The very career experience that makes Supreme Court candidate Judge J. Michelle Childs attractive to both Democrats and Republicans may now be complicating her potential nomination.
"If we have any doubt about where [the nominee] stands on labor rights or the power of corporations verses labor in our economy right now, we should not put them forward and we would actively oppose them," he said.claims"one of the largest and most experienced" labor and employment law practices in the Carolinas, touting"litigation skills to aggressively pursue any matter through trial when it is in the best interests of the employers we represent.
"I would not characterize her work as anti-union or anti-employee," said Nexsen Pruet managing partner Leighton Lord, who joined the firm a year after Childs and worked alongside her for many years. While some critics have accused Childs of working against unionization drives, Nexsen Pruet says it has never conducted any such campaigns and only has a single lawyer on staff specializing in union issues -- one who joined four years after Childs left the firm.House Majority Whip James Clyburn, D-S.C., addresses reporters during a news conference to unveil the Joseph H. Rainey Room at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Feb. 3, 2022.
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