Debate Prep by Day, Google Defense by Night
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Karen Dunn is helping Kamala Harris and defending Big Tech from a lawsuit brought by the Biden-Harris administration. The case has spotlighted a brawl between Dunn’s law firm and DOJ.

Kamala Harris’s political adviser Karen Dunn seems to have the unusual ability to exist in two places at once. Last week, she both prepped Harris in Pittsburgh for tonight’s presidential debate against Donald Trump, and prepped legal defense strategy in an Alexandria, Virginia, courtroom for Google, which is facing a monopolization lawsuit brought by Harris’s own administration. The first day of the Google trial began Monday, with Dunn, a partner with firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, giving the opening statement in court.

    • AmbiguousProps@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      2 months ago

      It doesn’t matter that they’re in the same industry. They’re not competing against each other, and it’s an antitrust case.

      • prismgraffiti@thelemmy.club
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        2 months ago

        That’s not my point. Her brother in law is an Uber lawyer and at the same time advising her campaign. Similarly, her campaign advisor is defending Google in an anti-monopoly case. She is big tech friendly is the point I am making.

        • cranakis@reddthat.comEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Because she, a successful lawyer, has family and advisors that are also lawyers and your worried that they are practicing law?

          If her brother and advisor were criminal defense lawyers instead, would you say that’s proof Harris would be weak on crime?

          Lawyers are gonna lawyer my friend. That’s, in and of itself, is not a sign of anything nefarious.

          • prismgraffiti@thelemmy.club
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            2 months ago

            From the article

            If we’ve learned anything about Harris thus far, it’s that the truism “personnel is policy” will prove to be especially relevant for her campaign and future administration. The strong parts of Harris’s economic platform are in small measure a credit to her bringing onto her campaign two of the more progressive advisers from the Biden administration, Brian Deese and Bharat Ramamurti.

            But others in the Harris brain trust are trying to swing the campaign in a more business-friendly direction, on things like crypto or capital gains taxes where she’s broken with President Biden.

            Dunn has just been a debate prepper to this point. But her involvement as lead counsel in a case where Paul, Weiss has been accused of dirty tricks in a case against the government demands more scrutiny. Especially if that is being done to damage a personnel appointment in Kanter, who has been one of the Biden administration’s most effective officials.