Pam Bondi's brother overwhelmingly defeated in heated race to lead the D.C. Bar
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Employment attorney Diane Seltzer has won a closely watched contest to lead the D.C. Bar Association , defeating securities lawyer Brad Bondi in a race with record turnout.
Seltzer tallied more than 90 percent of the electronic vote with "no issues or irregularities" in the voting system, D.C. Bar CEO Bob Spagnoletti said in a press call Monday.
More than 38,000 people voted in the race, more than five times as many voters in a typical election, he said.
"Member engagement in this election was, to say the least, extraordinary," Spagnoletti said.
The race became a microcosm for the clashes and pressures on the American legal system this year, in part because one of the two top candidates is the younger brother of Attorney General Pam Bondi.
This year, the Justice Department has fired prosecutors who once investigated President Trump and the White House has targeted law firms with punitive executive orders in part because of the lawyers they hired and the clients they represent.
"WE DID IT!!!!!!" Seltzer posted on the site LinkedIn.
Seltzer made the rule of law a key focus of her campaign to lead the bar, which plays no role in attorney discipline matters.
"We're literally afraid of terrible consequences just for doing our jobs," she said at a candidate forum in May. "My priority is making sure that the rule of law is upheld, that we feel that we are safe to do our jobs and that we can go forward every day representing the clients we choose."
Brad Bondi is a prominent lawyer who has represented billionaire Elon Musk and the Trump Media & Technology Group, among other large corporate clients.
He said he wanted to keep the bar group nonpartisan — and separate from the sound and fury of national politics.
In a statement, Bondi said he had hoped the race would focus on free training programs for lawyers and more pro bono work.
"Instead, I am disgusted by how rabid partisans lurched this election into the political gutter, turning a professional campaign into baseless attacks, identity politics, and partisan recrimination," Bondi said. "Never before has a D.C. Bar election been leveraged along partisan lines in this way, an explicit call for members to vote based not on what's best for the institution but according to their political affiliations."
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Losing gracefully is now a politically deadly sin ... pride, envy, anger, sloth, greed, gluttony, and lust can take a backseat.
I wonder what will happen to pam when she loses her job and security detail. where will she end up and what will she do ...
She'll go to work for some think tank where she won't need a law license
Same as the rest of them There is a spot waiting for them at FoxNews.
Ah yes. losing gracefully and humbly, as the Dems have shown us the last few elections, Hillary and Kamala being the best examples
“Ah yes. losing gracefully and humbly, as the Dems have shown us the last few elections.”
Missing the sarcasm tag here big time.
Unless, of course, one believes all the attempts to subvert the 2020 result were simply an illusion. If so, there is no reasoning with one so entirely entrenched in one’s delusions.
Pam Bondi is in the running to be the fourth Mrs Trump.
she's too old, and she's already shacked up with some scientology scam artist ...
not only is she too old but she's past prime baby making
there's probably a dungeon in her basement ...
I think Trump comes from the 'school of thought' that believes the older and wealthier one is the deserved outcome is a much, much younger wife of the arm-candy species.
... maybe, but who are they sleeping with?