Ruth Marcus: The curious case of the strange man who was nearly attorney general

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Brilliant line from ⁦@RuthMarcus⁩ on Jeffrey Clark’s audacious responses to DC Bar grievance: “The document reads like something the Federalist Society would submit if it had created an artificial intelligence program to draft legal pleadings.”

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Opinion | The curious case of the strange man who was nearly attorney general
Can the man Trump nearly named attorney general keep his law license?
8:17 PM · Sep 17, 2022

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/16/jeffrey-clark-legal-trouble/

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The threat of losing his law license might be the least of Jeffrey Bossert Clark’s problems. Clark is the environmental lawyer who came just one contentious Oval Office meeting away from being installed as attorney general in the waning days of the Trump administration.

In June of this year, his home was searched by armed agents of the Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General and his electronic devices seized as part of a criminal investigation into false statements, conspiracy and obstruction of justice.

The next month, the D.C. bar launched disciplinary proceedings against him.

Even with all that, Clark’s astonishing, over-the-top response to the D.C. bar probe, released Monday, offers jarring new evidence of how bonkers the man who almost became attorney general actually is.

Clark was assistant attorney general for environment and natural resources and who, in the final weeks of the Trump administration, was put in charge of the civil division. President Donald Trump wanted him in the top job because Clark — unlike the rest of the department’s hierarchy — was eager and willing to pursue Trump’s false claims that he had won the election.

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