Harvard Between Courage and Disgrace -- Robert Kuttner -The American Prospect

[erronis]

https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2025-03-31-harvard-between-courage-and-disgrace/

On Saturday, 82 members of Harvard Law School’s teaching faculty out of 118 sent an open letter to Harvard law students, warning of the dire threats to civil liberties and the rule of law. The letter said, in part:

The rule of law is imperiled when government leaders:

- single out lawyers and law firms for retribution based on their lawful and ethical representation of clients disfavored by the government, undermining the Sixth Amendment;

- threaten law firms and legal clinics for their lawyers’ pro bono work or prior government service;

- relent on those arbitrary threats based on public acts of submission and outlays of funds for favored causes; and

- punish people for lawfully speaking out on matters of public concern.

The Constitution, the letter added, was designed to enable political disagreement without fear of punishment. “Neither a law school nor a society can properly function amidst such fear,” the letter concluded.

The letter was a rebuke not just to Trump and to the law firms that have given in to Trump’s shakedowns. It was a rebuke to Harvard’s leadership, which has been among the most cowardly of any major university.

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[bdamomma]

1. They are

burning us down and our society, WE RISE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Solly Mack]

2. K&R