Is its own reward:
Covington & Burling, a prominent law firm, plans to announce on Thursday that Mr. Breuer will be its vice chairman. The firm created the role especially for Mr. Breuer, a Washington insider who most recently led the Justice Department’s investigation into the financial crisis.For Mr. Breuer, who will now shift to defending large corporations, Covington is familiar turf. He previously spent nearly two decades there.
“There’s a strong emotional pull to the firm,” Mr. Breuer, who departed as the Justice Department’s criminal division chief on March 1, said in an interview. “It’s my professional home.”
Mr. Breuer is expected to earn about $4 million in his first year at Covington.
If you want to know how and when our political system started to break down, you can point to the day when Team Democrat placed a bunch of career corporate guys in charge of its policy agenda instead of the traditional career civil servants, academics, or labor lawyers. This meant we no longer had a liberal populist party to act as a check against the corporatists, and this is why we simply don't have a liberal democracy anymore, or even a constitutional Republic. Well, we do, but it's more like a Potemkin Republic where we go through the pretense of conducting elections every couple of years, but nothing gets done (a) unless it returns dividends for shareholders, and (b) if it might harm shareholder value. Not a shareholder? Oh well!
---Baron V
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