" title="Colorado" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Colorado</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago,Illinois" class="mw-redirect" title="Chicago, Illinois" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Chicago</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois" title="Illinois" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Illinois</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denver,Colorado" class="mw-redirect" title="Denver, Colorado" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Denver</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado" title="Colorado" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Colorado</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Des_Moines,Iowa" title="Des Moines, Iowa" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Des Moines</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa" title="Iowa" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Iowa</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Wayne,Indiana" title="Fort Wayne, Indiana" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Fort Wayne</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana" title="Indiana" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Indiana</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Palo_Alto" class="mw-redirect" title="East Palo Alto" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">East Palo Alto</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Valley" title="Silicon Valley" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Silicon Valley</a>), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California" title="California" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">California</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Los Angeles</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California" title="California" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">California</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Bend,Indiana" title="South Bend, Indiana" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">South Bend</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana" title="Indiana" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Indiana</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,D.C." title="Washington, D.C." style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Washington, D.C.</a></li></ul><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6;">Europe[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Faegre_Baker_Daniels&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Europe" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a>]</h3><ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); list-style-image: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" skins.vector.styles="skins.vector.styles" images="images" bullet-icon.svg="bullet-icon.svg" d4515="d4515" margin="margin" em="em" px="px" padding="padding"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London" title="London" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">London</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England" title="England" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">England</a></li></ul><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6;">Asia[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Faegre_Baker_Daniels&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Asia" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a>]</h3><ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); list-style-image: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" skins.vector.styles="skins.vector.styles" images="images" bullet-icon.svg="bullet-icon.svg" d4515="d4515" margin="margin" em="em" px="px" padding="padding"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing" title="Beijing" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Beijing</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China" title="China" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">China</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai" title="Shanghai" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Shanghai</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China" title="China" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">China</a></li></ul><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;">Notable Rankings and Awards[</h2>Third party recognition for Faegre Baker Daniels (and, prior to the 2012 combination, each of its legacy firms) and its attorneys and consulting professionals includes:<ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); list-style-image: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" skins.vector.styles="skins.vector.styles" images="images" bullet-icon.svg="bullet-icon.svg" d4515="d4515" margin="margin" em="em" px="px" padding="padding"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Ranked among the top 20 law firms in the United States for client service by The BTI Consulting Group <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faegre_Baker_Daniels#cite_note-The_BTI_Consulting_Group%E2%80%93_Top_Client_Service-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[16]</a> (2009)U</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">U.S. News & World Report "Best Law Firms" (2014)</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Ranked top corporate law firm in Minneapolis among general counsel surveyed by Corporate Board Member (2009)</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Recognized as a client relationship leader by Fortune 1000 corporate counsel surveyed by The BTI Consulting Group <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faegre_Baker_Daniels#cite_note-The_BTI_Consulting_Group%E2%80%93_Client_Relationship-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a> (2009)</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Ranked by the Legal 500 directory among the top U.S. law firms in various practice areas, including finance, middle-market M&A, real estate and construction, and previous recognition for First Amendment litigation and counseling and domestic tax.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faegre_Baker_Daniels#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[18]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Ranked among the top U.S. law firms for certain practices in Minnesota, Colorado, Indiana, Iowa and nationwide by Chambers and Partners. The firm's UK office has also received recognition.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faegre_Baker_Daniels#cite_note-Chambers_and_Partners-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[19]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Awarded a score of 100 percent by the Human Rights Campaign in its annual Corporate Equality Index, which measures how U.S. companies treat their gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender employees and clients, making it one of their "Best Places to Work" <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faegre_Baker_Daniels#cite_note-Human_Rights_Campaign%E2%80%93_Corporate_Equality_Index-20" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[20]</a> (2004–2010, 2012-17)</li></ul><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;">References[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Faegre_Baker_Daniels&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a>]</h2><div class="reflist" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.5em; list-style-type: decimal;"><div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns" style="column-width: 30em;"><ol class="references" style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-parent 0 list-item 0; list-style-type: inherit;"><li id="cite_note-AmLaw-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;">^ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faegre_Baker_Daniels#cite_ref-AmLaw_1-0" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:a</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faegre_Baker_Daniels#cite_ref-AmLaw_1-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">b</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.americanlawyer.com/law-firm-profiles-result?firmname=Faegre+Baker+Daniels&slreturn=20170112111815" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" skins.vector.styles="skins.vector.styles" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" b4b84="b4b84" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">[1]</a>. The firm is among the 75 largest firms in the U.S., based on gross revenue.</li><li id="cite_note-Offices-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;">^ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faegre_Baker_Daniels#cite_ref-Offices_2-0" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:a</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faegre_Baker_Daniels#cite_ref-Offices_2-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">b</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.faegrebd.com/locations" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" skins.vector.styles="skins.vector.styles" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" b4b84="b4b84" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">FaegreBD.com - Cities and Office Locations</a></li><li id="cite_note-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faegre_Baker_Daniels#cite_ref-3" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a> }David Thomas, "Faegre Drinker Makes Its Debut, Pressing Size as an Advantage," The American Lawyer (Feb. 3, 2020), <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.law.com/americanlawyer/2020/02/03/faegre-drinker-makes-its-debut-pressing-size-as-an-advantage/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" skins.vector.styles="skins.vector.styles" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" b4b84="b4b84" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" overflow-wrap="overflow-wrap" break-word="break-word">https://www.law.com/americanlawyer/2020/02/03/faegre-drinker-makes-its-debut-pressing-size-as-an-advantage/</a></li><li id="cite_note-History-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; 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background: none;">^{</a> }Gugin, p. 158–159</li><li id="cite_note-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faegre_Baker_Daniels#cite_ref-6" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Above_the_Law(blog)" class="mw-redirect" title="Above the Law (blog)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Above the Law (blog)</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://abovethelaw.com/2009/09/nationwide-salary-cut-watch-dont-forget-about-faegre-benson/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" skins.vector.styles="skins.vector.styles" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" b4b84="b4b84" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">Nationwide Salary Cut Watch: Don’t Forget About Faegre & Benson</a> (September 16, 2009)</li><li id="cite_note-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faegre_Baker_Daniels#cite_ref-7" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a> }Brian Baxter, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://amlawdaily.typepad.com/amlawdaily/2011/08/baker-daniels-faegre-benson.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" skins.vector.styles="skins.vector.styles" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" b4b84="b4b84" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">Baker & Daniels and Faegre & Benson Confirm Merger Talks</a>, Am Law Daily, August 11, 2011.</li><li id="cite_note-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faegre_Baker_Daniels#cite_ref-8" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a> }Press Release - <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.faegrebd.com/13866" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" skins.vector.styles="skins.vector.styles" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" b4b84="b4b84" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">Faegre & Benson and Baker & Daniels To Become Faegre Baker Daniels</a> (October 12, 2011).</li><li id="cite_note-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faegre_Baker_Daniels#cite_ref-9" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a> }Press Release - <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.faegrebd.com/17601" style="text-decoration-line: none; 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<table width="100%"><tbody><tr><td><div class="story-interrupt format-s pos-alpha predetermined" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; width: 737.188px; float: left; margin-right: 73.7188px;"><div class="interrupt-item ad" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div id="mw-content-text" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; line-height: 22.4px;" lang="en"><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none;"> Hinderaker<span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;">[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Power_Line&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: John H. Hinderaker" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>John H. Hinderaker (born September 1950) is a conservative <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">American</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawyer" title="Lawyer" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">lawyer</a>, as well as a fellow at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claremont_Institute" title="Claremont Institute" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Claremont Institute</a>. He is a 1971 graduate of Dartmouth College in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanover,New_Hampshire" title="Hanover, New Hampshire" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Hanover, New Hampshire</a>, and received a<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juris_Doctor" title="Juris Doctor" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Juris Doctor</a> (J.D.) from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Law_School" title="Harvard Law School" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Harvard Law School</a> in 1974.<h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none;">Scott W. Johnson<span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;">[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Power_Line&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Scott W. Johnson" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>Scott W. Johnson (born 1951) is an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">American</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawyer" title="Lawyer" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">lawyer</a> and executive.Johnson was born in Fargo, North Dakota to a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish" title="Jewish" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Jewish</a> family. He received a Bachelor's Degree from Dartmouth College in 1973 and subsequently undertook a degree at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Minnesota_Law_School" title="University of Minnesota Law School" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">University of Minnesota Law School</a>. At one stage, he was a partner of John Hinderaker at Faegre and Benson, and is now Senior Vice President of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=TCF_National_Bank&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="TCF National Bank (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">TCF National Bank</a> in Minneapolis.Johnson

started working with Hinderaker on opinion pieces on tax, welfare

reform and other public policy issues. The articles were run in

conservative publications such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Review" title="National Review" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">National Review</a> and a wide range of newspapers. Both Johnson and Hinderaker became involved with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claremont_Institute" title="Claremont Institute" style="text-decoration: none; background: none rgb(255, 255, 102);">Claremont Institute</a> along with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Mirengoff" title="Paul Mirengoff" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Paul Mirengoff</a>, who was Hinderaker's roommate at Dartmouth.<h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none;">Paul Mirengoff<span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;">[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Power_Line&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Paul Mirengoff" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>Paul Mirengoff (born April 17, 1949) is a retired <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawyer" title="Lawyer" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">attorney</a>.Mirengoff graduated from Dartmouth College in 1971, and from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_University" title="Stanford University" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Stanford Law School</a> in 1974. He formerly practiced law in Washington D.C. as a partner at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akin_Gump_Strauss_Hauer%26_Feld" title="Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld" style="text-decoration: none; background: none rgb(255, 255, 102);">Akin Gump </a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akin_Gump_Strauss_Hauer%26_Feld" title="Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Strauss Hauer & Feld</a>. For several years, he worked for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Employment_Opportunity_Commission" title="Equal Employment Opportunity Commission" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Equal Employment Opportunity Commission</a>. He started writing articles for publications including the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Post" title="Washington Post" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Washington Post</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weekly_Standard" title="Weekly Standard" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Weekly Standard</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_Page" title="Front Page" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Front Page</a>.He became a fellow of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claremont_Institute" title="Claremont Institute" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Claremont Institute</a>, a conservative institute. Mirengoff formed Power Line, in May 2002 with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hinderaker" title="John Hinderaker" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">John Hinderaker</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_W._Johnson" title="Scott W. Johnson" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Scott W. Johnson</a>,

also fellows of the Claremont Institute. He originally used his

nickname Deacon in posting to the blog. The blog gradually built a

strong following amongst conservative Americans, winning praise from

such notable conservatives as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Lowry" title="Rich Lowry" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Rich Lowry</a>, the editor of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Review" title="National Review" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">National Review</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Steyn" title="Mark Steyn" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Mark Steyn</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin" title="Michelle Malkin" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Michelle Malkin</a>.<h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none;">Political positions[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Power_Line&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Political positions" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>Power Line's authors typically support the conservative agenda, especially the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_war" title="Iraq war" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Iraq war</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Terrorism" title="War on Terrorism" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">War on Terrorism</a>. But they criticized former President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">George W. Bush</a> for being insufficiently conservative on issues including immigration and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_action" title="Affirmative action" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">affirmative action</a>.

The blog advocated the nomination and confirmation of judicially

conservative judges during the Bush administration and regularly

features analysis of court decisions. Power Line often vigorously

criticizes <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_%28United_States%29" title="Democratic Party (United States)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Democrats</a> and

liberals for dishonesty, lack of morals, bad judgment and disloyalty to

the United States. They occasionally attack Republicans for similar

shortcomings, such as Senator John McCain for his position advocating

the US should not "torture" suspected terrorists or "enemy combatants."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Line#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Line#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[8]</a>The

Power Line authors believe the media suffer from systemic liberal bias

because too many reporters and editors are partisan liberals. They

frequently question the integrity of organizations such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associated_Press" title="Associated Press" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Associated Press</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC" title="BBC" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">BBC</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuters" title="Reuters" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Reuters</a>, and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times" title="New York Times" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">New York Times</a>, and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Post" title="Washington Post" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Washington Post</a>.

Power Line authors have repeatedly advocated criminal prosecution of

CIA leakers and media outlets that publish national security

information. They also frequently criticize the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Tribune" title="Star Tribune" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Star Tribune</a> of Minneapolis, home to two of the Power Line authors.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">citation needed</a>]<h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none;">Rathergate<span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;">[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Power_Line&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Rathergate" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>Power Line gained widespread recognition for its 2004 reporting on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killian_documents" title="Killian documents" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Killian documents</a> controversy

relating to a CBS report on George W. Bush's service in the Texas Air

National Guard, starting with a post entitled "The Sixty-First Minute".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Line#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[9]</a> Conservatives (including Power Line, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Review_Online" title="National Review Online" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">National Review Online</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs" title="Little Green Footballs" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Little Green Footballs</a>)

referred to the controversy as "Rathergate". The blogs and their

readers contributed research in assessing the authenticity of the

documents, presenting evidence of forgery. After a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Republic" title="Free Republic" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Free Republic</a> contributor pointed out that the alleged documents used a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_font" title="Proportional font" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">proportional font</a>,

Power Line helped advance the story, triggering coverage by mainstream

media outlets. Dan Rather apologized and resigned from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS" title="CBS" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">CBS</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchor" title="Anchor" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">anchor</a> chair. Power Line became identified with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pajamahadeen" title="Pajamahadeen" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Pajamahadeen</a> when criticized by a former <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_News" title="CBS News" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">CBS News</a> executive.<div class="hatnote" style="font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">See also: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killian_documents" title="Killian documents" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Killian documents</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killian_documents_authenticity_issues" title="Killian documents authenticity issues" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Killian documents authenticity issues</a></div><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none;">Schiavo memo<span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;">[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Power_Line&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Schiavo memo" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>Power Line speculated that the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schiavo_memo" title="Schiavo memo" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Schiavo memo</a> was most likely forged by Democrats as a political dirty trick. When the memo turned out to be written by a Republican aide, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Darling" title="Brian Darling" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Brian Darling</a>,

Power Line acknowledged the revelation, but continued to criticize the

mainstream media for depicting the memo as "a product of the party's

leadership or had an official status."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Line#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[10]</a><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none;">President Carter<span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;">[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Power_Line&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: President Carter" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>Power Line frequently criticizes former US President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter" title="Jimmy Carter" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Jimmy Carter</a>. They have called him a "nut"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Line#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[11]</a> and said in a post about his actions regarding the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_legislative_election,_January_2005" title="Iraqi legislative election, January 2005" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Iraqi election in January 2005</a> that he is "on the other side".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Line#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[12]</a>Hinderaker later wrote<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Line#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[13]</a> that

Carter "started aligning himself with America's enemies", citing the

possibility that Carter asked the Soviet Union to expand Jewish

emigration to help him in the 1980 Presidential election, and added<dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><dd style="margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">In more recent years, Carter has never met an anti-American dictator he didn't like....

[H]e used the occasion of being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to attack

the current American government.... Jimmy Carter is a disgrace. We've

said so before, and we'll continue saying so as long as he merits the

criticism. If you want to learn more, read <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Hayward" title="Steven Hayward" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Steven Hayward</a>'s book The Real Jimmy Carter.</dd></dl><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none;">Judicial nominations<span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;">[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Power_Line&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Judicial nominations" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>
Other coverage<span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; background-color: initial;">[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Power_Line&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Other coverage" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]The bloggers often comment on nominations of federal judges, especially to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="Supreme Court of the United States" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Supreme Court</a>. Mirengoff has suggested that "Republican Senators should feel free to vote against <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Sotomayor" title="Sonia Sotomayor" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Sotomayor</a>.

Half of the Senate Democrats voted against Roberts and a strong

majority voted against Alito...for no other reason than their desire not

to have another 'conservative' on the Supreme Court...Thus, non-liberal

Senators have every right to vote against her for that reason."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Line#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[14]</a>Coverage and commentary by Hinderaker, Johnson, and Mirengoff, all alumni of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_College" title="Dartmouth College" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Dartmouth College</a>, was instrumental in the 2005 election of "insurgent" candidates <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Robinson_%28speechwriter%29" title="Peter Robinson (speechwriter)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Peter Robinson</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Zywicki" title="Todd Zywicki" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Todd Zywicki</a> to the Board of Trustees.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">citation needed</a>]The

blog also covers some lighter material. Johnson regularly posts

historical articles about jazz and other musicians, Mirengoff reported

on European soccer teams and Hinderaker covers beauty pageants.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Line#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[15]</a>Hinderaker also hosts a weekly radio show as part of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Alliance_Radio_Network" title="Northern Alliance Radio Network" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Northern Alliance Radio Network</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota" title="Minnesota" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Minnesota</a> (Johnson left the show in February 2005, but is an occasional guest).<h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none;">Tucson shooting<span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;">[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Power_Line&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Tucson shooting" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>Mirengoff

left the blog shortly after writing a January, 2011 post on a Tucson

memorial service honoring those who died as the result of shootings at

a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabrielle_Giffords" title="Gabrielle Giffords" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Gabrielle Giffords</a> rally; in his post he criticized the inclusion of Native American rituals. The post was later removed, but days later Mirengoff left the blog, and in announcing his exit thanked Hinderaker, Johnson, and the readers for the opportunity to participate in the blog.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Line#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[16]</a>When Mirengoff left the site, Hinderaker and Johnson recruited <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Hayward" title="Steven Hayward" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Steven Hayward</a> to replace him. On Apr 20, 2012, Mirengoff rejoined the site, saying "My return to blogging

coincides with my retirement from the practice of law. With all that

extra time on my hands, I hope to be a better, more productive blogger

this time around."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Line#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[17]</a><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none;">See also[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Power_Line&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: See also" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_media%28U.S.political_right%29" title="Alternative media (U.S. political right)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Alternative media (U.S. political right)</a></li></ul><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none;">References[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Power_Line&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: References" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2><div class="reflist" style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; list-style-type: decimal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><ol class="references" style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: inherit;"><li id="cite_note-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Line#cite_ref-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up^{</a> }Kher, Unmesh (December 19, 2004). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1009913,00.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">"Blogs Have Their Day"</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_magazine" title="Time magazine" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Time magazine</a>.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APower+Line&rft.aufirst=Unmesh&rft.au=Kher%2C+Unmesh&rft.aulast=Kher&rft.btitle=Blogs+Have+Their+Day&rft.date=December+19%2C+2004&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C1009913%2C00.html&rft.pub=%27%27Time%27%27+magazine&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Line#cite_ref-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up^{</a> }Hinderaker, John (February 22, 2007). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2007/02/016571.php" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">"Introducing Power Line AOL"</a>. Power Line.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APower+Line&rft.aufirst=John&rft.au=Hinderaker%2C+John&rft.aulast=Hinderaker&rft.btitle=Introducing+Power+Line+AOL&rft.date=February+22%2C+2007&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.powerlineblog.com%2Farchives%2F2007%2F02%2F016571.php&rft.pub=%27%27Power+Line%27%27&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Line#cite_ref-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up^{</a> }Budoff Brown, Carrie (13 June 2007). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0607/4483_Page2.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">"GOP issues rules to avoid Macaca moments"</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico_%28newspaper%29" title="Politico (newspaper)" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Politico</a>.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APower+Line&rft.au=Budoff+Brown%2C+Carrie&rft.aufirst=Carrie&rft.aulast=Budoff+Brown&rft.btitle=GOP+issues+rules+to+avoid+Macaca+moments&rft.date=13+June+2007&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.politico.com%2Fnews%2Fstories%2F0607%2F4483_Page2.html&rft.pub=%27%27Politico%27%27&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-AEI-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">^ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Line#cite_ref-AEI_4-0" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up to:a</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Line#cite_ref-AEI_4-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">b</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.aei.org/scholar/28" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">"AEI - Scholars - Steven F. Hayward"</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Enterprise_Institute" title="American Enterprise Institute" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">American Enterprise Institute</a>. Retrieved January 5, 2010.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APower+Line&rft.btitle=AEI+-+Scholars+-+Steven+F.+Hayward&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aei.org%2Fscholar%2F28&rft.pub=American+Enterprise+Institute&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Line#cite_ref-5" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ashbrook.org/about/staff/hayward.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">"Ashbrook Staff: Steven Hayward"</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ashbrook_Center_for_Public_Affairs&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs</a>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ashbrook.org/" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">Website</a>. Retrieved January 7, 2010.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APower+Line&rft.btitle=Ashbrook+Staff%3A+Steven+Hayward&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ashbrook.org%2Fabout%2Fstaff%2Fhayward.html&rft.pub=Ashbrook+Center+for+Public+Affairs%3A+%5Bhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.ashbrook.org%2F+Website%5D&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Line#cite_ref-6" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://phillysoc.org/presiden.htm" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">http://phillysoc.org/presiden.htm</a></li><li id="cite_note-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Line#cite_ref-7" style="text-decoration: none; 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By: <a href="http://firedoglake.com/author/phoenix/" title="Posts by Phoenix Woman">Phoenix Woman</a> Saturday July 30, 2011 6:45 am</div></div></td><td style="text-align: right; width: 275px;">
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One of <a href="http://www.truth-out.org/how-shadowy-right-wing-front-groups-engineered-our-national-embrace-debt-reduction-over-job-creation">the key right-wing front groups</a>

behind both the GOP takeover of our state and national legislatures, as

well as the starve-grandma-so-rich-folks-don’t-pay-taxes mindset

driving the ginned-up “deficit crisis” (which <a href="http://www.crewof42.com/cbc/conyers-on-jobs-weve-had-it-lays-out-obama-calls-for-protest-at-white-house">unfortunately President Obama also buys into</a>, in large part as a way to woo Wall Street donations for 2012), is of course ALEC — the <a href="http://firedoglake.com/2011/02/19/come-saturday-morning-alec-the-koch-funded-group-thats-stealing-your-rights-and-your-birthright/">American Legislative Exchange Council</a>.

One of the right wing’s staunchest and most prolific public defenders of ALEC is none other than <a href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2011/07/whos-afraid-of-private-industry.php">John Hinderaker</a> of the PowerLine Blog. However, in his plentiful writings on the subject, there are some words you won’t find — <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/media/2011/03/03/147953/bloggers-kneel-to-koch/">namely, these</a>:

<blockquote><div class="wbq">Fighting back against public scrutiny,

Koch Industries is relying on a small army of conservative bloggers,

reporters, and lobbyists. Chief among them is <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/201008190007">John Hinderaker</a>,

a blogger at the “Powerline Blog.” However, in his now daily defense of

the Koch brothers, Hinderaker has failed to disclose that his law firm

counts Koch Industries as a major client.</div></blockquote>

That’s right, kiddies: John Hinderaker, ALEC’s fair-haired cabin boy, has a wee bit of a disclosure problem:

<blockquote><div class="wbq">Hinderaker is an <a href="http://www.faegre.com/showbio.aspx?Show=2192">attorney</a>

for the law firm Faegre and Benson. Despite his previous role handling

“ethics and professional responsibility” for Faegre, he has failed to

disclose in his Koch-friendly blogging that Koch is a major client for

his firm. Faegre represented Koch Industries in cases related to Koch’s

theft of oil (using the famed “<a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2000/11/27/60II/main252545.shtml">Koch Method</a>” of manipulating oil data) in <a href="http://www.faegre.com/11386">Texas</a> and <a href="http://www.faegre.com/11387">North Dakota</a>, in cases against Koch’s own employees regarding Koch’s <a href="http://www.faegre.com/7091">speculative</a> weather derivatives business and an <a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=XCFFAAAAIBAJ&sjid=R7sMAAAAIBAJ&pg=5702,5323726&dq=charles+s+chadwell+koch&hl=en">environmental</a> <a href="http://www.faegre.com/showrepmatter.aspx?Show=7910&Language=148">whistleblower</a> case, and in a case against a Koch <a href="http://www.faegre.com/showrepmatter.aspx?Show=11487&Language=148">subcontractor</a>. In an <a href="http://www.faegre.com/11385">ongoing case</a>, Hinderaker’s firm <a href="http://www.faegre.com/11385">represents</a>

Koch Industries in a class action suit brought by a group of plaintiffs

regarding oil Koch allegedly stole from wells in Oklahoma. In addition,

Hinderaker has <a href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2011/02/028429.php">defended</a> the Bradley Foundation after <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2011/02/21/zombie-johnbirch-walker/">we profiled</a>

the group and its support for Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI). Hinderaker

never disclosed that he is a fellow of the Claremont Institute, a front

that has received over <a href="http://mediamattersaction.org/transparency/organization/Claremont_Institute/funders">$3 million</a> from the Bradley Foundation.</div></blockquote>

For those of us who’ve watched Hinderaker and his fellow upscale cons

ply their blog trade over the years, this is not surprising in the

least.<a href="http://firedoglake.com/2011/07/30/come-saturday-morning-meet-alecs-fair-haired-cabin-boy-john-hinderaker/">http://firedoglake.com/2011/07/30/come-saturday-morning-meet-alecs-fair-haired-cabin-boy-john-hinderaker/</a>-----Fighting back against public scrutiny, Koch Industries is relying on a

small army of conservative bloggers, reporters, and lobbyists. Chief

among them is <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/201008190007">John Hinderaker</a>,

a blogger at the “Powerline Blog.” However, in his now daily defense of

the Koch brothers, Hinderaker has failed to disclose that his law firm

counts Koch Industries as a major client.

Hinderaker has been on the war path defending Koch. He has tasked

himself with sniping at ThinkProgress posts, spending the last few weeks

<a href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2011/02/028449.php?format=print">defending</a> <a href="http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/05/29/afp-timphillips-astroturf/">forced-abortion lobbyist</a> and Koch operative Tim Phillips, <a href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2011/03/028501.php?format=print">celebrating</a>

Koch’s self-interested propaganda against climate change science, and

generally making juvenile swipes at yours truly, including posting my

picture and calling me a “high school student.” In a bizarre rant

defending “what a great company Koch Enterprises is,” Hinkeraker even

claims ThinkProgress is being paid “millions of dollars by left-wing

billionaires” to report on Koch Industries. But here’s what he didn’t

say:

<blockquote>– Hinderaker Has A Disclosure Problem. Hinderaker is an <a href="http://www.faegre.com/showbio.aspx?Show=2192">attorney</a>