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Attacking Law Firms Attacks What Makes America Great | Opinion
Newsweek ^ | Apr 10, 2025 | Bryan Sullivan

Posted on 04/10/2025 6:25:08 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?

"The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom," said the great fictional lawyer Atticus Finch, hero of the beloved classic To Kill a Mockingbird.

Finch maintained that: "Our courts have their faults as does any human institution, but in this country our courts are the great levelers, and in our courts all men are created equal."

Our courts are where people can freely exercise their rights by challenging what they believe is government overreach. What makes it work is our adversarial system in which lawyers zealously represent their clients—even if the case may be unpopular or controversial.

This was recognized by our Founding Fathers even before our country was founded when future President John Adams defended the eight British soldiers who perpetrated the Boston Massacre in 1770.

In our own times, could you imagine an America if Thurgood Marshall had not challenged the racist and offensive "separate but equal" doctrine handed down in Plessy v. Ferguson in Brown v. Board of Education?

But, now, the Trump administration, in an unprecedented move, has gone after law firms that have taken sides against it in the past. On a micro level, that action and similar future threats could cripple and ruin those firms and their partners—canceling security clearances, barring access to government offices and, even more chillingly, telling companies that do business with the government that they must disclose their dealings with the law firms.....

Attacking law firms for the political beliefs of its partners or for the cases they decide to take is wrong on every level, regardless of which side of the aisle you are on.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 1000lawyers; lawyers; trumplawfare; trumplawfirms; trumporder
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“The first thing we do is, let’s kill all the lawyers.” William Shakespeare’s Henry VI, Part II

I seem to recall some law firms refused to represent Trump because of his politics. Now he's returning the favor.

1 posted on 04/10/2025 6:25:08 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

NewsWEAK is transgender


2 posted on 04/10/2025 6:26:35 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

He banned racist firms (aka DEI).


3 posted on 04/10/2025 6:28:18 PM PDT by Rightwing Conspiratr1
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Any law firm that would make America great woyld not seek to usurp authority for itself.


4 posted on 04/10/2025 6:28:45 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (Are you, or have you ever been, a Democrat?)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Weren’t they applauding going after and disbarring law firms and lawyers for representing Trump?
Why yes, yes they did.


5 posted on 04/10/2025 6:28:52 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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Our courts are where people can freely exercise their rights by challenging what they believe is government overreach.

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Now that is really funny! 😉


6 posted on 04/10/2025 6:29:18 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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Attacking Law Firms Attacks What Makes America Great


I have never heard anyone ever say that law firms are what make America great. Never once, until I read this.


7 posted on 04/10/2025 6:30:27 PM PDT by hanamizu ( )
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

We have the highest rate of attorneys/citizens in the entire world, and it is not even close.

No public university should have a law school. We don’t need any more lawyers.


8 posted on 04/10/2025 6:31:58 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of anger, hate and violence.)
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To: SaveFerris

Pretty sure Bryan was crying when he wrote this.


9 posted on 04/10/2025 6:35:43 PM PDT by iamgalt
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Take the law to the firms practicing bigotry and fraud. Of course Newsweak is defending rich people.


10 posted on 04/10/2025 6:44:25 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

What kind of mentality.....?


11 posted on 04/10/2025 6:48:46 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: iamgalt
Pretty sure Bryan was crying when he wrote this.

That's okay; it was counter-balanced by people laughing while reading it.

12 posted on 04/10/2025 6:49:47 PM PDT by MikelTackNailer (Coddling with puppies and Safe Spaces doesn't prepare youth for competition.)
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Unfortunately for Atticus Finch, it’s obvious that today’s courtroom is rarely a place where one gets a square deal. There’s always favoritism, graft, corruption, games being played, politics, etc. When one reads through the Bible, there are several places where judges are commanded to judge fairly and impartially. Judgement Day is going to be a bear for many of them.


13 posted on 04/10/2025 6:54:01 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite its unfashionability)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Hahahahahahahahaha!


14 posted on 04/10/2025 6:57:39 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

It should be up to the client to pick a lawyer and law firm, provided that the lawyer and law firm do work to or above a standard a bar association should find acceptable.

Many of these law firms have done things I consider despicable, but lawyers are basically mercenaries with briefs and briefcases instead of guns.

As long as a lawyer will not reveal outside of a sealed courtroom secrets, he/she should be able to retain a security clearance.

Also, a lawyer should be able to represent a client before a governmental agency if the client wishes. The clients are usually highly profitable corporations with lots of legal representation options.


15 posted on 04/10/2025 7:08:55 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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There is a vast difference between going after someone like Rudy Giuliani for zealously representing his client (as the Democrats did), and simply refusing to spend taxpayer money with a law firm that acted as a fixer and money launderer to create and propagate the Russia hoax, which Perkins Coie did to Trump.


16 posted on 04/10/2025 7:17:13 PM PDT by csn vinnie
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
Bryan Sullivan = propaganda tool.

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domestic enemy

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17 posted on 04/10/2025 7:21:46 PM PDT by cuz1961
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It is for filing unjustified claims or maintaining lawsuits upon unjustified claims that lawyers and law firms should be punished.


18 posted on 04/10/2025 7:24:04 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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Dishonest lawyers and law firms should not be entrusted with government business.


19 posted on 04/10/2025 7:26:57 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
How many times have I heard that “the process is the punishment”? Many lawyers (those not working pro bono or on contingency) do not have any skin in the cases they bring. If the intent is for the client to unduly harm the other party, then that disassociation should be challenged. If the case is good, but not good enough to prevail, that's fine. If the case is just legal harassment and baseless, then of course the lawyer should be punished.
20 posted on 04/10/2025 7:47:03 PM PDT by asinclair (It's too bad there will never be a RICO indictment of the DNC.)
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