Does Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth “Sitting Bull” Warren have a “law license problem”?
Must-read via the invaluable @LegInsurrection: Elizabeth Warren’s law license problem==> http://t.co/WnwqxAQc
— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) September 24, 2012
Wow. Elizabeth Warren can't help being a fraud. Not even licensed in Massachussetts. http://t.co/vNbjgLlE #tcot #p2
— RBe (@RBPundit) September 24, 2012
Darn fine investigatory work by @LegInsurrection on this story about Warren not being licensed to practice law in MA http://t.co/7wWHK128
— Sarah Rumpf (@rumpfshaker) September 24, 2012
Once again, blogger and law professor William Jacobson takes on the investigative work the mainstream media won’t touch.
Warren represented not just Travelers, but numerous other companies starting in the late 1990s working out of and using her Harvard Law School office in Cambridge, which she listed as her office of record on briefs filed with various courts. Warren, however, never has been licensed to practice law in Massachusetts.
As detailed below, there are at least two provisions of Massachusetts law Warren may have violated. First, on a regular and continuing basis she used her Cambridge office for the practice of law without being licensed in Massachusetts. Second, in addition to operating an office for the practice of law without being licensed in Massachusetts, Warren actually practiced law in Massachusetts without being licensed.
As Jacobson points out, Warren is not licensed to practice law in Massachusetts, though she used her Cambridge office address when filing Supreme Court briefs. Does that constitute a violation of the law?
Here's the full background from @LegInsurrection on Warren's activity. Does this rise to level of practicing law? http://t.co/v2j0oyQl
— Ben Domenech (@bdomenech) September 24, 2012
"Warren’s activities on behalf of Travelers… would seem to fall easily within this definition of practicing law." http://t.co/v2j0oyQl
— Ben Domenech (@bdomenech) September 24, 2012
Read the whole thing and decide if Fauxcahontas speak with forked tongue. Either way, the opportunity to mock Elizabeth “Running Joke” Warren is irresistible.
Does this make @ElizabethforMA the first fake lawyer of color with high cheekbones in MA? #MAsen
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) September 24, 2012
A conservative previews the left-wing push-back:
Oh come on. Everyone knows law licenses are racist against Native Americans.
— Matt Exotic (@MattCover) September 24, 2012
If Lie-awatha will pass herself off as a licensed Cherokee lawyer, what else is she hiding?
https://twitter.com/ChrisBarnhart/statuses/250250772242116608
Liz Warren is a lot more interesting because of what she isn't.
— John Hayward (@Doc_0) September 24, 2012
One thing's for certain. Elizabeth Warren's got a #liecense.
— J.P. Freire (@JPFreire) September 24, 2012
Seriously, where does she get this stuff?
Fauxcahontas was inspired to practice law w/o a license by something Dick Blumenthal told her when they were serving in Vietnam.
— SFK (@stephenkruiser) September 24, 2012
So Elizabeth Warren didn't have a MA law license, but she believed she did in good faith based on "family lore."
— Razor (@hale_razor) September 24, 2012
Warren admitted this morning that she is not licensed to practice law in Massachusetts.
@mkhammer @bdomenech This should be the entire interview. http://t.co/S0ml9p5d
— Russell Heller (@fpsuper) September 24, 2012
But there remains some question about whether Warren broke the law while filing briefs from her 1/32 authentic Cambridge wigwam.
Was Warren doing Federal or State case work? That's the real issue people.
— Chris Connolly (@CBConnolly) September 24, 2012
A lawyer writes in, saying Elizabeth Warren's lack of a MA law license is a non-issue for federal cases: http://t.co/G1k2rQkt
— Jim Geraghty (@jimgeraghty) September 24, 2012
One of Jim Geraghty’s readers writes:
You do not need to be licensed to practice law in Massachusetts to practice law in federal courts located in Massachusetts or anywhere else. Federal courts decide who can practice before them, and individual states can’t tell federal courts that an attorney cannot practice before them. It’s that whole supremacy clause thing. Constitution 101 and all that.
Other lawyers weigh in:
No, I don't see the problem with Warren's law practice. These were federal cases. So long as she was admitted to the fed. court, she's fine.
— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) September 24, 2012
@CBConnolly @LegInsurrection if she's giving legal advice to clients in MA then she needs to be licensed to practice here.
— Sarah Rumpf (@rumpfshaker) September 24, 2012
We’re sure the loyal lapdog media will be all over this in 3 … 2 … never.
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