Surely at this point any lawyer will ask for cash up front?
Fees are calculated on basis of hours spent preparing, hearings attended etc. Hard to calculate in advance.
Surely at this point any lawyer will ask for cash up front?
If I was in that position, I reckon I could find a way. Estimates, and only leaving the balance not the whole bill to the end would be an obvious way.Fees are calculated on basis of hours spent preparing, hearings attended etc. Hard to calculate in advance.
"It's not my job, in a fast-moving case, to go out and investigate every piece of evidence that was given to me. Otherwise, you're never going to write a story. You'll never come to a conclusion."
On Jan. 7, a top GOP lobbyist & fundraiser emailed party officials to quit because he said he was so disgusted. But at major donor retreat last month where Trump was main speaker, he was there. GOP now leads Dems in $$$$ after threats to shun post-Jan. 6.
Judge again rejects Trump’s effort to delay Jan. 6 committee’s bid for his White House records
The first tranche of records Trump is seeking to block includes files from his former chief of staff Mark Meadows, as well as call and visitor logs. An additional set is due to be provided to the committee on Nov. 26.
Chutkan last week heard oral arguments in Trump’s emergency effort to block the committee. On Monday night, before Chutkan ruled on the matter, Trump urged the judge to preemptively block the effect of her ruling in order to give him time to appeal before Friday’s deadline. But Chutkan quickly rejected that request, calling it legally deficient, since she couldn’t block a ruling that hadn’t been issued.
In her 39-page ruling on Tuesday, Chutkan again denied Trump’s effort to delay the committee’s access to his documents, saying his role as a former president gave him no power to overrule the sitting president on matters of executive privilege — particularly on a matter of grave national significance.
“Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not President,” she wrote.
*sigh* I should know better than to hope.I'm still slightly terrified that this whole 1/6 investigation will go nowhere, outside of some random people getting a few weeks in jail, & a literal Insurrection will just be a blip on the radar, but incrementally, I get slight encouragement.
This is one of those incremental times that maybe it matters.