question for lawyers on here:
it’s pretty clear that donnyboy’s attorneys are lying through their teeth to the judge—isn’t that really stressful?
If you go to law school and pass the bar there must be a lot of times that you go over that part about telling the truth, amirite?
Violating one’s oath has got to take a toll—when does one of them crack?
#DJT uses #DOJ HQ as a makeshift #Drumpf rally stage today in front of top US #LawEnforcement officials. #PamBondi intro's him with personal note that dept's sworn officers "will never stop fighting for him". President ranted into the mic today referring to dept lawyers that previously targeted his criminality as the "Department of Injustice". He spent his time inside the Robert F. Kennedy bldg addressing his personal #attorneys who are now the dept's leadership, lambasting #disloyal media figures as "scum" whose comments should be "illegal".
"During a tirade against the #FBI, the president touted his actions to revoke security clearances for those who had investigated him and the removal of FBI agents associated with Jan. 6 investigations" then he falsely claimed that the prices of gasoline and #eggs have fallen, when anyone buying them knows they have not.
He referred to investigators behind previous #SpecialCounsel #RussiaInvestigation as "violent" and ended on a note referencing the pullout of troops out of #Afghanistan that "the people who did this to us should go to jail, they should go to jail. So, I just want to say, God bless America because we have to say #GodBless. We're lucky we're still here."
https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/trump-doj-speech-law-and-order/
Yesterday a #Federal judge barred parts of an insane illegal heavy handed and chilling childlike #DJT #ExecutiveOrder targeting exclusively employees and clients of a large influential #DC #beltway #lawfirm he doesn't like.
Known as #PerkinsCoie , the 100+ yr old firm started in #Seattle and has long represented biz & top tech clients including #Amazon & #Microsoft etc, as well as many other #Fortune500 names .
The #RWNJ #HoiPolloi anger at the firm has to do with the fact #PerkinsCoie attorneys helped commission the embarrassing and disputed #SteeleDossier that included allegations against a failed NJ casino operator turned political candidate.who eventually became President TWICE!
The far reaching petty #policestate and draconian #Drumpf overreach would've made it virtually impossible for #employees or any of the 1000+ #attorneys at the firm to do biz in #DC . The order barred firm partners from even speaking to #federalemployees, or to physically enter any govt #property including #courtrooms etc.
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/12/perkins-coie-executive-order-restraining-order
KS Supreme Court forms committee to address AI use https://www.byteseu.com/796455/ #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #attorneys #committee #Court #Judicial #Kansas #LEGAL #Supreme #system
BREAKING: President #Trump instructs the termination of ALL “#Biden Era” U.S. #attorneys.
Interim US Attorney Ed Martin announced dismissal this afternoon of roughly 80 #FBI #federalprosecutors #DOJ #attorneys who worked on #CapitolRiots cases #jan6th in #DC office over past 4 yrs two...cuts amount to about 8% of office’s prosecutors. Combined with a recently announced freeze on #hiring #promotions, the openings will have impacts across office’s #civil #appellate #SuperiorCourt and #violentcrime divisions, where some prosecutors had been previously reassigned. https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/01/31/jan6-prosecutors-fired-dc-martin/
Kansas Supreme Court chief justice warns of ‘all-out crisis’ in access to legal services
The justice spoke of "a growing divide between people with the means to access basic legal services and people who need those services but cannot afford them or, even if they can, are unable to find an attorney within a reasonable driving distance to represent them.”
#OklahomaVoice #Kansas #Justice #Attorneys #LegalServices
https://oklahomavoice.com/2025/01/16/kansas-supreme-court-chief-justice-warns-of-all-out-crisis-in-access-to-legal-services/
No president has ever attempted to do what Donald Trump now proposes to do
—assemble a small team of former #personal #attorneys and install it at the highest levels of the Department of Justice.
The president-elect first named lawyers who have represented him in recent years to the key positions of deputy attorney general, principal deputy attorney general, and solicitor general.
Then, with the quick death of the Matt Gaetz nomination, he announced a new attorney-general nominee, Pam Bondi, who was a member of his legal defense team in the first impeachment.
The Justice Department’s responsibilities have always been subject to competing expectations:
that it would keep politics out of law enforcement but, like other departments, would loyally serve the president in the implementation of his governing program.
The results have been uneven, and at times disastrous, as with Richard Nixon and the Watergate scandal.
But when problems arose, they were relatively localized:
the product of poor appointments, or the failure of particular presidents in particular situations to respect institutional values and norms.
What the DOJ faces now is different in kind:
a vision of White House control achieved through the appointments of individuals the president has chosen 
because they have worked for him and demonstrated their loyalty.
The pressing question now is whether these lawyers may be, as the president-elect likely hopes, the “president’s lawyers” in more than one sense.
We need to consider whether some #lawyers are over their #ethics skis with commercial #ai software, including #attorneys employed by large #nonlawyer companies that earn passive income from selling it.
Then They Caged The #Lawyers....
#Navalny's #Attorneys Put On #Putin #ShowTrial In #Russia After Death Of #Dissident Voice
https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2024/09/12/the-trial-of-lawyers-who-once-represented-late-kremlin-foe-navalny-gets-underway-in-russia #AssociatedPress #worldnewsRussia
#RAGA had an arm called the "Rule of Law Defense Fund,"
deployed
to do #robocalls, to 
urge people to go to the Jan. 6 events that Trump said would be wild, to go there on the day that Congress was supposed to be certifying the election, as he was mounting this intimidation campaign against [Vice President Mike] Pence, unleashing his followers to assail him.
And this is in the context of weeks of efforts by Trump and his lawyers and advisers --- trying to help him execute a coup.
You had the #state #attorneys #general actively involved in some of this litigation to try 
️to stop other states from certifying the election. ️
The group itself through this "Rule of Law Defense Fund" was actively involved in 
peddling the big lucrative lie about the election to push people to go to the mall on Jan. 6.
There was sort of shock and horror that a group of state attorneys general would be involved in trying to aid the precursor events to the violent insurrection at the Capitol.
And big companies 
said they weren’t going to fund RAGA.
And so 
for a moment there, there was a bright light shining on RAGA and on the events around the capital and these AGs.
But then months later, some of those companies came back to fund RAGA.
The #accountability light was ON and then OFF for the companies that were funding RAGA in 2020.
In addition to #Leonard #Leo’s network, #Koch Industries, #Comcast, #Walmart, #Home Depot, #Amazon, #TikTok, 1-800-CONTACTS, #Chevron, the #NRA, #Monsanto, #Facebook, Fox, #Uber, #Coca-#Cola, #Exxon, and #Google were some of the main funders of it.
Of course it didn’t last.
Leonard Leo continues to be the biggest subsidizer of RAGA through the money that is coming through his network,
but it’s also the case that they’re facing 
no consequences,
basically allowing them to just get away with it.
There’s been no consequence for them, and the Rule of Law Defense Fund still exists.
RAGA still exists, and many of these attorneys general have been actively involved in other efforts that make it 
harder for Americans to vote, and they may well be involved this fall in a repeat of 2020 in terms of their efforts to protect Trump at any cost.
Trump’s Allies Are Winning the War Over Disinformation
Projects to combat #Disinformation that were once bipartisan,
-- including one started by the Trump administration,
-- have been recast as deep-state conspiracies to rig elections.
Facing legal and political blowback, the Biden administration has largely abandoned moves that might be construed as stifling political speech.
While little noticed by most Americans, the effort has helped cut a path for Mr. Trump’s attempt to recapture the presidency.
Disinformation about elections is once again coursing through news feeds, aiding Mr. Trump as he fuels his comeback with falsehoods about the 2020 election.
“The censorship cartel must be dismantled and destroyed, and it must happen immediately,” Trump thundered at the start of his 2024 campaign.
The counteroffensive was led by former Trump aides and allies who had also pushed to overturn the 2020 election.
They include Stephen #Miller, the White House policy adviser;
the #attorneys #general of Missouri and Louisiana, both Republicans;
and lawmakers in Congress like Representative Jim #Jordan, Republican of Ohio, who since last year has led a House subcommittee to investigate what it calls “the weaponization of government.
Appeals court reverses much of judge's order blocking Biden administration officials from communicating with social media companies
A federal appeals court narrowed a judge’s order that blocked Biden administration officials from communicating with social media companies.
With its new ruling Friday, the US 5th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed much of the controversial order issued as part of a lawsuit brought by #Republican #attorneys #general that claimed the #administration engaged in unconstitutional censorship in its efforts to #combat #Covid19 #disinformation.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/08/politics/biden-administration-social-media-lawsuit/index.html
A recent #Teneo fundraising email laid out how the group can bring its members' influence together in service of a cause.
To “confront” what he dubbed “woke capitalism,” Jonathan #Bunch, a longtime Leo deputy and now Teneo board member, wrote that the group had brought together a coalition of Teneans “working with (or serving as) state #attorneys #general, state #financial #officers, state #legislators, #journalists, media #executives and best-in-class public affairs #professionals” to launch investigations, hold hearings, pull state investment funds and publish op-eds and news stories in response to so-called environmental, social and governance, or ESG, policies at the corporate level.
“Our members were in the rooms where it happened,” Bunch wrote.
Another project underway, #Baehr explained in a 2020 presentation, was a “#surreptitious and #exciting” effort to map key institutions in major cities — private #schools, #countryclubs, #newspapers, #Rotary and so on — and find ways to get Teneo members inside those institutions and help members connect with each other.
The initiative has begun by mapping Atlanta and several cities in Texas
