Foley Hoag LLP

... to do it.

The hourly rates, um, $700 an hour, and they've hired a powerful Washington, DC, uh, law firm, Foley Hoag LLP, to represent the governor of Maryland in this case.

It's a lot of money.

Now, we don't know where it's going and how far it is going to continue, um, but the initial ask of, um, you know, 550,000-

I, I don't know.

I just think politically speaking, this might be the one time where I would tell the governor, especially if I was in his comms office, 'cause he's got more comms guys than he does, uh, policy guys, I might say, "You know what, uh, Mr.

Governor, uh, you, you might wanna just reach into your pocket for this one and pay for your own law firm, just so, uh, from the optics at least, that you are not trying to get the, um, people of Maryland to pay your legal bills for maybe saying something that was inappropriate and wrong."

This is the C4 and Brian Neeman podcast.

We have been using a...

You know, I'm very grateful to say that we have an outstanding partner with Foley Hoag.

They're, uh, they're our legal team up, uh, up in Boston.

And to answer that question about the certification process, there are many criteria that have to be certified.

DeLay, requested a review of Epstein's donations in September 2019 after a partial financial review revealed he made significant donations to Harvard.

Led by Harvard's Office of the General Counsel and the outside law firm Foley Hoag, the full review found Epstein donated around $9.1 million between 1998 and 2008, and that Harvard did not take any gifts from Epstein following his 2008 conviction.

I don't buy that either.

How many Gucci bags were dropped off? How many Versace bags were dropped off stuffed with cash? Because remember, we're talking about Jeffrey Epstein here, money manipulator, money launderer, money trafficker, human trafficker, and all-around sleazebag.

Though the review also examined gifts Epstein directed and facilitated, the final report did not detail every gift made to the university in which donors may have had an association to Epstein.

Of course it didn't.

They used a friendly law firm to do an investigation into themselves, and this is the result.

It's no different than when you see the inspector general doing an investigation.

So stupid.

Be careful what you wish for, said Seth Jaffe, an environmental attorney at Foley Hoag.

Boiding EPA's regulatory authority under the Clean Air Act could give states more latitude to institute greenhouse gas curbs of their own, and large sources of climate pollution, such as power plants and oil companies, have been shielded from federal lawsuits brought by states and other plaintiffs because Congress had entrusted EPA with regulating greenhouse gases.

Now that the agency is forfeiting that authority, those safeguards may disappear.

Full stop.

whether EPA has issued standards for particular emissions or not.

Jaffe, the environmental lawyer from Foley Hoag, said he was surprised EPA did not base its repeal in part on a critique of climate science as it did in its draft last year.

That might have gotten the Supreme Court and Avenue to side with EPA while leaving preemption of state law in place, he said.