[Podcast] The President Declared War on Lawyers—And If You Don’t Fight Back, You’re Surrendering the Constitution
This isn’t just a legal crisis. It’s a constitutional one.
Donald Trump has turned the presidency into a weapon against the legal profession. Law firms are being named in executive orders. Banned from federal buildings. Stripped of contracts. Punished—not for breaking the law—but for daring to defend it.
Firms like Covington, Perkins Coie, WilmerHale, and Paul Weiss have been targeted. Why? Because they represented clients Trump doesn’t like. Because they upheld the principle that everyone deserves a defense—even when it’s inconvenient to power.
This is the slow death of democracy. Not with a…
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