Lawyers and Judges as Enemies?

Impacts of the Trump Administration on our Legal and Justice System

Selective Harrassment of Perceived Enemies in the Legal Professions

  • Read here about which law firms have been targeted, and why.

  • Read here about early efforts by the American Bar Association to prevent targeted harrassment of law firms by the Trump Administration. The ABA is the U.S. accrediting body of law schools, the promulgater of ethical standards for the legal profession, and a membership organization for lawyers with over 170,000 members.

  • More recently, the ABA adopted a resolution opposing government efforts to punish “lawyers, law firms, or other organizations for representing or having represented any particular client or cause disfavored by the government.” The resolution went on to say that the rule of law “will not long survive if lawyers and law firms are threatened and punished for doing their jobs and if judges are threatened with punishment for doing their jobs.” Read more about this here.

Selective Harrassment of Perceived Enemies within the Judicial System

  • Read here about what judges who have ruled against the Trump Administration have been experiencing.

  • Read here comments by the American Bar Association in defense of judges attacked by the Trump Administration.