Tag: Lawyers

Doctors

The Hill, Major medical organizations become resistance force under RFK Jr.

Politico, Doctors ‘fight like hell’ against a second Trump admin: ‘Elections do matter for your health’

AMA: Congress moves health care in wrong direction

AMA statement on Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices

The Guardian, RFK Jr to urge Americans to eat more saturated fats, alarming health experts

The majority of them are pissed, bigly, and upping their political contributions to Democrats. 

On the other hand, RFK Jr.’s positions on food choice are popular in some quarters:

Lawyers

Above the Law, Democrats Cash In As Biglaw Lawyers & Staff Open Their Checkbooks

David Lat, Biglaw Leans Left—And is Moving Further Left, Research Shows: Around 92 percent of the Biglaw campaign contributions analyzed in a new study went to Democrats—a 12-to-1 ratio, up from 6-to-1 four years ago

Washington Post, Nation’s biggest law firms back off from challenging Trump policies

I was a Big Law partner in the 1990s, and I would guess that some 60 percent of contributions at that time went to Republicans and 40 percent to Democrats. How things have changed!

Interestingly, according to the Washington Post, our nation’s largest law firms are most definitely not putting their mouth where their money is.

At least for the most part—with some major exceptions, like the good folks at Jenner & Block, and some others.

Conclusions? Inferences? I Report, You Decide

One important conclusion I draw—and your mileage may differ—is that any “support” from Trump among the elite in our society is pretty damn hollow and brittle. 

When you put enough pressure on something that is hollow and brittle, it tends to break.

All of a sudden.