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The Trump administration’s choice for the Environmental Protection Agency’s top
lawyer has never taken a deposition, argued a motion or authored a legal pleading. On Wednesday, Republicans on a Senate committee advanced Sean Donahue’s nomination on a party-line vote.
The EPA arm he would lead, the Office of General Counsel, oversees the enforcement of environmental laws like the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Air
Act and the Clean Water Act.
During Donahue’s confirmation hearing before the Senate Environment and Public
Works Committee in late March, Democrats pressed the nominee on his legal qualifications. Donahue told lawmakers his previous legal practice had mostly involved work as an associate at the law firm Phillips Lytle for 18 months before that firm fired him.
In response to a question on whether he knows what a motion in limine is — a motion to exclude or limit evidence or arguments — Donahue said shakily, “I do,
vaguely, yes.”
Donahue also worked briefly at a solar energy company and served for three years
in the first Trump administration, acting as a special advisor in the EPA, a non-legal position. Before that, he worked at the Florida Department of Financial Services. After President Donald Trump took office in 2025, Donahue returned to the EPA; his current position is senior advisor in the agency’s Office of the Administrator.
[...]
At the March confirmation hearings, Donahue acknowledged that his partner, Trent
Morse, serves as deputy assistant to the president and deputy director of presidential personnel. In that role, Morse is responsible for vetting political
appointees like Donahue.
[...]
U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) said during the March confirmation hearing
that Donahue “may be the most unfit nominee ever for the role of any federal agency’s general counsel,” adding, “He would have trouble getting an entry-level
legal position in any of our offices.”
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09042025/trump-nominee-epa-top-lawyer-sean-donahue-legal-qualifications/
Donahue was fired after only 18 months at the first — and *only* — job he had at
a law firm after graduating from an academic backwater law school, Florida State. He has never taken a deposition and never taken a trial to a verdict.
He is emblematic of the criminal Nazi filth Trump regime's obsession with nominating the Worst and the Stupidest.
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