Jay Sekulow, oh how I hate thee.
You see for me to explain why I hate the man so much would probably take a few hundred pages of court documents, a legal search on Westlaw or Lexis Nexis, and some good old Google searches to see why. Of course when you meet the man in person at a Supreme Court Historical Society event in Washington D.C. ("So an Atheist walks over to a evangelical..." Sorry, it sounded like a great start to a knock-knock joke) you realize how short he is in real life.
So thanks to Law.com, we can all air Jay's dirty laundry together.
For those of you scoring at home, you get bonus points if you have any of the following:
- In 2001 one of Sekulow's nonprofit organizations paid a total of $2,374,833 to purchase two homes used primarily by Sekulow and his wife. The same nonprofit also subsidized a third home he uses in North Carolina
- Sekulow outsourced his own legal services from the ACLJ, shifting from a position with a publicly disclosed salary to that of a private contractor that requires no public disclosure.
- When donors respond to solicitations and write out checks to the ACLJ, some of the money never makes it into ACLJ coffers but instead winds up with CASE, Sekulow's separate entity. Certain solicitations mention CASE in fine print as an entity "doing business as" the ACLJ.
- They say it was not unusual for Sekulow to drop $800 for lavish meals at Morton's, a high-end steakhouse, and that Sekulow rented luxury suites at the Willard Inter-Continental Hotel in the days before his Supreme Court arguments. Along with the private jet came chauffeured cars and added security, including bodyguards.
- Sekulow offered Scalia the chance to travel from Washington to the event on a jet then owned by CASE.
