Delusion: Amy and Nina Rifkind Know Exactly How Grandpa Would Size Up Paul Weiss' Dealmaking with Trump Administration
In family conflicts inevitable is this: One or more members pipe up with "Grandpa/Grandma would be turning in their graves if they found out you made that decision." That's usually pure staging. But if they really believe that those who had passed over decades ago would object strenuously to a whatever in the present they are delusional. The raw reality is that everything changes. The world changes. The family changes. The individual members change. And if the deceased were alive today they probably would have undergone many a psychic shift as well as transformations in how they used to behave. So, it's a stunner that the granddaughters of the late Judge Simon Rifkind - Amy and Nina - are absolutely certain how that revered figure would size up the deal that current Paul Weiss chair Brad Karp made with the Trump administration. The two have been busy. They sent a letter to Karp, essentially saying that, yes, Judge Rifkind would be turning over in his grave. That...