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NATIONAL LAW JOURNAL

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LAW FIRM COMPETITION   |   NEWS The Washington Wrap: Antitrust Shuffle; Bauer Moves On; Gibson Dunn Raids Kirkland By Ryan Lovelace In this week's Washington Wrap: Keeping up with antitrust moves and other partners playing musical chairs in the capital....  Read More Suit Aimed at Ending NJ School Segregation Targets Role of Charter Schools Filed on the anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark 1954 school segregation case, Brown v. Board of Education...  Read More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Expresses Support for New Law Clerk Hiring Plan Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg spoke favorably of the plan last week during a meeting of the Federal Judges Association...  Read More Hourly Rate Gap Widens as Top Billers Leave Others Behind It's easy to be impressed by individual partner rates approaching $2,000 an hour, but the widening gap between whole...  Read More ANTITRUST   |   NEWS So Much for 'Cons

The Daily 202: Rex Tillerson is just the latest Trump aide to speak out after getting fired

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Rex Tillerson is just the latest Trump aide to speak out after getting fired Tillerson decries America's 'crisis of ethics and integrity' BY JAMES HOHMANN with Breanne Deppisch and Joanie Greve THE BIG IDEA: On “The Apprentice,” Donald Trump only fired 15 contestants each season. As president, he’s fired Cabinet secretaries and White House aides at a much higher rate. The historically high level of turnover that’s characterized the past 16 months has created bad blood and future risk for Trump. Several people who got pushed out unceremoniously, including via Twitter, are now publicly, if implicitly, criticizing him. While most casualties of Trump’s chaotic administration have remained loyal, they are liabilities who could become landmines down the road. -- Rex Tillerson’s  commencement speech  at the Virginia Military Institute underscores the potential peril.  The former secretary of state, fired in March, did n