Porter, RW

blinded:

oppos res for  bush.quayle

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Behind Davis and Cammarata as they prepared for that momentous day was the same trio of youngish lawyers who had first assisted their representation of Jones -- Jerome Marcus, of the Philadelphia firm Berger & Montague; George Conway III, a partner at New York's Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; and Richard Porter, the former Quayle aide who had joined Kenneth Starr's firm, Kirkland & Ellis, in its Chicago home office.   During the early eighties Porter and Marcus had attended the University of Chicago Law School, coming under the influence of its strongly libertarian faculty.

pal richard w porter (kirkland and ellis)   set up tripp -jones lawyer meet hunt 338

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p. 338-339

The man who set up Tripp's long-awaited rendezvous with the new Jones attorneys from Dallas was Richard W. Porter, the conservative activist with an expanding resume:   former Bush White house aide, adviser to Vice President Dan Quayle, and Republican opposition researcher; fellow University of Chicago Law School alumnus and close friend of Jerome Marcus, with whom he had arranged continuing legal assistance for Paula Jones; law partner of Kenneth W. Starr at Kirkland & Ellis; lawyer and anti-Clinton researcher for investment banker Peter W. Smith, who talked to him about negotiations with the Arkansas state troopers in troopergate; and now conduit to the Jones team for Linda Tripp and Lucianne Goldberg.

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Even if the participants' accounts are taken at face value, it was surely no accident that the January 8 dinner was omitted from the Starr Report.  For Rosenzweig to be meeting with a clique of attorneys who had helped the Jones team was bad enough.  But the participation of Porter, as Starr's law partner, presented the OIC with ethical problems.  Avoiding even the appearance of impropriety was the whole point of the Independent Counsel Act.  It specifically states that "any person associated with a [law] firm with which such independent counsel is associated may not represent in any matter any person involved in any investigation or prosecution."

Moreover, as Clinton attorney David Kendall pointed out when Porter's role came to light, by law "a legal representation of a client by one partner is attributable to all partners."

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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/01/politics/politicsspecial1/01federalist.html?pagewanted=all">http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/01/politics/politicsspecial1/01federalist.html?pagewanted=all</a>

With an annual budget of $5.5 million, the society has benefited from decades of support from prominent conservative organizations, including the John M. Olin, Sarah Scaife, and Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundations.

In the 1990's, three Federalist Society lawyers, Jerome M. Marcus, Richard W. Porter and George T. Conway, played important but covert roles in helping Paula Corbin Jones sue President Clinton for sexual harassment. They also worked behind the scenes to disclose Mr. Clinton's affair with a White House intern, Monica Lewinsky.

Kenneth W. Starr, the independent counsel whose report led to Mr. Clinton's impeachment, is a prominent member of the society, as is Theodore B. Olson, who successfully argued Bush v. Gore, the case that stopped the Florida recount in 2000 and ensured Mr. Bush's election.

According to the Senate Judiciary Committee, 15 of the 41 appeals court judges confirmed under Mr. Bush have identified themselves as members of the group. Complaining that the society serves as "the secret handshake" of Mr. Bush's judicial nominees, Senator Richard J. Durbin, an Illinois Democrat on the committee, has repeatedly questioned them about the group's mission statement. Their answers, he said, have "ranged from the amusing to the preposterous."