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Originally Posted by Not Bob

On a similar note, I am Not Impressed that Mayer Brown is representing the plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the city of Glendale about a statue honoring Korean "comfort women." Hurt feelings and historical truth? I doubt they would represent a German-American Holocaust denier (or a Turkish-American Armenian genocide denier, or an WASP Potato Famine denier, etc.) in a similar action.

I'm not sure which is worse -- the side they are taking, or that they are advancing the notion that erecting a statue somehow "infringes upon the federal government's power to exclusively conduct the foreign affairs of the United States and violates the supremacy clause of the U.S. Constitution.”