Elizabeth Warren fights to deregulate insurance lawyers
“I’m not like other Democrats who push regulations on other people then ignore the law themselves,” said Warren. “I believe in full deregulation of insurance company lawyers.”
“Every regulation we pile onto insurance lawyers,” says Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren, “is more blood on our hands. Blood. On our hands!”
Elizabeth Warren came out fighting against claims she represented insurance companies without complying with Massachusetts regulations on practicing law. According to Warren, the United States has far too many regulations, and she “is proud” to fight for deregulating insurance companies.
“I defended The Travelers Insurance Company without a license because insurance companies are too heavily regulated,” said Warren. “I was making a statement about over-regulation of insurance lawyers.”
Warren added that this is why she refused to take the Massachusetts bar exam to become a licensed lawyer in Massachusetts, and why she resigned her New Jersey license. “No one should have to beg the government for a license just to do their job,” said Warren. “We need to deregulate lawyers, we need to deregulate insurance, and we especially need to deregulate insurance lawyers.”
According to Warren, she did have 1/32nd of a law license, licensed under her Cherokee name, “Dewey-Cheatum”. “My right to practice law comes from the trees and the mountains and the rivers and the lakes. No white man can take that from me.”
Warren said that being a lawyer is part of her heritage as an American Indian. “It’s part of our family lore that I am licensed as a lawyer in Massachusetts,” Warren told The Reader. “Not only am I 1/32nd Cherokee, I’m also 1/57th Sioux.”
Warren was adamant that deregulating insurance companies is good for everyone. “I wasn’t defending Travelers Insurance on their own,” said Warren. “They make insurance—good for them. But I want to be clear. You need their insurance. You are required by law to pay them for insurance. You are safe because you are forced to buy their insurance. I wasn’t defending Travelers Insurance. I was defending you.”
“It had nothing to do with the $212,000 they paid me,” she added.
Warren chastised her opponent in the Massachusetts Senate race, Scott Brown, for not supporting deregulation of insurance company lawyers.
The Scott Brown campaign ducked the issue when asked whether requiring insurance lawyers to have law licenses was anti-Indian racism. The campaign responded only that “Warren called herself Cherokee without being Cherokee, she called herself a lawyer without passing the bar exam. She’ll probably call herself Senator without winning the election.”
- Elizabeth Warren’s law license problem: William A. Jacobson at Legal Insurrection
- “Warren attempted to deny her role, and referred to a Boston Globe article, but the Globe article supports Brown’s account. The Globe article indicated the representation was for a period of three years and Warren was paid $212,000. The case resulted in a Supreme Court victory for Travelers arising out of a bankruptcy case in New York.” “Warren represented not just Travelers, but numerous other companies starting in the late 1990s working out of and using her Harvard Law School office in Cambridge, which she listed as her office of record on briefs filed with various courts. Warren, however, never has been licensed to practice law in Massachusetts.” (Memeorandum thread) (Hat tip to DrewM at Ace of Spades HQ)
- Video: Unaccountable – Elizabeth Warren and the Cherokee: William A. Jacobson at Legal Insurrection
- “Yet Warren has yet to accept accountability for falsely claiming to be Cherokee during key moments in her career, starting in the mid-1980s when she started listing herself as Native American in order to appear on the ‘Minority Law Teachers’ list in the faculty directory of the Association of American Law Schools. That directory put the law school community, including recruiters, on notice of Warren’s alleged minority status.” (Memeorandum thread)
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