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Amazing story of a near-coup at DOJ. https://twitter.com/ktbenner/status/1352779951049682947
Worth noting, though, that the "unassuming" Jeffrey Clark, who "no one really knew outside" DOJ and who was scheming with Trump to take top job, was also chief legal defender of Trump's efforts to dismantle key environmental laws. https://news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-and-energy/divisive-top-trump-environment-lawyer-reviews-challenging-job
Clark was well-known (and loathed) by the environmental attorneys who were trying to protect our nation's bedrock conservation and climate laws and agencies. “Mr. Clark wasn’t kicking tires, he was slashing them” @sambhavsankar @Earthjustice
Also notable: Clark had a long history of attacking #climate science and #climateaction before he was elevated to his role as the nation's top environmental attorney https://slate.com/technology/2017/06/this-is-not-going-to-be-good-for-climate-change.html
No surprise then, that someone who spent his career denying climate science would get involved in efforts to overturn will of the voters in support of the "Big Lie" about election fraud. These things are linked. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/13/climate/the-capitol-riot-and-climate-disinformation.html
. @mlavelles has a great thread up exploring Clark's history as a #climate denier and advocate for Big Oil and fossil fuels, before he tried to take over DOJ to support Trump's coup. https://twitter.com/mlavelles/status/1353014286029893632
