'Atrocious': Biden Renominates Chevron Lawyer First Chosen by Trump

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Human rights attorney SDonziger noted that Biden's pick for the federal bench 'was paid millions... to help jail me, attack Indigenous peoples, and cover up a massive oil spill in the Amazon.'

"Rearden's corporate clients have included Home Depot, Uber, Lehman Brothers, Barclays Capital, and Patriarch Partners," noted, which also spotlighted the lawyer's political donations to erstwhile Republican presidential candidates Chris Christie and Rudy Giuliani."Gillibrand played a crucial role in the nomination of Rearden—who fundraised at Gibson Dunn for the senator's campaigns—to serve on the federal bench," Fishman observed."In a sworn affidavit...

"Sen. Gillibrand has refused for a long time to even investigate my unprecedented Chevron-orchestrated detention, much less speak out about it," Donziger told."Obviously, the senator's extensive connections to big-money donors with ties to Chevron might be affecting her decision to ignore what is an obvious human rights violation on U.S. soil involving one of her constituents.

 

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