US Senator Scott Brown has attacked Elizabeth Warren in recent days for her legal work on behalf of Travelers Insurance in an asbestos case, asserting that it undermines her reputation as a consumer advocate. But Travelers is not the only large corporation Warren has represented.
Warren also helped write a petition to the US Supreme Court for LTV Steel in the 1990s, assisting the former industrial conglomerate in its fight against a congressional requirement that it pay millions of dollars into a fund for its retired coal miners’ health care.

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"Warren, a Harvard Law School professor, did not argue the coal case in two lower courts, where LTV lost. Instead, she is listed on a petition to urge the Supreme Court to review the case, which the court rejected."
Another half-baked controversy because she wanted the case reviewed?
What I'm getting from this and the Travelers case is that she sided with large corporations to ensure that the corporations retained the financial ability to pay its victims/retirees promptly instead of relying on future settlements, and in order to do so, there had to be trade-offs so the corporations would get something out of it.
Not as evil as the Globe is trying to make it out to be.
Get out that spin polish someone is looking a little tarnished. ..." to ensure that the corporations retained the financial ability to pay" Do you even believe that? Wow.
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I don't recall any of your Romney articles requiring the readers to pay to read them. So Lizzie is STILL making the people pay, even in news print.
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Any chance the Globe will write a story about Warren's apparently illegal practice of law in Mass. without a license? Even if this is turns out to be legal based on some exemption, I think this is a story worth looking into. The staff is probably looking for the right spin, this takes time...
Did she practice or just consult? Because there is a difference.
This was answered in the article Begon. You must have had your Scott Brown blinders on. She did not practice so she did not need it. However she was a member of the Supreme Court Bar and entitled to litigate federal cases. Now what issues has Sen Brown worked on that so tickles your fancy?
The Globe pretends to inform people about bankruptcy law in a few sentences, leaving enough fodder for both sides. In truth there is not enough information to make a judgment. If these cases are going to be brought out then a fuller discussion and enlightenment is required. A reporter just writing down what each side said without some independent research is a disservice to the public. After reading and rereading the article it is hard to figure out rationales. As usual if you support one candidate or the other that is where your opinion migrates. In short it leaves us just where we were before this was presented. Does the Globe really want the next debate cluttered with a few complicated cases with many actors and readers with little expertise on the subject are suppose to figure out if this is good, bad, or indifferent? All I know is she was respected for her work and it helped reform our bankruptcy laws. It preserved payments to claimants, distributed funds reasonably, and tried to keep companies from shirking their responsibilities by declaring bankruptcy.
You say, " All I know is she was respected for her work and it helped reform our bankruptcy laws. It preserved payments to claimants, distributed funds reasonably, and tried to keep companies from shirking their responsibilities by declaring bankruptcy. " .....And you know this how? Where is your research on this, and where can we see it?
yeah ... and let's see your long form birth certificate while we are at it. boy, the full moon pack is out baying this morning.
Clearly, this woman is a liar and a hypocrite. And the spin put out by her in this article is laughable.
Since Ms. Warren never passed the Massachusetts Bar, how is it that she can practice law?
The answer is in the article. She didn't argue the case, she consulted on it. Perfectly legal. ALso, this was almost 20 years ago.
Warren, through her campaign, declined an interview request. What is she hiding?
This is another sounds strangely similar to her denial that she claimed Indian heritage for career advancment. dishonest, immoral - and self serving?
She's a fraud! This is what happens when the Democratic regime in MA hand picks its candidates instead of letting the voters decide. The party did not want a primary so they forced all the other candidates to withdraw while they annointed Miss Lizzie.
More evidence of how the Dems continue to strip away your freedoms.
Have you forgotten how Mitt Romney became the GOP candidate for Governor? Or how Scott Brown was selected? Welcome to politics. Methinks thou doust protest too much.
A person who accepts money to perform obscene acts is called a 'prostitute'.
to affirmative action baby, liar and snooty professor, "WesternCiv2" with that marvelous pic of one of the foulest imperialists of the 20th century, is added whore?? really??
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I refer to her debate performance when I ask, "why did she repeat the words, billionaire and millionaire" 37 times? She lacks that amazing grace and bludgeons her supporters with campaign slogans designed to inflame the masses of "poor folks" who hate "rich" people. Class warfare versus telling the truth is the stratagem. The truth is simple. She is a lawyer who like any good debater will take any side and argue it. In the case in point here, she must have done it for the bucks. So, why now, is she our declared champion and protector against those really nasty banks and businesses like Travelers and LTV Steel? May I suggest she found a step ladder. Not answering or providing records and evading the truth is her stock in trade. Yes, she is in the political trade where facts lie buried under the truth. Her Harvard pull got her the contacts for this nomination. If good Democrats really had a choice, would they want her for this senate seat? Try that question on your next Democrat survey.
yeah. pro FOX. sort of tells you what you need to know.
this is a Karl Rove script.
Liz Warren Liberal . Liz Warren Phony.
typical Republican smears in the Karl Rove era: take the opponents best features, here intelligence and candor, through lies and more lies endlessly repeated with the Republican Noise Machine, convert into stupidity and liar ...
at long last, does Scott Brown and his ilk have no decency? that answer is obvious. this campaign is all about dressing up Scott Brown in sheep's clothing ... oh, Mr. Independent Senator ... you'll vote lockstep with your Republican colleagues reliably, right? that is all you need to know, and it is a true thing. all the rest is spin, noise and, quite frankly, misogynist smears. Warren as an affirmative action baby and now a liar? yeah, and I got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you. apparently Brown is counting on the ability to fool most of the people some of the time.
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But you don't present anything to refute the FACTS of this story.
When Jim Braude asked in the interview yesterday if she would release a list of her other clients, she replied "I don't have it". Warren isn't big on transparency, and clearly there is a reason. Warren, relase your Penn and Harvard employee records and client list; as a consumer advocate don't you believe voters have a right to know?
Seems like big corporations wrote her some Big Paychecks which she had no problem cashing at the expense of workers, both LTV and Travelars Insurance. Not to mention she can't state what a 'middle income' salary is. She is so uninspiring and while I am a Democrat, Scott Brown is earning my vote not as much as Ms. Warren is losing it.
Some Democrate!
Yep.....Let’s see what we have so far for the Warren household…… >3/4 of a million $$ annually from Harvard University for Mr. & Ms. Warren >$200K (+) from Travelers Ins. to help make this pesky Supreme Court issue go away..... >$100K (+) annually for Ms. Warren's consulting fees and personal appearance fees. Seems to me that she is one of those 'Millionaires & Billionaires' that she is sworn to protect us from....like ‘puttin' the Fox in charge of protecting the hen house’......
Wow, are you repubs are really getting desperate. You all sound like hungry wolves going for a very small piece of meat.
Is this all you can come up with. I just can't stop laughing.Can't you see how stupid this makes you look? If Elizabeth Warren had earned 10 million dollars this might be a story, but $10,000 over 20 years ago. Do you really think that lawyers only represent people that they love and admire? Thanks for the laugh.
Hear, hear!
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Look this is simply RIDICULOUS. Get a check on reality. People had LIVES BEFORE running for office now and it included working sometimes with different corporations or on behalf of them. Sometimes especially in the legal field, as I personally have experienced in a NON-attorney, role one must represent many different interests. Guess what? We LIVE in a capitalist society in case you haven't noticed. In our system even corporations deserve representation as well. You may not love the company you represent but in our system EVERYONE deserves their day in court with legal counsel. THIS is a good thing AND the attorney in a firm does NOT often get to pick and choose whom they represent. Without corporation attorney advocacy the entire economic system would collapse as companies ad infinitum would be sued with NO representation. Even plaintiffs would suffer by that. 1993 is a long time ago and ONCE AGAIN I think Elizabeth has answered this sufficiently. I was ALWAYS a left of center cause advocate but that did not mean I did not have to make a living. Representing insurance companies, corporations and those involved in bankruptcy need representation too and sometimes as in life things are not neatly wrapped packages. GET A GRIP Senator Brown, my image is of you and your staff wading through all kinds of material just to get a GOTCHA MOMENT on this gem of a candidate. You were a BULLY in the first debate and you continue to be so. I look at Elizabeth Warren now who formed the Consumer Protection Bureau for what she IS and WILL be a STRONG ADVOCATE FOR THE MIDDLE CLASS. Massachusetts should consider itself LUCKY to get this brilliant woman. Mr. Brown, Jesus said, do not look at the speck the other man's eye when YOU have a LOG in your own and I say YOU HAVE A BIG ONE!
You said it better than I did!
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Liberal strategy is to bludgeon opposing voices into silence. No matter how much truth is told, the response is not to present the truth. It is to batter and ram the opposition with damning epithets. Lacking a reasoned, rational response for Professor Warren's faux feathers, school yard name calling splashes the playground with dirty words. The latest, "a Karl Rove script" left out that killer defamation, "Neocon" and "stupid right winger". Saying the Democrats lack their own "Noise machine". is like saying a chicken haas no feathers. No defense exists that would satisfy a "believer" who denies reality. Let us look at a little bit of reality. Do you really believe that the windmill and clean energy business will employ those thousands of displaced workers from the "dirty" oil and gas industry? Did the "Hate groups" that blasted the oil pipe line from Canada help lower the cost of gasoline from its current nearly $4/gallon. Do you really believe the fed printing paper money does not make you the payer of our national debt with your cheapened pay check? How many independent Democrat senators were there when Obama, Harry and Nancy blasted that unread million page Obamacare law through Congress at Midnight?
Bludgeoning opposing voices into silence is a practice that predates definitions of liberal, conservative, or curmudgeonly. Ever heard of Socrates and Meletus?
The well is poisoned by your examples. The Keystone pipeline takes dirty, corrosive oil-shale liquid FROM CANADA and transports it through the US, over an aquifer that supplies 7 states and deposits it in refineries that produce oil FOR THE WORLD MARKET, through the Gulf of Mexico. No workers are displaced. We EXPORT gas and oil and diesel! The pipeline supports very few permanent good jobs and gives Canada an outlet to the world through the Gulf of Mexico. In simpler words, a foreign country is building a pipeline across sovereign US soil, with inherent dangers, from north to south. This pipeline does not produce many jobs and does not reduce the price of oil. It does however, give Canada the cheapest way to move this dirty oil to the world! Refineries in the US are closing(!) in the northeast, contributing to the shortage of gas and rising prices. Why? Because they are not profitable enough for Big Oil. They would rather export, where the profits are larger, so if you want to blame someone for shortages and prices, look at the same people who stiffed you during the 70's with gas lines, shortages etc., telling you oil was running out (while tankers waited offshore for the price to rise.) "The dirty little secret that those pushing so urgently for building Keystone XL don't want you to know is that the tar sands oil producers are in cahoots with Texas refineries to move the product onto the lucrative global export market, selling it to buyers in Europe, Latin America and China -- not to you and me. The pipeline and the toxic crude it'll carry across six states would do..." http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/6978:the-keystone-xl-flimflam
I have criticized the Globe for appearing heavily biased in its articles associated with this campaign (favoring the Warren campaign)......I was pleased read this article and to see that there is some motivation on the part of the Globe's editorial staff to be fair in its reporting. Thank You.
So bias is anything you don't like, and fair and balanced is anything you like? Both candidates have flaws that have been reported on. That's what newspapers do.
JLErwin3.....you missed my point.....There have been PLENTY of pro-Warren articles published by the Globe in recent weeks. My observation above points to this artlcle as one that offers balence and adds more legitimacy to the Globe as a news organization. No argument with your 2nd point......both candidates are indeed flawed.....we are left with a choice to 'Pick our Poison' between the two.
This article reads as though it was a lightly reworked press release from the Scott Brown campaign. Is that how the Globe's responds to accusations of bias?
What I said to Normie applies here as well.
"would seem to undercut her image as a middle-class champion"......
Nope. Does undercut...... same with the Travelers suit, same with her claiming minority status, same with her drawing 340K for teaching one class...
How does the "claiming minority status" afect that at all? Except that you wanted to get the smear in?
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The wheels appear to be coming off the Warren campaign. I can hear all the shrill cries of gender discrimination now.
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