Jonathan Kanter (Connecting the Dots: Jonathan Kanter, Soros, Think Tanks, DOJ, FBI, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, NAACP, ACLU, American Constitution Society, Obama & the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit All Networking)
Career
From 1998 to
2000, Kanter served as an attorney in the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). From 2000 to 2007, he was
an associate at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson.
He was an associate at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft from
2007 to 2016. In August 2016, Kanter became a partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton &
Garrison. He
founded the Kanter Law Group in 2020.
Throughout his
career, Kanter has been a critic of Big Tech.[5][6] Kanter
has questioned the value of the dominant "consumer welfare standard" in antitrust policy, arguing
that the purpose of antitrust enforcement "is not to decide what is
maximally efficient, but to enforce the law".[7] Kanter
has been described as being associated with the anti-monopolistic New Brandeis movement.[8][9]
Biden
administration
On July 20, 2021,
Kanter was nominated to serve as assistant attorney general in the Department of Justice Antitrust Division.[10] His
nomination has been endorsed by nine former assistant attorneys general for the
Antitrust Division, including Makan Delrahim, who
served in the position under Donald Trump.[11]
On October 6,
2021, a hearing on his nomination was held before the Senate Judiciary Committee.[12] On
October 28, 2021, his nomination was favorably reported out of committee.[13] His
nomination was confirmed by the United States Senate by a vote of 68–29.
Connecting
the Dots:
Jonathan Kanter who served in the position under Donald Trump and is
the United States Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division at the U.S. Department of Justice
(DOJ) for the Biden Administration
and is a partner at Paul, Weiss,
Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison.
Theodore V.
Wells Jr. is a partner at Paul,
Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and
a co-chair emeritus for the NAACP Legal
Defense & Educational Fund.
Adrian W. DeWind was
a partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton
& Garrison and a director at
the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational
Fund.
Vanita Gupta has served as an Assistant Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, a
deputy legal director of the American Civil
Liberties Union (ACLU) and is the United
States Associate Attorney General at the U.S.
Department of Justice (DOJ) for
the Biden Administration.
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2013/10/obama-to-nominate-jeh-johnson-as-new.html
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.
George Soros is the
chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open
Society and the founder &
chairman for the Open Society Foundations.
Open Society Foundations was a funder for the American Constitution Society.
Dawn E. Johnsen is
a director at the American Constitution
Society, was the director nominee, Office of Legal Counsel for
the Barack Obama administration and counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
Caroline
Fredrickson is the president for the American Constitution Society and was the Washington legislative
director for the American
Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
Eric H. Holder Jr. was
a board member for the American Constitution
Society and the attorney
general at the U.S. Department of
Justice (DOJ) for the Barack Obama administration.
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is a division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).
Robert Raben was
a director at the American Constitution
Society and an assistant
attorney general for the U.S. Department of
Justice (DOJ).
Walter E.
Dellinger III is a board of adviser’s member for the American Constitution Society and was the acting solicitor general for
the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).
Christine A.
Varney is a director at the American
Constitution Society and was
an assistant attorney general for the U.S.
Department of Justice (DOJ).
Philippa
Scarlett was a director at the American
Constitution Society and a
deputy associate attorney general for the U.S.
Department of Justice (DOJ).
Janet Reno was a
board of adviser’s member for the American
Constitution Society and an
attorney general for the U.S. Department of
Justice (DOJ).
Debo P. Adegbile is
a director at the American Constitution
Society and was an assistant
attorney general nominee for the U.S.
Department of Justice (DOJ).
Faith Elizabeth
Gay is a board of advisor’s member for the American Constitution Society and was an attorney at Sidley Austin LLP.
Michelle Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin LLP, the president for the
Barack Obama Administration and Martha L. Minow’s student.
Newton N. Minow is a
senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP and Martha
L. Minow’s father.
Martha L. Minow is Newton N. Minow’s daughter, Barack Obama was
her student and she was David Bazelon’s clerk.
David Bazelon’s
clerk was Martha L. Minow and was a judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
Abner J. Mikva was
the chief judge for the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, is a friend of Newton N. Minow and
a board of adviser’s member for the American
Constitution Society.
Open Society Foundations was a funder for the American Constitution Society.
George Soros is the
founder & chairman for the Open Society
Foundations.
Goodwin Liu was
a director at the American Constitution
Society and Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s clerk.
Ruth Bader
Ginsburg’s clerk was Goodwin Liu,
a justice for the U.S. Court of Appeals for
the D.C. Circuit and a
justice for the U.S. Supreme Court.
Merrick Garland is
the chief judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, the justice
nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court,
supervised Justice Dept. and a
principal associate deputy attorney general for the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is a division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).
Resources:
Past Research
Obama to nominate Jeh
Johnson as new Homeland Security secretary (Past
Research on the NAACP Legal Defense Fund & Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton
& Garrison)
FRIDAY, OCTOBER
18, 2013
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2013/10/obama-to-nominate-jeh-johnson-as-new.html
ACLU admits in
testimony that it wrote Amber Heard’s op-ed against Johnny Depp; timed release
with ‘Aquaman’ (Connecting the Dots to Soros) (Past
Research on the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
FRIDAY, MAY 27,
2022
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2022/05/aclu-admits-in-testimony-that-it-wrote.html
This Network is Pure
Evil (Past Research on the American Constitution
Society & the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ))
MONDAY, AUGUST
15, 2022
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2022/08/this-network-is-pure-evil.html
Vanita Gupta
NAACP
Legal Defense Fund
Gupta's first
case, while working for the Legal Defense Fund directly after law school,
involved 40 African Americans and six white or Latino people who were romantic
partners of African Americans in Tulia, Texas, who had been convicted by
all-white juries of dealing drugs.[14] In almost every case, the only evidence
was the testimony of an undercover agent, Tom Coleman.
Coleman did not
use wiretaps or marked money, and records showed that he had "filed shoddy
reports".[15] He had previous misdemeanor charges for stealing gasoline
from a county pump and abuse of official capacity.[15] Gupta won the release of
her clients in 2003, four years after they were jailed, then negotiated a $6
million settlement for them.[16] In 2004, she received the Reebok Human Rights
Award.[17] As of 2018, Paramount is making a film, Tulia, about the case.[18]
ACLU
In 2007, after
becoming a staff attorney at the American Civil
Liberties Union, Gupta filed a lawsuit against U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement (ICE) about detention conditions for children whose parents
were asylum seekers.[19] In August 2007, a landmark agreement was reached
between ACLU and ICE, under which the conditions in the T. Don Hutto
Residential Center improved and several children were released from the
center.[19]
On August 6,
2009, the Department of Homeland Security announced intentions to improve the
nation's immigration detention system, including ending family detention at the
T. Don Hutto Residential Center.[20]
After her time as
a staff attorney at the ACLU, Gupta served as its deputy legal director and
director of its Center for Justice.[21] She has been credited with pioneering
the ACLU's National Campaign to End Mass Incarceration.[22] She built
bipartisan coalitions to advance pre-trial and sentencing reforms around the
country.
Associate
Attorney General (2021-present)
Nomination
On January 7,
2021, President Joe Biden nominated
Gupta to serve as the United States Associate Attorney
General.[32][33] On
March 9, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a
hearing on her nomination.[34] Her
nomination was supported by a broad range of civil rights and law enforcement
groups,[35] as
well as by prominent conservatives who had worked with her on criminal justice
reform and voting rights.[36] Christine Todd Whitman, a Republican who served in the George W. Bush, endorsed her nomination.[37]
As a nominee,
Gupta pledged to support strong antitrust enforcement by the DOJ if
confirmed.[38]
Gupta faced
strong opposition from Republicans who criticized her civil rights advocacy,
particularly during the Trump administration. The Senate confirmed Gupta by a
51-49 vote on April 21 after Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski agreed
to vote to confirm her.[39] Gupta
pledged to sell her remaining $14.5 million stake in Avantor, a company
her father chairs, amid questioning about a report that the company sold
chemicals diverted by Mexican drug cartels to make heroin.
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