After targeting Trump lawyers, including John Eastman who spoke at the David Horowitz Freedom Center several times, using disbarment and criminal prosecution against conservative lawyers, Democrats and their media are shocked and outraged at having it done to them.
Trump’s Latest Weapon Against Critics: Destroying Their Lawyers
When a president uses executive power to not just blacklist but effectively destroy a major law firm, solely for representing political opponents, it means he’s given up any pretense that he’s not an authoritarian hellbent on destroying anyone who opposes him through any means necessary. Donald Trump’s executive order targeting Perkins Coie isn’t just an attack on one firm — it’s a blueprint for how authoritarian leaders can grossly abuse government power to chill speech and discourage legal challenges to a vast campaign of abuses of their authority.
Why might Trump have an issue with Perkins Coie? Perkins Coie was at the center of Russiagate which was probably the worst abuse of authority at every level in a generation. But Trump didn’t touch Perkins Coie until the Democrats set new rules by going after his lawyers.
Destroying lawyers for representing political opponents is literally what the Democrats began doing in 2020. That means they have less leg to stand on than a crippled flamingo trying to catch a cab.
Perkins Coie is most miffed and is wrapping itself in the Constitution like it’s 40 below zero and the firm is only wearing a t-shirt.
In the lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court in Washington, D.C., attorneys for Perkins Coie call the executive order “an affront to the Constitution and our adversarial system of justice.”
“Its plain purpose is to bully those who advocate points of view that the President perceives as adverse to the views of his Administration, whether those views are presented on behalf of paying or pro bono clients,” the lawsuit says.
What was the Perkins Coie position on raiding lawyers for political opponents, enlisting them to turn on their clients and disbarring lawyers for representing them?
Targeting lawyers is wrong… except when they do it.
Editorial: John Eastman tried to help Trump overturn the 2020 election. Of course he should be disbarred – Los Angeles Times Editorial Board
A State Bar Court judge on Wednesday ruled — appropriately and wisely — that in providing legal cover for Trump’s dishonest bid to subvert the 2020 election, Eastman violated his oath, undermined the quest for truth and justice, and inflicted serious and perhaps lasting damage on the very institutions of democracy and law that are the foundation of his profession.
Did the deceptions at the heart of Russiagate inflict “serious and perhaps lasting damage on the very institutions of democracy” and did it subvert an election?
Unquestionably. Goose meet gander.
Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
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