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re: That was fast: California Bar Complaint Already Filed Against New Press Secretary

Posted on 10/14/26 at 3:37 pm to
Posted by Mo Jeaux
Member since Aug 2008
65423 posts
Posted on 10/14/26 at 3:37 pm to
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Fair enough.


No, man. Don’t let him get away with it.

It’s a meaningless description.
Posted by IvoryBillMatt
Member since Mar 2020
12984 posts
Posted on 10/14/26 at 3:40 pm to
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No, man. Don’t let him get away with it.


Lol. In case people can't tell, I am almost certainly on the spectrum: it's REALLY hard for me to let go of things...no matter how trivial.
Posted by captainFid
Never apologize to barbarism
Member since Dec 2014
11898 posts
Posted on 10/14/26 at 3:40 pm to
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No
Such
Thing
As
Lawfare


For an attorney, SFP seems ill informed.
Posted by IvoryBillMatt
Member since Mar 2020
12984 posts
Posted on 10/14/26 at 3:41 pm to
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actually spent time thinking about if it is intentional to be this sloppy and unprepared.


Same!
Posted by BoarEd
The Hills
Member since Oct 2015
45134 posts
Posted on 10/14/26 at 3:41 pm to
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How do you know?


How do you not know?
Posted by Mo Jeaux
Member since Aug 2008
65423 posts
Posted on 10/14/26 at 3:46 pm to
She apparently hasn’t practiced law, although there seems to be some confusion on that point.
Posted by Barstools
Atlanta
Member since Jan 2016
12377 posts
Posted on 10/14/26 at 3:48 pm to
Because anyone that graduates law school with a J.D. is a lawyer. An attorney (at law) is someone who passed the bar exam.
Posted by BoarEd
The Hills
Member since Oct 2015
45134 posts
Posted on 10/14/26 at 3:53 pm to
She served as "outside counsel" while working for a law firm in Beijing for two years. From what I can gather, they could potentially pursue her for a first offense misdemeanor over putting the title "legal counsel" on her LinkedIn page. So far however, this is just an ethics complaint and their entire justification for launching said ethics complain is, again, something she put on a LinkedIn page, not from any websites, tax filings, or anything else of that nature.

They have launched a complaint against the lady because she fluffed profile page of hers.

Could they pursue it? Yes. And it would be incredibly foolish to do so. Gavin Newsom CERTAINLY doesn't want to go tit-for-tat with the executive branch right now. I can assure you of that.
Posted by Y.A. Tittle
Member since Sep 2003
112068 posts
Posted on 10/14/26 at 3:57 pm to
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She apparently hasn’t practiced law,


DC is littered with law school grads who you can say this about. Has been since pretty much forever.

It's not even really a criticism or a value statement. It just basically is what it is.

I love how it has become some sort of great gotcha all of a sudden with THIS WOMAN.
Posted by Bjorn Cyborg
Member since Sep 2016
36889 posts
Posted on 10/14/26 at 3:58 pm to
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Were her grades just middling?
Feel sorry for her. Trump admin due diligence is spotty at best.


So are press secretaries generally lawyers? The idea that she never passed the bar seems irrelevant to her current position.
Posted by lsuconnman
Baton rouge
Member since Feb 2007
5811 posts
Posted on 10/14/26 at 3:59 pm to
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She served as "outside counsel" while working for a law firm in Beijing for two years. From what I can gather, they could potentially pursue her for a first offense misdemeanor over putting the title "legal counsel" on her LinkedIn page.


How does California pursue her for an action she claimed to perform in another country?
Posted by Uncommon Idea
Member since Feb 2025
494 posts
Posted on 10/14/26 at 4:04 pm to
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Could they pursue it? Yes. And it would be incredibly foolish to do so. Gavin Newsom CERTAINLY doesn't want to go tit-for-tat with the executive branch right now. I can assure you of that.

It would be foolish to pursue any sort of criminal referral for a unlawful practice of law when Newsom and Becerra are facing criminal investigation/associations at the moment and crime is viewed as rampant and unpunished in California.

That would bring those things into more public attention and stark contrast. Newsom doesn't need more bad news as he attempts to rev up for the 2028 election and Becerra doesn't want negative attention before his CA governor election either.
Posted by BoarEd
The Hills
Member since Oct 2015
45134 posts
Posted on 10/14/26 at 4:05 pm to
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How does California pursue her for an action she claimed to perform in another country?


They wouldn't. She put on her LinkedIn page that she worked as "legal counsel" for Fix California, which is a California based nonprofit founded by Richard Grenell. The work she did in Beijing is separate from that. I only brought it up in response to whether or not she has "practiced law." I don't know what "outside counsel" means in a Beijing law firm, but that's the work she has done, whatever it is, with an actual law firm so would be the closest thing to "practicing law" that I can see on her resume.

This ethics complaint is for shite she has done here in the US. Namely, trying to fluff her LinkedIn page.

You'd think she robbed a frickin bank or something the way they're acting about it.
Posted by Pedropatterstine
Member since Aug 2026
1323 posts
Posted on 10/14/26 at 4:08 pm to
Ivory is a gay pos lib
Posted by IvoryBillMatt
Member since Mar 2020
12984 posts
Posted on 10/14/26 at 4:10 pm to
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The work she did in Beijing is separate from that.


FWIW, she has been pretty clear that she "practiced corporate law in Beijing."

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Posted by BoarEd
The Hills
Member since Oct 2015
45134 posts
Posted on 10/14/26 at 4:12 pm to
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FWIW


Nothing.
Posted by The1TrueTiger
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Member since Apr 2009
2718 posts
Posted on 10/14/26 at 4:16 pm to
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Because anyone that graduates law school with a J.D. is a lawyer. An attorney (at law) is someone who passed the bar exam.


A simple google search would have told you that the first part of your statement this is not true.
Posted by Plaza21
Member since Oct 2026
15 posts
Posted on 10/14/26 at 4:17 pm to
Trump hiring this bimbo is a joke. Like a literal joke. Watching her on the podium dressed as a flight attendant is something SNL would come up with.

Of all the young conservative CEO types that can command a room, Trump hires her..as a conservative, I am done with free spending populist/social media bullshite.

Go hire an adult man, that commands respect, to talk to the press. It’s that simple. Not someone that immediately elicit negative reactions.

Posted by soonerinlOUisiana
South of I-10
Member since Aug 2012
3104 posts
Posted on 10/14/26 at 4:19 pm to
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she didn't put herself in the spotlight until now


So it’s the spotlight, and not the substantive act, that matters. Thanks for clarifying that.
Posted by scmustang
Charleston SC
Member since Nov 2016
192 posts
Posted on 10/14/26 at 4:21 pm to
Six states don't even require the bar exam. Other states are considering going away from it as well. It is probably discriminatory for the DEI graduates that can't pass it who have law degrees they can't use.
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