"Jones Day Made Trump" - Live at Harvard with David Enrich

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🗓️ 7 February 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Recorded live at Harvard University's Corporate Capture of the Legal System conference, we're talking about Jones Day. The law firm jumps into bed with all manner of villains with the justification that "everyone deserves representation." But as David Enrich, business investigations editor at The New York Times writes in his new book “Servants of the Damned: Giant Law Firms, Donald Trump, and the Corruption of Justice," what Jones Day actually does goes far beyond "representation."

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0:00.0	This is a mic check so I'm going to tell Rachel what I ate for lunch. I ate pizza from Harvard
0:06.0	Law School. Thank you so much. Hey everyone, this is Leon from Fiasco and Prologue projects.
0:16.3	On this week's episode of Five to Four, Peter, Riannan, and Michael are joined by New York Times
0:21.6	Business Investigations Editor David Enrich, live at Harvard. They're talking about Jones Day,
0:27.2	a powerful law firm that helped Donald Trump shape his 2016 campaign and represented Trump
0:32.9	in lawsuits trying to stop the vote count in Pennsylvania in 2020. Jones Day partner Don McGann,
0:39.1	who served as White House Council while on hiatus from the firm,
0:42.1	hand selected the list of potential Supreme Court nominees that Trump would ultimately draw from.
0:47.1	That list included Justice's Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Coney Barrett. This is Five to Four,
0:52.8	a podcast about how much the Supreme Court sucks.
1:01.2	Thanks. Thanks so much. Before we start, I just wanted to say something really quick.
1:07.6	Might change the tone a little bit in here today, but Tyree Nichols, a photographer and
1:14.1	escape border who lived in Memphis was beaten to death by Memphis police officers a couple of weeks ago.
1:20.8	Many in the room, I'm sure, have heard about this maybe just in the past 24 hours because
1:26.0	Bodycam footage was released yesterday. I wanted to say his name and honor Mr. Nichols' life
1:32.9	and the loss of his life, even though it isn't what we're talking about here.
1:37.0	And maybe just point out, you know, to connect it to the conference this weekend,
1:41.1	that corporate capture of the legal system in addition to everything that's been discussed
1:47.2	over the course of this conference. It also contributes to turning a blind eye and many legal
1:52.1	spaces that relate to the public, that relate to our rights, that relate to the people, right?
1:57.9	Corporate capture of the legal system contributes to the perpetuation, the permission given,
2:03.4	the institutional upholding of police brutality. People die as a result. So rest in peace.
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