Patrick F. Philbin
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Patrick Philbin | |
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| Education | Yale University (BA) Harvard University (JD) |
Patrick F. Philbin is an American lawyer who serves as Deputy Counsel to the President and Deputy Assistant to the President in the Office of White House Counsel in the Donald J. Trump administration.[1] He previously served as a political appointee in the Department of Justice during the George W. Bush administration.[2][better source needed]
Academics
Philbin is a graduate of the Roxbury Latin School in Boston, Massachusetts.[citation needed] He holds a B.A. in History from Yale University where he graduated summa cum laude in 1989 and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.[3][better source needed] He received his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1992, magna cum laude, where he was excutive editor of the Harvard Law Review.[3][4]
Career
Philbin first served as a law clerk for Federal Appeals Court Judge Laurence Silberman.[5][dead link] Next he worked as a clerk for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.[citation needed] Following his clerkships, Philbin entered private practice in the Washington, D.C. office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP.[3][better source needed]
During the Bush Administration, Philbin served as a political appointee in the Department of Justice, first as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel from 2001 to 2003 and then as an Associate Deputy Attorney General in the Office of the Deputy Attorney General from 2003 to 2005.[6][3][better source needed][7][better source needed] Philbin was one of the lawyers who helped counsel President Bush that as head of the United States' Government executive branch, the president had the authority to charge Guantanamo captives before military commissions[5] (see the Legal opinions section of the Wikipedia article on John Yoo).
According to then-Acting Attorney General James Comey, Philbin was present in March 2004 when he rushed to John Ashcroft's hospital bed to try to prevent other Bush officials from persuading the very sick Attorney General to reverse Comey's decision as Acting Attorney General to not approve renewal of the controversial warrantless wiretap program during the war on terror.[8] Comey said that Philbin's career suffered when he supported Comey's intervention to prevent Gonzales from abusing Ashcroft. According to Comey, Vice President Dick Cheney blocked the anticipated appointment of Philbin to the position of Principal Deputy Solicitor General in the Office of the Solicitor General.[9][6]
Philbin subsequently returned to private practice,[when?] joining the Washington, D.C. office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP as a partner, where he focused on appellate litigation, complex litigation, and data security.[3][better source needed] In 2019, Philbin was appointed as Deputy Counsel to the President and Deputy Assistant to the President in the Office of White House Counsel in the Trump Administration.[1] In 2020, he was appointed to the defense team that represents President Trump in the Senate impeachment trial.[10]
References
- ^ a b White House Staff. "President Donald J. Trump Announces Appointments for the Executive Office of the President". The White House. Retrieved February 18, 2019.
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Anonymous. "Profile: Patrick F. Philbin [entries, 2001-2007]". HistoryCommons.org. New York, NY: Center for Grassroots Oversight/GlobalVision. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. Retrieved May 23, 2007.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|1=(help)[better source needed] - ^ a b c d e Philbin, Patrick F. "Patrick F. Philbin, P.C.—Partner Profile". Washington, D.C.: Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Archived from the original on October 6, 2018.[third-party source needed]
- ^ Philbin wrote a note in the Harvard Law Review regarding the specialty requirement in the medieval action of covenant. See Philbin, Patrick (1992). "Proving the Will of Another: The Specialty Requirement in Covenant". Harvard Law Review. 105: 2001–2020. Retrieved January 30, 2020.. Authorship is not shown on the cited web page, but was verified by a separate JSTOR search.
- ^ a b Marcus, Ruth (May 25, 2007). "The legal terror of executive power". Albany Times Union. Retrieved May 26, 2007.[dead link]
- ^ a b Lattman, Peter (May 18, 2007). "The U.S. Attorney Mess: Spotlight on Patrick Philbin". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved February 18, 2019.
- ^ Bloomberg Staff. "Bloomberg Profile: Patrick F. Philbin". New York, NY: Bloomberg LLP. Retrieved January 30, 2020.[better source needed]
- ^ Auchenbach, Joel (May 16, 2007). "Waterboarding Ashcroft". Washington Post. Archived from the original on September 7, 2008. Retrieved May 23, 2007.
- ^ Shapiro, Ari (June 7, 2007). "Cheney Blocks DOJ Official's Promotion: Document". NPR.org. Retrieved February 18, 2019.
- ^ O'Reilly, Andrew (January 14, 2020). "Trump's impeachment trial team: Who are the lawyers defending the president?". Fox News. Retrieved January 15, 2020.
Further reading
- "The Interrogation Documents: Debating U.S. Policy and Methods". George Washington University. July 13, 2004. Retrieved May 23, 2007.. This is a page from the NSA archive, linking to two memoranda by Philbin, on matters related to White House leadership on anti-terror interrogation methods.
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