Conservative Lawyers for Democrats!
File this one under pigs can too fly:
"Lawyers at Kirkland & Ellis, the law firm that's home to Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth Starr and Bush administration official Jay Lefkowitz, have given more to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign than to all of the top Republican candidates combined." . . .
"Kirkland, based in Chicago, is one of several corporate law firms that traditionally backed Republicans where lawyers are turning to Democratic candidates. Lawyers say the change is largely due to disenchantment with the Republican Party's social policies and the war in Iraq." . . .
Floyd Abrams, who represented Judith Miller and the New York Times in the Washington grand jury investigation of the leak of a CIA agent Valerie Plame's name, said lawyers are using their wallets to express anger at the Bush administration.
``The illegal warrantless wiretapping of American citizens'' and the ``self-aggrandizing claims of executive power'' are influencing donations, said Abrams, a partner at New York's Cahill Gordon & Reindel. ``These are not the centrist views that used to attract the middle-of-the-road, often conservative lawyers.''
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