The Judge Wolf, Healey, First Lady Lydgate connection
Lawyer for the First Lady got a judgeship and now Wolf joins a law firm working for Lydgate's sister organization
When U.S. District Court Judge Mark Wolf departed the bench in a huff recently over Orange Man Bad he ended up at the law firm of Todd & Weld.
Todd & Weld, according to the SHNS, recently “started working with Democracy Defenders Fund, co-founded by Norm Eisen, and filed amicus briefs on behalf of retired judges and prosecutors in the Trump administration’s prosecutions of James Comey and Letitia James.”
Oh really?
Democracy Defenders Fund will proudly tell you they've “been helping lead the successful national court fights against the Trump Administration, helping secure multiple landmark orders against its authoritarian moves.”
Norm Eisen also founded the States United Democracy Center in Washington DC that employs the First Lady of the Commonwealth Joanna Lydgate as CEO at approximately $400,000 a year.
Governor Healey recently appointed Gillian Feiner, the Senior Counsel at States United Democracy Center, to be an Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court.
The lawyer for the First Lady got a judgeship and now Wolf joins a law firm working for Lydgate's sister organization.
Got it?
Absolutely organic, not orchestrated.
One other question: SHNS also reports that Todd & Weld's Howard Cooper said “talks started over the summer about Wolf leaving the bench for the reasons he eventually outlined in The Atlantic.”
How does a law firm actively recruit a sitting federal judge without any conflict or appreance of conflict? I'm sure everything is completely on the level, but how technically is that done?