Below is my column in The Hill on the recent opinion blocking President Donald Trump’s executive order sanctioning the law firm of Perkins Coie for its role, on behalf of the Clinton campaign, in the Russian collusion scandal. The opposition to the order has taken on a certain Shakespearean flare that conceals the underlying hypocrisy of many of these lawyers.Here is the column:
“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.”
Those ominous words from Shakespeare’s Henry IV appeared at the start of the opinion of Senior District Judge Beryl Howell, an Obama appointee. She was writing to bar Trump from carrying out his executive order penalizing law firm Perkins Coie for its conduct during the 2016 election.
Howell would have been wise to add the lines that appeared later in the same play: “Presume not that I am the thing I was.” The fact is that many of those objecting today to the targeting of Democratic firms and lawyers were the very same people who targeted Republican lawyers for years — or remained utterly silent as those attacks unfolded.
After Howell’s opinion, Perkins Coie issued a statement to NBC News that the ruling “affirms … the right to select counsel without the fear of retribution.” But that is a luxury that conservative lawyers have not known for years.
For the record, I opposed the executive orders of President Trump targeting law firms. But it will take more than a Shakespearean flourish to erase the hypocrisy of many lawyers, law schools, and bar groups in this controversy.
In prior years, Democratic groups unleashed a campaign to pressure firms to fire lawyers who represented Trump, the Republican Party, or conservative causes. That included boycotts and pressure campaigns targeting their clients. They were using the same tactic others used against figures like Elon Musk when he purchased Twitter and sought to dismantle its censorship system.
Their pressure campaigns worked. I personally know lawyers who were told to drop Republican cases or else find new employment — including partners who had to leave their longstanding firms.
Some of the letters signed recently by deans and law professors protesting Trump’s orders previously purged their schools of Republicans and conservatives. With only 9 percent of law professors identifying as conservative, most faculties have practically no Republicans or conservatives left.
These campaigns went beyond law firms. Trump Accountability Project, led by former Obama and Buttigieg staffers, made lists of Trump administration officials to hound them out of any employment opportunities.
These blacklists later morphed into a demand for the disbarment of dozens of lawyers and members of Congress.
It is true that these efforts are privately driven — much like the censorship campaigns on social media. But these campaigns often sought to target and harass lawyers and law firms to coerce them into not representing certain Republican clients or causes.
In 2021, I wrote about these campaigns, including one well-funded effort by the Lincoln Project calling upon its nearly 3 million followers to hound attorneys assisting the Trump team in legal battles. It named them and tweeted, “Make them famous,” with an emoji depicting a skull-and-crossbones.
The listed donors of the Lincoln Project are a who’s who of leading lawyers at some of the very firms now objecting to the effort to “intimidate” them today. One such lawyer is Randall Eliason, a past donor to the Lincoln Project who previously defended the campaign against other lawyers.
At the time, Eliason insisted that such campaigns are appropriate and even commendable. After all, he insisted, “these mega-law firms are also big businesses. Like any business, they can be held accountable by the public — and by their other customers.” Now, Eliason is appalled by Trump’s effort “to sanction law firms for doing nothing more than representing clients Trump doesn’t like.”
In fairness, the distinction between boycott campaigns and government actions is legally important. However, there remains a glaring inconsistency in the underlying principles in both governmental and non-governmental campaigns to hound and intimidate lawyers. Boycotts are an important form of public protest, but boycotting law firms and blacklisting lawyers due to their clients is both imprudent and dangerous … including when private parties do it.
Even a mere discussion of legal issues can trigger such cancel campaigns, as I discovered decades ago. What was striking was how lawyers joined such efforts to pressure my school to get me fired or silenced. Just last year, a Democratic donor and a senior partner at Dentons LLP, one of the largest firms in Washington, wrote to my dean to pledge his own boycott. Using his firm title and email, he told me (and the dean) that I had better “stop running your mouth” because my opposing views would not be tolerated. Even law professors have joined in such calls.
These “shut up or else” letters have an impact on deans, who are already not especially inclined to hire conservative or libertarian academics.
Lawyers at these same firms are now adopting a truly Shakespearean pose as heroic champions of free speech and free thought. For many conservatives and Republicans, it is about as convincing as MacBeth claiming to be a pacifist.
The media have also joined in this hypocrisy. For example, 60 Minutes recently featured Marc Elias as a victim of a Trump order in a segment that portrayed Trump as akin to a “mob boss.”
Host Scott Pelley never informed the viewers of Elias’s checkered career history as the lawyer solemnly intoned that “Donald Trump is the walking embodiment of everything that is wrong with the American political system.”
That is precisely the accusation leveled by many against Elias, who has been denounced as a Democratic “dirty trickster” and even an “election denier.” He was the general counsel to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign when it funded the infamous Steele dossier and pushed the false Alfa Bank conspiracy. (His fellow Perkins Coie partner, Michael Sussmann, was indicted but acquitted in a criminal trial.)
Clinton campaign officials denied any involvement in the Steele Dossier, but it was discovered after the election that the Clinton campaign had hidden its payments for the dossier as “legal fees” paid to Perkins Coie.
New York Times reporter Ken Vogel said that Elias specifically denied involvement in the anti-Trump dossier. When Vogel tried to report the story, he said, Elias “pushed back vigorously, saying ‘You (or your sources) are wrong.’” Times reporter Maggie Haberman also wrote, “Folks involved in funding this lied about it, and with sanctimony, for a year.” Elias was also present when John Podesta, Clinton’s campaign chairman, denied categorically to congressional investigators that there was any contractual agreement with Fusion GPS.
The Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee were ultimately sanctioned by the FEC over the handling of the funding at Perkins Coie. The DNC later cut ties with Elias and, in 2021, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals sanctioned him for misconduct. In Maryland, his legal group was found to be pushing a gerrymandered map that the court found would “subvert the will of those governed.”
Pelley and CBS did not consider any of that relevant for viewers to know about their purported victim.
Once again, this does not excuse the current targeting of law firms and lawyers. However, there could be a modicum of recognition of the years of systematically purging conservative lawyers and law professors by some of these very critics.
Trump, to quote King Lear, is saying, “The wheel is come full circle, I am here.” He would have done better to preserve the high ground. However, when it comes to some of his critics, this performance can come across as more of a comedy than a tragedy.
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University
It was not a Hoax,
It was the deliberate betrayal manufactured by narratives to coerce with; lies, conjecture, and innuendo the outcome of a National Election,
The Think Tanks ‘produce’ them (Narratives),
The Large Law firms ‘proliferate’ them, [to] smaller Research Groups (Assets) that provide the underwriting,
The Media disseminates the manufactured Narrative.
The Bench exonerates and exculpates it.
When all goes well the Shadow psychology of the narrative just does it’s job and the goal is met (i.e.: Elects the desired Candidate to Office),
while most of it slides under the radar of the unassuming Public.
When things go badly, The Media Disinformation Networks go to work negating loose ends. Should issues raise the bar from there, the Judiciary (Judge) overrules the sought Justice with ‘Permanent Injunctive Relief ‘, providing a ‘cover-up’ for the Perpetrators (Businesses/Law Firms), and censorship effectively submarines the issue.
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This is a Practical Problem and a Partisan problem.
If Law Firms are allowed to continue proliferating manufactured narratives, and devising methods to coerce the outcome of Elections.
Then The Largest Law firms and best devised Narrative will choose whom will be the winner of the Election.
Don’t pretend that this is a Democracy, this isn’t a case of political Mud Slinging.
It is the deliberate subversion of the Constitutional processes.
Regarding Senior District Judge Beryl Howell,
It not her job to provide excuses, it is her job to provide just-remedies.
With her opinion She has taken her place in the cover-up of the subversion by Perkins Coie on the behalf of the Clinton Election Campaign and DNC.
Should it stand “Permanently”, then We the People have lost our Constitution to the will of Large Law Firms and narrow secular Political Interest.
The Problem is, she has set it up to set a precedence, by her:
” … Summary Judgment and Declaratory and Permanent Injunctive Relief (“Pl.’s MSJ”), ECF No. 182,
is granted.” …
Howell’s opinion is poised as a Permanent Injunctive Relief, on the ability of the Executive Branch to legally leverage sanctions upon Businesses (i.e.: Perkins Coie, a large law firm) via executive Orders. Particularly when the Business has engaged in the subversion of Constitutional processes (Elections) and Affairs of State (i.e.: Disinformation of the sovereign nation of Russia, via Fusion GPS Russian Collusion narrative disseminated in the Steele dossier ).
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Here’s the Fear
Should this stand: (A dystopian Projection of Law Firms protected by this Permanent Injunctive Relief )
The Top 100 Law Firms will begin to compete for the Title-bout of the Presidential Election every 4 years,
by producing the Subversive Narrative(s) necessary to derive the desired Election outcome, to whom ever can pay the most (DNC,GOP, CORP, or Other etc.).
Spurs of Betting platforms such as ‘ElectionKings’ (e.g.: DraftKings betting platform) will propagate to hedge the Election outcomes.
[It opens to the door so You can bet on (count on) which Law Firm will deliver the Vote by use of subversive-narrative and win the Election ]
We will become a People ruled by; Gigantic Law Firms, Think Tanks, Research Firms, Mainstream Media, Wealthy Parties, and Junior Courts.
It doesn’t take much to see that this is simple to do and for simple minds to do it. The Dystopian Democracy
Perkins Coie, The Clinton Election Campaign, the DNC, Senior District Judge Beryl Howell , The Biden Admin, and the Autopen has already proved this.
It’s Real History. You can ‘Bet’ on it (and I am certain some had).
This matter (the power of this Permanent Injunctive Relief) needs to squashed here and now! ‘URGENT’
-If first you can’t succeed, [per Judge Beryl Howell’s Opinion] then try try again-
Go after the Client. Who hired Perkins Coie for the Clinton campaign? (Names)
This is Perkins-Coie Gate, it leads right to the Top.
This is the most sickening ‘thing’.
It makes Watergate look minuscule,
They set out to coerce the outcome of a presidential Election, and destroy a 1st. Family.
What they did was unforgivable.
When you have Justice obstructing Justice …
Where do you go from here? [Jonathan]
Don’t be deceived by Judge Beryl Howell. She’s just protecting Hillary Clinton (et.al.)
The DNC and Perkins Coie confessed in the contravene-position exactly what they claimed the Russians were doing.
The “Russian Collusion” deception narrative encompassed the Influence of the Presidential Election. Where in actuality it was the DNC and Perkins’s coercing influance through the uses of the false narrative that was the modus operandi influencing the outcome of the Election.
This wasn’t a “Hoax”, it is the active Subversion of the Constitution, conducted by the the Hillary Clinton Campaign, DNC, and Perkins Coie.
Truth isn’t Truth in the Shadow (psychology) they used to wield this deception upon the Public.
This is the completely Evil Treason committed by et.al..
Senior District Judge Beryl Howell’s opinion is a continuation of the Cover-Up.
And She knows it.
Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, The DNC, Perkins Coie …
must face the consequences
It’s been 50 years since the start of Watergate.
PerkinsGate Blues is now hot off the Press.
Perkins Coie knew Hillary & Barack knew.
Plus 4 years of Biden ….
We have seen this movie before.
Trump To Scrutinize Pardons Biden Issued Before Leaving Office
President Donald Trump’s newly tabbed pardon attorney said on May 13 that his work will include scrutinizing pardons that former President Joe Biden issued just before leaving office in January.
“I do think that the Biden pardons need some scrutiny. And they need scrutiny because we want pardons to matter and to be accepted and to be something that’s used correctly,” Ed Martin, the pardon attorney, told reporters during a press briefing in Washington.
“So I do think we’re going to take a hard look at how they went and what they did and if they’re, I don’t know, but null and void, I’m not sure how that operates,” he added.
Biden’s pardons, issued in his final hours in office, went to multiple individuals, including former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.).
The pardons were for conduct for which the individuals had not been charged.
Biden said at the time that the people “do not deserve to be the targets of unjustified and politically motivated prosecutions.” …
By: Tyler Durden – May 14, 2025
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-scrutinize-pardons-biden-issued-leaving-office
Covering the Cover Up
Senior District Judge Beryl Howell is the ‘Man on the Inside’ (just one of them).
Judge Rules Democrats Can Get Their Hands On Special Counsel Grand Jury Docs
By: Margot Cleveland ~ October 28, 2019
https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/28/judge-rules-democrats-can-get-their-hands-on-special-counsel-grand-jury-docs/
Time to Impeach D.C. Judge Beryl Howell?
Rudy Giuliani slams D.C. court as “a fascist court.”
By: Jeffrey Lord ~ December 18, 2023
[Link] spectator.org/time-to-impeach-d-c-judge-beryl-howell/
Elise Stefanik Files Ethics Complaint Against Judge Beryl Howell Alleging ‘Highly Inappropriate Political Speech’
By: Debra Heine ~ December 15, 2023
[Link] amgreatness.com/2023/12/15/elise-stefanik-files-ethics-complaint-against-judge-beryl-howell-alleging-highly-inappropriate-political-speech/
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What better cover: (Judge)
Judge Beryl Howell a ‘proverbial rose’ – “If she fell into a pile of sh*t, she’d come out smelling of roses”
Re. Inculpatory evidence:
The Mueller investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and potential ties between the Trump campaign and Russia involved former FBI Director James Comey. Comey was fired by President Trump in May 2017, amidst the ongoing FBI investigation into Russian interference. The Mueller report examined the circumstances surrounding Comey’s firing, including Trump’s requests for his loyalty and his attempt to end the investigation into Michael Flynn.
Comey’s Role:
James Comey served as the FBI Director from 2013 to 2017.
Firing and Investigation: .
Comey was fired by President Trump in May 2017, and the Mueller investigation was launched shortly afterward.
Mueller’s Examination of Comey’s Firing: .
The Mueller report detailed various instances where Trump sought to exert influence over Comey, including requests for loyalty and pressure to close the investigation into Michael Flynn, who was a former national security advisor.
Comey’s Memos: .
Comey documented several meetings with Trump in memos, which were later leaked to the press.
Obstruction of Justice: .
The Mueller investigation, and the subsequent report, examined whether Trump’s actions, including the firing of Comey and attempts to influence him, could be interpreted as obstruction of justice.
Mueller’s Findings: .
The Mueller report concluded that the President had obstructed justice, although it did not reach a conclusion on whether he had committed a crime.
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AS for Trump, The bottom line is that the Russian Collusion was a complete fabrication and an insult to the Russians.Designed to kill tow Birds with one Stone.
Derail Trump and neutralize Him and infuriate the Nation State of Russia, so that the Ukraine-Russo War could escalate into a wider war.
[Book) Non-Fiction History – All The Former Secretary of State’s Men [ISBN: Redacted]
John Eastman was unavailable for comment.
When you narrow it down, Senior District Judge Beryl Howell did not offer any solutions. She ‘side stepped’ it, with a witticism quoted from Shakespeare, typical of those with lesser intellect that uses someone else’s missive and recapitulates it as their (her) own.
What is it Judge Howell, that is the solution for Law Firms (Perkins Coie) engaging in the deception of the Public,
actively interfering and corrupting our Constitutional processes. What Se Ye?
Jonathan: Funny, you start your column by stating “I opposed the executive orders of President Trump targeting law firms”. Then you spend the rest of the column complaining about how you and other Trump supporters have been the victim of boycotts by Democratic aligned groups.
What you are forced to admit is that there is a legal distinction “between boycott campaigns and government actions”. Private boycotts of lawyers and firms representing DJT don’t begin to compare with the DJT EO. What DJT did is unprecedented in the history of the country. DJT used the Presidency to sanction law firms who have clients DJT does not like. DJT’s EO was a “shut up or else” threat that sent a chilling message intended to silence any opposition to his policies. Had Joe Biden done such a thing you would have been clamoring for his impeachment.
Judge Beryl Howell gave summary judgment to Perkins Coie because DJT’s EO was a fundamental violation of the Constitution’s free expression guarantees. That was the part you missed in your column because you were too busy playing the victim!
Rabble Rabble Rabble Rabble Rabble Rabble!
Dennis, your comments remind me of Dathan the complainer depicted in the Ten Commandments, during the Exodus. The President could do or say absolutely nothing to please you.
Your left wing party has no ideas, no solutions, loves suppression of speech, opened wide the border, embraces violent criminals, lethal drugs, endless wars, and Chinese’s slave labor.
Now your party burns the most environmental friendly EV (and the most American) car in the world. Is the new “woke” to drive gas guzzlers? How bizarre!
It is surreal to watch the irrationality of the left’s position. Anything Donald Trump does, do the opposite. So sad!
“I’ve made up my mind! Don’t confuse me with the facts!”
“Below is my column in The Hill on the recent opinion blocking President Donald Trump’s executive order sanctioning the law firm of Perkins Coie…”
Below WHERE? The only thing appearing on this page in my browser this morning is Turley’s introduction. The previous “An Act of Solidarity…” column shows in full. Has someone been futzing around with the WordPress version or scripts again? If so, I strongly suggest leaving well enough alone. Every recent change has seemed to degrade this site (at least the comments section) further. Jerry Pournelle had an observation he repeated often that might be appropriate here: “Better is the enemy of good enough”…
Cut to the chase man. So when the constitution says a right to counsel….that counsel is already owned?
TY, Professor Turley for the highights of this Complete and Total Hypocracy being exhibited by the Democrat Lawyers… However.. let’s spell this out a bit more. Actually the Sanctioning of Perkins Coie for their role in the Steele Dossier Russiagate Hoax makes sense.. as this this was a Deceitful Act in itself.. not just mere blackballing.. this was Federal Election Interference of the highest caliber based on false, dishonest, indeed illegal deeds… Specifically sanctioning Perkins Coie pales in comparison to the Project 65 all our war on any Conservative or even Moderate Lawyer who even thought about taking on any work for anyone even remotely associated wit Donald Trump.. i.e., Project 65 efforts were more on the scale of the relentless ongoing bloody massacre of all the Knights Templar… Alan Dershowitz went into nauseating detail re: the ruthlessness of the attacks to the degree that they wanted Donald Trump et al to be unable to hire any lawyer at all….threatening all prospecs with a campaign to get them disbarred. Even Prof. Dershowitz could not believe the intimidation algorithms used…. Level Setting this…. Donald Trump’s case against Perkins Coie is in a different league and understandable.
The only refugees the left hates.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1921998450104635516
The first legal migrants since 1863.
https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1921998450104635516
Look at those beautiful constitutional, legal, and American-Founder-Approved immigrants admitted to become citizens per the immigration law of the Founders, who established for Americans a Nation, its Law, and its Population.
Did the Catholic Church act as a political entity and implement the bias of affirmative action by surreptitiously appointing an apparently “black” pope?
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AI Overview
The new pope, Pope Leo XIV, has Creole roots in New Orleans, and some historical records describe his maternal grandparents as “mulatto” or Black.
Here’s a breakdown: 1. Pope Leo XIV’s ancestry: His maternal grandparents are described as Black or “mulatto” in historical records, and lived in New Orleans’ Seventh Ward, a traditionally Catholic and diverse area with African, Caribbean, and European roots. His mother, Mildred Martinez, was their daughter, and his father, Louis Prevost, was of French and Italian descent.
Being a Democrat means never having to say you are sorry, or apologize, for your Hypocrisy.
OT
South African ‘faith leaders’ condemn the cutoff of US aid.
https://julieroys.com/huge-suffering-south-africa-faith-leaders-condemn-decimation-us-aid
Why would we give them anything? The despise us. They despise whites and murder them regularly. They despise the West and claim their culture is better. So, take them at their word and let their ‘better’ culture take care of them. I am sure they will create Paradise.
Meanwhile, the Episcopalians refuse to help white refugees from homicidal South Africa. I have doubted Episcopalians are even Christian in spirit much less in belief for a long while now. I wouldn’t be surprised if it evaporates to a stain within the next 50 years.
Looks like they are heading for collapse and starvation.
https://danfromsquirrelhill.wordpress.com/2025/05/12/the-marxist
Couldn’t care less.
SUPPRESS THE REBELLION
Proclamation 80—Calling Forth the Militia and Convening an Extra Session of Congress
“On April 15, 1861,…President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation calling forth the state militias, to the sum of 75,000 troops, in order to suppress the rebellion. He appealed ‘to all loyal citizens to favor, facilitate, and aid this effort to maintain the honor, the integrity, and the existence of our National Union.’”
Proclamation 92—Warning to Rebel Sympathizers
“[On] July 17, 1862,…I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do hereby proclaim to and warn all persons within the contemplation of said sixth section to cease participating in, aiding, countenancing, or abetting the existing rebellion or any rebellion against the Government of the United States and to return to their proper allegiance to the United States on pain of the forfeitures and seizures as within and by said sixth section provided.”
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Abraham Lincoln was a Great American President.
Now President Donald J. Trump MUST implement his rendition of “The Lincoln Era,” close the border, rescind rebel sanctuary cities, compassionately repatriate all illegal and unassimilable aliens, revoke birthright citizenship, make English the sole official language, commence a war to defeat the rebellion, impose martial law, suspend habeas corpus, “smash” rebel printing presses, networks, podcasts, and social media platforms, and imprison political opponents and rebel judges, all in order to save, not the Union, but the Nation, eradicate the communist American welfare state, and place America squarely back on the Constitution and Bill of Rights, including absolute freedom, free enterprise, free industries, free markets, private property, and minimal taxation and regulation, alongside infinitesimal constitutional government.
(SARC/ON)
Kill the lawyers? How about Kill the Republican and his family? Democrats keep stoking violence against Americans
Van Orden Office Statement
May 6, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the office of Congressman Derrick Van Orden (WI-03) released the following statement:
“Rep. Van Orden will be missing votes tomorrow and rescheduling his upcoming town hall due to a credible threat made against his wife, children, and grandchildren. The threat was delivered via a letter to his D.C. office and has been reported to the appropriate authorities.
“No elected official, regardless of political party affiliation, should have to worry about the safety of their family while serving the American people. Threats of political violence are not just dangerous — they are anti-American.
“This type of behavior is the direct result of increasingly radical and violent rhetoric fueled by far-left Democrats who encourage hatred rather than healthy discourse. It is a poison on our nation and every
Member of Congress — Republican or Democrat — should fully condemn it when they see it.
“The Congressman looks forward to returning to D.C. to do the job the people of Wisconsin’s Third District elected him to do. “
Darren, for some reason JT’s article is no longer posted on the site. I’ve check various browsers on my Mac and iPad, and It is still live however at the Hill where it was posted 2 days ago.
FYI
https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/5292875-to-be-or-not-to-be-a-hypocrite-outrage-over-trump-targeting-law-firms-is-shakespearean/
Meanwhile the Democrats are playing their Fascist card in spades. Not sufficient to protect Senator John Fetterman from Republicans when he ran for Senate, and was admitted for psychiatric care, now they are abusing him mentally. From formerly characterizing him as a stable, well-adjusted, capable adult man, now the Hill reports 2 anonymous senators are feeding the news outlet stories that Fetterman is behaving erratically and worse he might be a danger to himself. These are the same fascists who committed elder abuse of Joe Biden, not giving a whit about his condition but propping him up as a dead corpse like a scene from Weekend at Bernie’s, so that he could use an autopen to “sign” their fascist edicts
Truly the Democrats are Satanic
Senate Democrats, worried about Fetterman, discussing ways to help
“Every time I see him, I’m worried about him,” said a Democratic senator who requested anonymity.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5293058-democrats-concerns-over-fetterman-behavior/
One big distinction here is that Trump is using taxpayer financed lawyers (government lawyers) to go after a private law firm. Democrats used private money, not taxpayer money, to fund similar lawsuits.
Taxpayer-financed government attorneys primarily serve the U.S. Constitution and the American people. These attorneys don’t work for Trump at all.
Are your Communist overlords paying you by the word? Is that why you continue to post comment after comment of complete garbage?
A fascist calling anybody and everybody a communist is in the playbook on how to be a fascist.
Except in this case it’s a freedom lover calling a Communist a Communist. The Left in this country is for state-censorship, neighbors snitching on neighbors to the secret police, and an overbearing central government. Whether you want to call that Communist or fascist, it is the opposite of MAGA. MAGA is for small government, personal liberty, and economic freedom. And we’re WINNING.
You’re winning like Charlie Sheen said he was. state-censorship, better check with Oklahoma and Texas. neighbors snitching on neighbors better check with ICE and HLS. Small government? Just as long as the taxpayers pay for Trump’s golf at a couple of million a pop. personal liberty, well, your just joking there right? Better ask students and protestors that dare to question your wanna-be dictator. Economic freedom? for who? Musk.
Tell that to John Eastman.
Trump is not using tax payer funded lawyers to go after private law firms.
Perkins Coi and these other firms as NOT being prosecuted.
They are not being sued by the government
They have merely lost their security clearances for misconduct.
Just like people lose their drivers licenses for speeding.
The state does not send in the state police or the AG to take your license.
It just suspends it.
Trump is suing taxpayer funded lawyers to DEFEND against more woke lawfare.
I would note – that the lawyers going after Trump are free to do so.
The problem is NOT in this instance zealous advocates – even marxists on the left.
it is judges that are ignoring the law and constitution because the share the policy wishes of the plantiffs.
My problem with Professor Harley’s article is he equates the persecution of conservative lawyers equally with Trumps action against the lawyers employed by the DNC/Democrats. This misses an important point, the conservative lawyers representing Trump were doing so from the standpoint of defending him. The DNC lawyers were employed to persecute and attack someone who likely did nothing to deserve such hostile action. Those firms clearly had to know that prior to action. Those two positions are clearly not equivalent or deserving of being looked at equivalently.
yes, this.
time and time again, we see “scholars” who make fanciful artistic expressions on some remote principle…and yet cannot seem to find what really matters, context and truth.
if I am getting punched in the nose over and over, is certainly a reason to defend myself..and once in a position to actually provide for more security, you bet your sweet little Jesus I am going to take it to the bullies.
there IS good and evil in this world. Right and Wrong. Depending on some strained reasons by principle that NO ONE CAN EVER NOR SHOULD EVER TRY TO MAINTAIN is one of the reasons why bad guys do win on a regular basis.
protip: when the time offers the opportunity ALWAYS STRIKE BACK. Not doing so isn’t just weak, it is in fact immoral.
God Bless America
The problem is NOT that private lawfirms went after Trump.
It is that they were reckless regarding national security in doing so.
They made knowingly FALSE claims about Russia.
Ignoring the question of whether the courts should sanction them for that.
Absolutely that recklessness should cost them their security clearances.