For My Enemies, Lawfare – The American Mind

Too often we focus only on lawfare against Trump. But more than 100 Trump family members, supporters, and advisors were also pursued. More than a dozen Trump lawyers have been disbarred, or face disbarment and other financially devastating discipline, for giving legal advice to Trump and his campaign. They don t have Trump s financial resources or support network. The Supreme Court is not about to confer immunity on them, and in most instances, the proceedings against them are at the state level, preventing Trump from granting pardons or clemency.

While the press immediately came to the defense of Perkins Coie and other law firms in Trump s orders, most national media have been silent about, or have actively cheered on, the assaults on John Eastman, Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis, Kenneth Chesebro, Sidney Powell, Christina Bobb, Jeffrey Clark, and other Trump lawyers.

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Kenin M. Spivak.

The ruthlessness with which Justice Thomas was pursued by my Big Name law firm in DC back in the day got me thinking what was happening thirty-some years ago. It has gradually and now suddenly gotten much worse. The legal profession has probably always leaned somewhat left but lately it has gotten much worse. Even at my small and formerly cute university I saw this in action. Conservative colleagues were harassed in various ways, led by astonishingly ignorant students and their secret faculty supporters, then I was notably (at least to me) harassed. Subsequently a bunch of us retired, related in various degrees to the ideological drift of the law school. Beneath its cute surface, my law school turned out to be only superficially cute. Deeper down she was a harridan. Official looking signs asserting you could be any gender you liked and use the Gents or the Ladies appeared on the washroom doors, faculty meetings went from bad to worse, and an indefinable chill settled over lecture classes. I sort of defied the atmosphere, and look where that got me.

Law firm applications have gone up 40 percent this cycle, an extraordinary leap. My guess is this is not because all of the young men who voted for Trump want to be lawyers — quite the contrary. I predict the legal profession will continue its lean or rather now lurch to the left. I don’t know what the consequences will be, but they won’t be good. Many thought leaders on X say woke is dead and that we’re healing from woke. I’m not so sure. Personally it feels to me more like we’re a giant ameba splitting in two.