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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">===</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">oops see liar lawyr (bad actors)</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">see Law firms</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">i'm sure i don't have close to all of them</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> =</font></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">y mail 5 23</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">scotus ~ appeal</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Here is a look into the letter to the UN signed by<b> 16 prominent lawyers, including Natali Segovia, Marty Garbus, Michael Tigar, Professor Charles Nesson of Harvard, Ron Kuby, Nadine Strossen:</b></span><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); outline: none !important;" /><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); outline: none !important;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); outline: none !important;"><span style="outline: none !important;">“To this day, Mr.<b> Donziger</b> and his family, including his wife Laura Miller and 16-year-old son Matthew, live under the constant threat of further contempt charges that could be levied by Judge Kaplan, the conflicted presiding judge who continues to maintain he has the legal authority to appoint Chevron to prosecute Mr. Donziger directly. Mr. Donziger and his family live with the knowledge that the same forces that have worked for years to destroy them could decide to launch even further attacks to try to silence Mr. Donziger for good. To combat such an injustice and to comply with the Opinion, the United States government (through President Biden) should exercise its pardon power to void Mr. Donziger’s conviction.”</span></span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and-practice/u-s-oil-industry-trade-group-changes-lawyers-as-gas-prices-soar" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">https://news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and-practice/u-s-oil-industry-trade-group-changes-lawyers-as-gas-prices-soar</a></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">m<span style="background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242); letter-spacing: 0.1px;">arch 17, 2022, </span></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: 700; text-align: inherit; text-transform: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.1px; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: 700; text-align: inherit; text-transform: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.1px; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);">Ryan Meyers replaces Paul Afonso at American Petroleum Institute</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; text-align: inherit; text-transform: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.1px; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trade group copes with fallout from the Russia-Ukraine conflagration</font></span></div><article data-test="article-body" class="TheArticle_article_1WieB" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; border-bottom: none; padding: 12px 0px 0px; margin: 12px 0px 0px; border-top: 1px solid rgb(151, 151, 151); grid-area: 5 / 1 / span 1 / span 15;"><div class="" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="QvNnGjy8J7gi" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div style="box-sizing: inherit;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 16px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 24px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; padding: 0px; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The American Petroleum Institute, the largest lobbying group for the U.S. oil and gas industry, has promoted from within to replace its former legal chief, Paul Afonso.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 16px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 24px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; padding: 0px; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Ryan Meyers takes over as the new senior vice president and general counsel,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);"> the organization </span><a href="https://www.api.org/news-policy-and-issues/news/2022/03/16/api-names-ryan-meyers-svp-and-general-counsel" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242); box-sizing: inherit;">announced</a><span style="background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);"> Wednesday. Meyers has been vice president and deputy general counsel for the Washington-based association.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 16px; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242); box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 24px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; padding: 0px; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A bounce-back message from Afonso’s work email address stated that he’s “no longer with API.” Media representatives for the organization didn’t respond to a request for comment about his departure. Afonso, <a href="https://www.bloomberglaw.com/product/blaw/document/XAOAGJ3G000000" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">hired by API</a> in late 2019, also didn’t respond to an inquiry sent to his personal email.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 16px; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242); box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 24px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; padding: 0px; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The institute has been grappling with <a href="https://news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-and-energy/deja-vu-for-oil-markets-as-biden-calls-out-surge-in-pump-prices" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">rising U.S. gas prices</a> as it battles the Biden administration over calls to <a href="https://news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-and-energy/bidens-demands-for-oil-collide-with-drillers-reining-in-output" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">ramp up production</a> to offset shortfalls caused in part by a <a href="https://news.bloomberglaw.com/bloomberg-government/hill-energy-briefing-lawmakers-reach-deal-to-ban-russian-oil" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">ban on Russian oil</a>. The group’s chief executive officer, Mike Sommers, <a href="https://news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-and-energy/biden-administration-misusing-facts-on-oil-permits-api-says" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">criticized</a> the administration this month over oil permits.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 16px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 24px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; padding: 0px; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">API wants the U.S. government <a href="https://news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-and-energy/biden-called-to-unleash-shale-to-counter-deepening-energy-crisis" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">embrace shale</a> as a means of easing production woes. Oil industry executives and U.S. officials <a href="https://news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-and-energy/u-s-oil-executives-meet-with-biden-officials-as-crude-soars" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">met this month</a> to discuss the growing energy crisis against the backdrop of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.</font></p><h2 style="background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242); box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 8px; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 28px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Changing of the Guard</font></h2><p style="margin: 0px 0px 16px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 24px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; padding: 0px; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Meyers, a former counsel to now retired Sen. <a href="https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/kyl-says-hell-recuse-himself-on-lobbied-issues-corrected" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">Jon Kyl</a> (R-Ariz.), was a longtime deputy general counsel at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce before joining API in 2020.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 16px; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242); box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 24px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; padding: 0px; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He started his career as an associate at <b>Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher</b> in Washington before going on to serve as general counsel to former Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R-N.C.). Meyers also spent time at the <b>Commerce Department and Treasury Department during the second administration of President George W. Bush.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 16px; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242); box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 24px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; padding: 0px; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Ryan has become a trusted adviser to me and many others,” Sommers said in a statement. “Ryan’s broad experience in Washington and across government will serve API well.”</font></p></div></div></div></div></article><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">_{CPP</font></p><p>}<a href="http://littlesis.org/maps/872-lawyers-suing-the-epa-over-clean-power-plan"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">http://littlesis.org/maps/872-lawyers-suing-the-epa-over-clean-power-plan</font></a>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">fool me twice, otto: </font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Judging by Congress, the answer increasingly seems to be no. In an age when most major public policy challenges revolve around science, less than 2 percent of congresspersons have professional backgrounds in it. The membership of the 112th Congress, which ran from January 2011 to January 2013, included <span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">one physicist, one chemist, six engineers, and one microbiologist.</span><sup>5</sup></font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In contrast, how many representatives and senators do you suppose have law degrees—and whom many suspect avoided college science classes like the plague? <span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Two hundred twenty-two</span></font></p>