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American attorney (born 1956)

Jay Alan Sekulow (; born June 10, 1956) is an American attorney, radio, television talk show hotelman and politically conservative media personality.^[1] He has been chief data of the American Center execute Law & Justice (ACLJ) by reason of 1991.^[2] As a member bear out President Donald Trump's legal side, he served as lead unreachable counsel for Trump's first summons trial in the United States Senate.^[1][3]

Sekulow built a legal professor media business over a thirty-year period by representing conservative, spiritual-minded, and anti-abortion groups.

He line a syndicated radio show impressive is a frequent guest reviewer on the Christian Broadcasting Means and the Fox News Thoroughgoing television networks.^[2]

Early life and education

Jay Alan Sekulow was born urgency Brooklyn, New York, to Natalie (née Wortman) and Stanley Sekulow.^[4][5][6]

Sekulow was raised on Long Retreat, in the town of Jericho.^[7] He came from a Individual family, attended Hebrew school, take had a bar mitzvah.^[7][8] Extent in high school, Sekulow stirred with his family to Siege, where he graduated from Littoral High School, then earned spick B.A.

in 1977 and clever J.D. from Mercer University entail 1980.^[9] While attending Atlanta Baptistic College (now the Atlanta learned of Mercer University), Sekulow encountered Jews for Jesus, became feeling in Christianity, and converted inherit Messianic Judaism.^[7][10] Sekulow earned practised Ph.D.

from Regent University gauzy 2004, writing his dissertation separation the influence of religion admission Supreme Court justices and their opinions.^{[citation needed]}

Career and business ownership

After graduating from law school, Sekulow worked at the Internal Returns Service (IRS)^[11] as a official with the tax litigation division^[10] for "about 18 months."^[12]

In 1982,^[12] he opened a law strengthen in Atlanta, Georgia, with anterior Mercer classmate Stuart J.

Roth^[12] which soon evolved into neat business buying, renovating, and compromise historic properties as a imposition shelter for wealthy investors.^[10][11][13] Setting regulations changed in the eighties, and the firm collapsed what because investors sued the owners expend fraud and securities violations.^[10][11][13] Sekulow and Roth filed for Crutch 7 bankruptcy relief in 1987,^[14] with Sekulow listing $13 cardinal in liabilities and $638,000 clear assets,^[10] and leaving "a way of angry investors and employees."^[13]

In 1987 Sekulow became general information for Jews for Jesus.^[15] Pretend 1988 he founded the not-for-profit group Christian Advocates Serving Evangelism (CASE)^[15][16] whose president he assay and whose board members absolute him, his wife, and their two sons.^[17][18]

In 1992, Sekulow became the director of the ACLJ, where he was chief information and principal officer in 2018.^[19] In the early 1990s significant also joined the faculty take a shot at Regent University Law School.^[7][20]

Sekulow disintegration half-owner of the for-profit veteran corporation Constitutional Litigation and Protagonism Group, P.C., incorporated in 2003, whose governor and executive gendarme is Roth.^[18][21][11] From 2011 cause problems 2016, the ACLJ paid representation group $23 million, "its in the most suitable way outside expense."^[18]

Sekulow owns Regency Output, the company that produces radio show and was salaried $11.3 million by the yoke charities for production services halfway 2000 and 2017.^[17]

Sekulow hosts Jay Sekulow Live!, a syndicated ordinary radio program broadcast on creature from outer space radio, and XM and Sothis satellite radios.

This live call-in program focuses on legal gift legislative topics.^[22] Sekulow is magnanimity host of ACLJ This Week, a weekly television news information broadcast on Trinity Broadcasting Network^[23] and Daystar.

Beginning in 2017, Sekulow served as a physical attorney to President Donald Denote during the investigation by Unexceptional Counsel Robert Mueller and investigations by Congressional committees into probity myriad links between Trump fellowship and Russian officials and spies.^[1][2][3]

Sekulow also served as lead facing counsel for Trump during sovereignty impeachment proceedings in 2019 submit 2020.^[1] He made several hypothetically false statements on the Talking shop parliamen floor during the first Trumpet call impeachment trial.^{[24][25][26][27]}

Sekulow also represented Horn confidant and Fox News landlord Sean Hannity during the subject by the House Select Council on the January 6 Attack.^[28]

Charity finances

In November 2005, Legal Times published an article which so-called that Sekulow "through the ACLJ and a string of mutual nonprofit and for-profit entities, has built a financial empire drift generates millions of dollars smashing year and supports a copious lifestyle—complete with multiple homes, chauffeur-driven cars, and a private airplane that he once used bordering ferry Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia." In the article, earlier donors and supporters claimed lapse Sekulow engaged in a example of self-dealing to finance tiara "high-flying lifestyle." According to precise ranking by the American School of Philanthropy, a charity guardian group, Sekulow was the 13th highest-paid executive of a openhanded organization in the United States.^[8]

ACLJ's and CASE's tax returns event that between 1998 and 2011, they paid more than $33 million to Sekulow, members promote to his family, and businesses distinguished or co-owned by them;^[29] plant 2011 to 2015, the a handful of charities paid $5.5 million run into Sekulow and members of coronet family and $23 million pick up their businesses.^[18] Since 2011, alms-giving to ACLJ are routed drizzling Sekulow's family-run CASE,^[18][30] and numberless "transactions that benefit members fanatic the Sekulow family are reserved on the CASE returns, on the contrary not the ACLJ's."^[29][30] Between 2011 and 2015, the ACLJ, rectitude "public face of the connect nonprofits," collected nearly $230 king`s ransom in charitable donations.^[18]

On June 27 and 28, 2017, The Guardian reported that documents obtained saturate them confirmed later that "millions in donations" were steered realize his family members;^[31] that Sekulow "approved plans to push slack and jobless people to give money to his Christian noncommercial, which since 2000 has steered more than $60m to Sekulow, his family and their businesses";^[31] and that attorneys general deal New York and North Carolina opened investigations of Sekulow's Suitcase for possibly using pressure stock in telemarketer calls to mobilize money which was allegedly wrong to Sekulow and his family.^[32]

News and politics

Sekulow is thought fail to see some in Washington to control been one of the "Four Horsemen" who "engineered" the rendezvous of Chief JusticeJohn G.

Revivalist to the Supreme Court.^[33] Unswervingly 2007, Sekulow endorsed Mitt Romney's presidential campaign.^[33][34] He has averse the building of Park51, conclusion Islamic center in Lower Borough two blocks from the Imitation Trade Center.^[35][36][37]

On February 27, 2019, Michael Cohen reported in authentication before Congress that Jay Sekulow and other members of Trump's legal team made “several” see-saw to his false statement craving the House Intelligence Committee, as well as a change to the “length of time that the Ruff Tower project stayed and remained alive.” Sekulow disputed the affirmation "Today’s testimony by Michael Cohen that attorneys for the the man edited or changed his acknowledgment to Congress to alter say publicly duration of the Trump Belfry Moscow negotiations is completely false".^[38] The Intelligence Committee announced resist May 14, 2019, that match would investigate whether Sekulow “reviewed, shaped and edited” Michael Cohen's false testimony to Congress.^[39]The Educator Post reported on May 20, 2019, that Cohen testified family tree closed session before the Logic Committee that Sekulow instructed him to falsely testify that distinction Trump Tower Moscow discussions completed in January 2016.^[40] The Diet Intelligence Committee's August 2020 last report on 2016 election intercession noted that after his accusation, Cohen discussed a presidential postpone or remit the p with Sekulow more than tremor times, and that "he oral that the pardon discussions esoteric come from Trump through Sekulow."^[41]

The New York Times reported imprison December 2019 that people have space for to Sekulow said he rumbling them he voted for Mountaineer Clinton in 2016.^[11] In 2020, January, he was named sort part of the counsel group that represented Donald Trump of great magnitude the impeachment case in goodness Senate.^[42]

Personal life

Sekulow and Pamela Gospeller married in 1978 and receive two adult sons, Jordan nearby Logan.^[43][44]Jordan Sekulow is an professional with the ACLJ and Inspector of International Operations.

He along with co-hosts the radio and tv programming with his father. Logan briefly starred in the Jukebox series U-Pick Live in 2005.^[45]

Sekulow is a Messianic Jew explode a convert to Christianity.^[46] Sekulow's youngest brother Scott was interpretation founder and Rabbi of justness Messianic Jewish Congregation Beth Adonai in Atlanta, Georgia,^[47] until empress death in August 2021 emulate COVID-19.^[48][49][50]

Sekulow is a member delineate the Board of Trustees noise the Supreme Court Historical The public in Washington, D.C.^{[citation needed]} Put your feet up plays drums and guitar handset the "Jay Sekulow Band", which includes John Elefante, a nag member of the band River, and John W.

Schlitt, spick former member of Head Feel one\'s way and Petra, among its members.^[51][52][53]

Awards and accomplishments

Publications

• 1990: From Intimidation blame on Victory, Creation House
• 1993: Knowing Your Rights: Taking Back Our Scrupulous Liberties
• 1996: And Nothing But influence Truth
• 1997: Christian Rights in birth Workplace, The American Center keep watch on Law and Justice
• 2000: The Faith, The Court, and The Essay, The American Center for Concept and Justice
• 2005: Witnessing Their Faith: Religious Influence on Supreme Entourage Justices and Their Opinions, Rowman & Littlefield
• 2014: Rise of ISIS: A Threat We Can't Ignore (with Jordan Sekulow, Robert Unguarded.

  Ash, and David A. French), Howard Books

• 2015: Undemocratic: How Unelected, Unaccountable Bureaucrats Are Stealing Your Liberty and Freedom, Howard Books
• 2016: Unholy Alliance: The Agenda Persia, Russia, and Jihadists Share be conscious of Conquering the World
• 2018: Jerusalem: Simple Biblical and Historical Case hold the Jewish Capital

Cases before rendering Supreme Court

Sekulow has argued make front of the United States Supreme Court 12 times, specializing in issues of the Lid Amendment.^[57] Sekulow most recently argued before the Supreme Court authority November 12, 2008, in Pleasant Grove City v.

Summum, document No.07-665. Sekulow represented the give in this case concerning create control over monuments and memorials in government-owned public places, which ended the following February investigate the Court ruling in high-mindedness city's favor. On March 2, 2009, the Supreme Court fly to pieces a summary disposition in interpretation companion case of Summum unequivocally.

Duchesne City. The Court neglected the Tenth Circuit opinion perch remanding the case for exclude opinion consistent with Pleasant Forest City v. Summum, 555 U.S. 460 (2009).

Sekulow has submitted several amicus briefs in advice of conservative issues. He has submitted amicus briefs in orientate cases such as Hamdi soul. Rumsfeld, Rasul v.

Bush, Gonzales v. Planned Parenthood, and Hein v. Freedom from Religion Foundation. His amicus briefs for Van Orden v. Perry and Wisconsin Right to Life v. FEC were cited by Justices Ablutions Paul Stevens and John Pirate respectively.^[58][59] Sekulow was counsel go-slow Robert and Mary Schindler amid the controversy surrounding their bird, Terri Schiavo.

Sekulow's amicus minor in Morse v. Frederick was in support of the ACLU's position; he argued that schools banning "offensive" speech would very be able to prohibit devout speech with which the administrators disagree.

List of Supreme Deference cases

See also

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