@AlisonFrankel @NatashaBertrand @glennkirschner2 I can't answer with certainty, but I can imagine, based on working w/ Jay since 1988, and for him from 1989 until 2012 when was fired. In that period, Sekulow did not (a) do original research on legal issues we handled, first at CASE, then at ACLJ, (b) draft legal arguments.
@AlisonFrankel @NatashaBertrand @glennkirschner2 In fact, while teaching a course on Litigating Federal Civil Rights Claims, I was discussion the problem of plagiarism in legal writing, and the related problem of ghost-writing of legal products.
@AlisonFrankel @NatashaBertrand @glennkirschner2 One of my Regent University School of Law students interrupted to tell the story of Sekulow's Regent doctoral dissertation. He claimed that he researched and drafted the dissertation draft for Sekulow. Seemed entirely plausibe to me, Jay uses others to write ALL THE TIME.
@AlisonFrankel @NatashaBertrand @glennkirschner2 On constitutional law, religious liberties, and pro-life matters, Jay depended on Walter Weber, a Princeton undergrad, Yale law grad, or (until my firing) me to draft S.Ct. petitions, oppositions to petitions, merits briefs, and amici briefs.
@AlisonFrankel @NatashaBertrand @glennkirschner2 On national security issues, he often relied on Skip Ash out the Virginia Beach office. Weber and I were located in the $5 million office on Capitol Hill.
@AlisonFrankel @NatashaBertrand @glennkirschner2 Now, I'm no dummy, Sekulow was, so to speak, our "rain-maker" and the division of labor was really typical, the guy who had the "face" and the guys that had the intellect, skill, and discipline to reason and to write legal argument well.
@AlisonFrankel @NatashaBertrand @glennkirschner2 So, you have to know -- if you worked w/ Jay for a quarter century -- he has a team of researching and writing counsel, literally even to the drafting of bullet points for media appearances.
@AlisonFrankel @NatashaBertrand @glennkirschner2 @threadreaderapp please roll up
