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Trump lawyer barreling toward lifetime bench seat despite 'disturbing' red flags: experts
Trump’s Lawyer, the Senate’s Stamp, and the Quiet Conversion of Law Into LoyaltyA Lifetime Seat for a Trump AdvocateJustin D. Smith, one of Donald Trump’s lawyers in the E. Jean Carroll litigation, is on track for a lifetime seat on the Eighth Circuit after the Senate advanced him by unanimous consent. That is the basic fact pattern. The more revealing fact is what surrounds it: a nominee who is still actively representing Trump in a case tied to a civil judgment for sexual abuse and defamation, and whose written answers to senators reportedly contain serious factual distortions about the…
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