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Uncle Joe

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Mon May 5, 2025, 07:18 PM Monday

History won't be kind to Trump's lawyers

U.S. President Donald Trump directed Attorney General Pam Bondi “to seek sanctions against attorneys and law firms who engage in frivolous, unreasonable, and vexatious litigation,” including legal filings for improper purposes and statements that are not based on evidence.

Bondi should start with the White House attorneys who drafted Trump’s executive orders targeting Big Law firms—and her Justice Department lawyers trying to defend them.

Did Real Lawyers Write These Orders?

Cloaked in empty rhetoric about “conduct detrimental to critical American interests,” retribution is at the core of Trump’s edicts.

For example, the only detailed rationale for Trump’s Jenner & Block order was the firm’s association with Andrew Weissmann, who returned to the firm in 2020 after completing his work for Special Counsel Robert Mueller on the Trump-Russia investigation. Other than the Weissmann diatribe, Trump’s order merely recited vague and unsupported assertions about alleged “partisan ‘lawfare,’” “abuse of its pro bono practice,” and “racial discrimination.”

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https://www.alternet.org/trumps-lawyers-2671894153/

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History won't be kind to Trump's lawyers (Original Post) Uncle Joe Monday OP
oblivion creon Monday #1
History will not be kind to them,,, Old Testament Libera Tuesday #2
2. History will not be kind to them,,,
Tue May 6, 2025, 02:05 AM
Tuesday

,,,but the bar associations may be even more unkind, and the criminal justice system could be even extremely unkind to them.

For Pam Bondi and all Trump's Department of Injustice goons - you have trampled the Constitution, lied to judges in court, obfuscated and slow-walked court orders. Action against you will be forthcoming:

Disbar
Prosecute
Lock up

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