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January 12, 2021 at 5:16 PM
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No single event triggered the assault on the Capitol last week, but one of the more significant signposts was the wide dissemination of the cockamamie theory that the vice president of the United States wields the hidden constitutional power to just ignore electoral college votes. It’s a measure of authority that, if it existed, one assumes John Adams would’ve liked to have known about. Alas, it does not exist.
So how did something this stupid get into the right-wing ether? Donald Trump promoted it of course. But how did Donald Trump become convinced of this nonsense…
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With 2020 almost in the rearview mirror, we thought it would be a good time to solicit nominations for Above the Law’s annual
LAWYER OF THE YEAR competition. Which lawyers made major headlines during the year that was?
We’ll conduct the competition as we’ve done for the past decade. Please submit your nominees to us by email (subject line “Lawyer of the Year 2020”). We will review them and pick a slate of finalists, and then you’ll vote on them in a reader poll.
The winner will join an august group of past LOTY honorees, including Chief Justice John Roberts (2012) and President Barack Obama (2008). But the contest has room for “fun” as well. Just last year, Christopher Hook, a lawyer who told a Biglaw partner to “eat a bowl of dicks” during settlement negotiations took home the grand prize, and in 2015, our champion was a young Texas lawyer by the name of Bryan Wilson better known to the world as the “Law Hawk,” famous for his irreverent and
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