President Donald Trump, on the eve of facing a historic second impeachment trial for inciting the insurrection at the US Capitol last week, is having trouble finding a legal team to defend him. Allies of the outgoing president have been canvassing Washington’s legal landscape looking for representation but so far are coming up short. Lawyers who defended him in the previous impeachment trial, including Jay Sekulow and White House Counsel Pat Cipollone, have said no this time, according to people familiar with the matter. Other lawyers who have defended Trump at times, including former Florida attorney general Pam Bondi, Eric Herschmann, Pat Philbin and Marc Kasowitz aren’t interested in joining a team this time, the people said. Some of the lawyers who don’t want a role have privately said what Trump did was indefensible.
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Robert Rancourt was recently appointed to the Board of Directors of the Addiction Policy Forum. As a member of the board, Rancourt joins leaders across the fields of prevention, treatment, recovery, criminal justice, and advocacy who work to support patients, families, and communities impacted by addiction.
Since his appointment as a Minnesota district court judge in 2002, Rancourt has championed improving how the judicial system responds to addiction. In September 2020, he was assigned to serve statewide as senior judge for Minnesota.
“I am honored to serve on the Board of Directors of the Addiction Policy Forum,” said Rancourt. “This is a wonderful organization that is leading the fight against the deadly consequences of addiction.”
We have all seen the effects of a growing tide of portals and outlets seeking to silence, deplatform, limit, or outright remove specific voices and sources from public view. The justifications are numerous, and usually more hysterical than lucid. What is truly perplexing however is when a member of the media itself - a purported journalist no less - actively calls for the silencing of others in their field. Welcome, fair-minded citizens, to the vocational calling of Oliver Darcy, from CNN.
Darcy works in tandem with the infamous media hall monitor from their Reliable Sources program call him Stelter The Lesser to put out their daily newsletter. In the latest edition Ollie engages in what has been his stock in trade, the bizarre practice of a journalist promoting censorship. Most would think that someone whose very vocation is rooted entirely in the 1st Amendment would value above all else the freedom of expression and the open exchange of ideas in the public square. Not Darcy