Michael T. van der Veen (born 1963)[1][better source needed][2] is an American attorney who specializes in criminal and personal injury law.[3] He represented former president Donald Trump during his second impeachment trial in the United States Senate, which resulted in acquittal on February 13, 2021.
Van der Veen attended Choate Rosemary Hall in Connecticut, graduating in 1981. He attended Ohio Wesleyan University and graduated in 1985. He attended Quinnipiac University School of Law, receiving his Juris Doctor degree in 1988 and the Temple University Beasley School of Law, receiving his LLM in 1995. He is admitted to the bar in Illinois, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey.[3]
an der Veen has been an attorney since 1988. He is a founder of the Philadelphia criminal and personal injury law firm, Van der Veen, O'Neill, Hartshorn, Levin. His litigation practice includes criminal and personal injury litigation. He has also represented clients in connection with a construction accident, an antitrust matter, a product defect suit against a toy manufacturer, a case of corporate embezzlement, a suit seeking to legalize the use of clean hypodermic needles to combat the spread of HIV/AIDS, and police brutality claims. He has also represented criminal defendants accused of rape, drunk driving, and murder.[3] He also represented a man who claimed to have been served a fried rat at a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant.[4]
In August 2020, Van der Veen represented a client suing President Donald Trump alleging that Trump's attacks on the U.S. Postal Service were unsupported by evidence.[5][6] The suit alleged: "These actions... arise in an environment subject to repeated claims by President Donald J. Trump that voting by mail is ripe with fraud, despite having no evidence in support of these claims, and lawsuits filed by the Trump campaign to stop mail-in voting in states such as Nevada and Pennsylvania."[7]
Trump impeachment trial
On February 12, 2021, Van der Veen presented arguments for the defense of Donald Trump at the former president's second impeachment trial.[8] On February 13, 2021, the Senate reacted with gasps and laughter when Van der Veen stated he would seek to depose at least 100 people for the trial at his Philadelphia office, including Nancy Pelosi and Vice President Kamala Harris.[9][10][11][12][13][14]
Following Van der Veen's defense, the Senate voted 57-43 to convict, which was short of the required two-thirds majority and thereby acquitted Donald Trump of the charge of inciting insurrection in the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.[15] Seven Republican senators voted to convict Donald Trump, the largest bipartisan vote for an impeachment conviction of a U.S. president.[16]
Van der Veen was played by Pete Davidson in the cold open of Saturday Night Live on February 13, 2021. Davidson satired Van der Veen's use of the term "Jiminy Cricket" and his mispronunciation of Philadelphia.[17]
Van der Veen is a common Dutch surname, meaning "from the fen" or more generally "from the peatlands". In the Netherlands 19,847 people carried the name in 2007, making it the 32nd most common surname there.[1] Dutch surnames with the same origin and meaning are Van Veen, Van de Ven/Van der Ven, Van de Venne, Veen, and Veenstra/Feenstra. The name was often taken by peat workers, as harvest of turf for fuel was abundant in the Netherlands. Since the early Middle Ages, the quarry of fens (laagveen, "low fen") in the north and west created, merged or extended many lakes, most of which have now been reclaimed as polders. The harvest of turf from bogs (hoogveen, "high fen") in the east, like the large Bourtange moor, extended until the 20th century.
The character's name is a play on the exclamation "Jiminy Cricket!", a minced oath for "Jesus Christ" – which itself was uttered in Pinocchio's immediate Disney predecessor, 1937's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs by the seven dwarfs themselves. Other contemporary cinematic examples include: In the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy (Judy Garland) cries, "Oh! Oh! Jiminy Crickets!" when she is startled by the Wizard's pyrotechnics; likewise, Garland uses the expression in the 1938 film Listen, Darling; several times it is used in the 1930 movie Anna Christie; and it occurs in the 1938 Mickey Mouse cartoon "Brave Little Tailor". In addition, Jiminy Crickets is used in the 1919 novelty song Oh By Jingo! as a euphemism for children ("We'll have a lot of little Jiminy Crickets, we can use them for meal tickets").
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