Ammon Bundy retains former Utah State Rep. J. Morgan Philpot

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By Maxine Bernstein | The Oregonian/OregonLive
May 26, 2016 at 12:00 AM
updated May 26, 2016 at 12:47 AM

... Late Wednesday, Eugene-based attorney Mike Arnold, who was retained by Bundy after his Jan. 26 arrest, filed a notice of "substitution of counsel,'' for Philpot ...

Arnold said the case has taken a toll on him. He missed his son's first birthday and first steps because of his work on the case and wants to spend more time with his family, he said ...

Philpot interned at the White House in 1997 as he was attending the University of Utah. He served as a representative in the Utah House from 2001 to 2004, prior to attending law school. Just before the end of his second term, he resigned his seat in order to attend Ave Maria School of Law in Ann Arbor, MI. After graduating law school in 2007, he returned to Utah where he worked for the Utah Attorney General's office. He made an unsuccessful run for Utah governor in 2012, and has served as vice chair of the Utah Republican Party. In January, he announced he was running for a Utah state senate seat ...

http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-standoff/2016/05/ammon_bundy_retains_new_lawyer.html

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1. Refuge Occupier Ammon Bundy Retains New Attorney

Originally published on May 26, 2016 7:25 am

... “Our firm is out,” Arnold wrote in a text Thursday ...

http://kuow.org/post/former-wildlife-refuge-occupier-ammon-bundy-retains-new-attorney

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2. The Ave Maria School of Law

I forgot about that shithole of a law school. It's got to be one of the worst accredited law schools in the country. You know that if your lawyer went there you should be getting ready for "the chair" because it's pretty much inevitable.

I think it was founded by the fundie wacko founder of Dominoes pizza.

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3. That's the place. The school moved from Ann Arbor MI to Naples FL in 2009

Ave Maria Law School Dead Last in Florida Bar Exam Passage Rate
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2011 AT 9:20 A.M.
BY MICHAEL E. MILLER
... Ave Maria -- founded by Domino's Pizza magnate Tom Monaghan and relocated in 2009 from Ann Arbor, Michigan -- continues to plummet, finishing dead last with a horrific 47.8 percent of students passing the test ...

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4. Yep. It's Tom Monghan's baby, a 'law school' that teaches you

all the Xian ways the law is to be interpreted. It's a successor to the once-proud "Close Cover Before Striking School of Law" which sadly had to be disbanded when most adults stopped smoking.

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5. Oh boy

As bad as the case was bumping and stumping along up until this time, at least Bundy had a competent attorney. Now it's going to go over to this nincompoop. The next couple of developments will be Ammon whining about his right to a speedy trial (again), followed very shortly by Philpott's filing of a motion for extension or motion to abate the proceedings.

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6. "J. Morgan Philpot" --Ha! Good one! That is, Batman fans can tell you, the Penguin's real name

I love a good joke about even a grim topic. Well played, my fellow DUer, well played.