Where
does
one
turn
if
you’re
a
prominent
defendant
who
allegedly
lost
massive
amounts
of
money
on
poorly
conceived
bets,
engaged
in
false
bookkeeping,
misled
lending
banks,
while
paying
off
the
multiple
women
he
had
affairs
with?
The
correct
answer
is
Donald
Trump’s
defense
team,
whose
client
managed
to
embody
ALL
of
that
criminal
activity
(and
more!)
and
slide
right
out
of
it
unscathed.
And
sucking
up
to
lawyers
with
the
president’s
ear
when
it
comes
time
to
beg
for
a
pardon
is
at
least
as
useful
as
writing
an
obsequious
essay
in
the
New
York
Times
about
winning
Wisconsin
being
basically
the
same
as
an
acquittal.
Supreme
Court
litigator
and
SCOTUSblog
co-founder
Tom
Goldstein
found
himself
on
the
wrong
end
of
a
harsh
criminal
indictment
yesterday.
The
allegations
of
high
stakes
gambling,
$15+
million
in
personal
debts,
and
paying
four
mistresses
from
the
firm
coffers
approached
“Wayne
Brady
on
Chappelle’s
Show”
levels
of
surprising
pimp
turns.
Josh
Blackman
has
a
piece
in
the
Volokh
Conspiracy
today
comparing
Goldstein’s
oral
arguments
before
the
Supreme
Court
with
the
timeline
of
the
indictment
and
suggests
that
he
was
losing
millions
and
then
turning
around
and
arguing
twice
before
the
Supreme
Court
in
the
course
of
a
month
all
while
juggling
multiple
relationships
and,
folks,
this
is
what
peak
performance
looks
like.
Facing
all
these
charges,
the
self-professed
Democrat
—
as
of
his
NYT
essay
arguing
that
the
criminal
justice
system
should
yield
to
the
electoral
college
—
ran
right
to
Trump’s
team.
Lauro
and
Kise,
probably
the
only
personal
Trump
lawyers
who
aren’t
expected
to
take
over
the
Justice
Department,
successfully
ran
out
the
clock
on
Trump’s
various
criminal
cases.
While
Kise stumbled
in
the
New
York
hush
money
case,
it
didn’t
matter
when
the
court
sentenced
Trump
to
the
criminal
justice
equivalent
of
a
divorced
dad
handing
his
kid
two
bottles
of
Jack
and
the
keys
to
his
car.
Meanwhile,
in
the
D.C.
interference
case,
the
Supreme
Court
delivered
a
solid
for
the
team
in
rewriting
the
Constitution
to
retroactively
legalize
coups
and
in
the
Florida
classified
documents
case
Aileen
Cannon
did
Aileen
Cannon
stuff.
All
in
all,
a
pretty
successful
run.
Which
is
not
necessarily
a
knock
on
their
lawyering
skills
in
a
straight
up
litigation
—
it’s
comically
clear
Kise
wasn’t
in
full
control
of
the
New
York
case
—
but
as
they
say,
good
lawyers
know
the
law
and
great
lawyers
know
someone
with
federal
pardon
power.
Making
this
—
if
the
indictment
is
to
be
believed
—
the
best
bet
Goldstein’s
made
in
awhile.
Earlier:
SCOTUSblog
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