Leftist lawyers. It is always them.
The first i saw it being used in the states here is by the CAIR muslims. The democrats adopted the strategy of course given that islam is the militant arm of the democrat party.
Right. They invented it.
Recently Marxist show trials raised it to an art form. (NYT and reporter Duranty covering Stalinist Show trials.) Show trials are part and parcel of Leftist Theatre agitation propaganda. (Agit Prop..An enterprise set up by the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party in 1920 intended to control and promote the ideological conditioning of the masses. Art and Posters are what is usually considered agit-prop. (Bad art makes some of the the best propaganda....Orwell)).
In schema of Dantean circles of hell, there is a circle of boiling pitch reserved for corrupt politicians and barrators.