Law firms refuse to represent Trump opponents in the wake of his attacks [View all]
Source: Washington Post
Trump on Friday ordered Attorney General Pam Bondi to expand the campaign by sanctioning lawyers who “engage in frivolous, unreasonable, and vexatious litigation” against his administration.
Legal scholars say there is little precedent in modern U.S. history for Trump’s actions. But the president is following a playbook from other countries whose leaders have sought to undermine democratic systems and the rule of law, including Russia, Turkey and Hungary. Leaders in those countries have similarly attacked lawyers with the effect of hollowing out a pillar of justice systems to expand their power without violating existing laws. They have successfully used the strategy to blast away their political opposition and any effort to counter their actions through courts.
“The law firms have to behave themselves,” Trump said at a Cabinet meeting on Monday. “They behave very badly, very wrongly.”
“It’s scary,” said a former official in the administration of Joe Biden who has been pulled into Trump-era litigation and needed a lawyer as a result. The former official had lined up one pro bono lawyer from a major law firm that, the day after an executive order this month against the heavyweight law firm Perkins Coie, said that it had discovered a conflict of interest and dropped the person as a client.
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