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Posted on 07/31/2025 11:24:38 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
When the Texas Civil Rights Project needed lawyers to help dozens of people arrested during U.S. President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, legal director Dustin Rynders turned to a familiar strategy. He contacted major law firms that for decades had provided free legal services to nonprofits like his.
On that April day in Houston, he called his usual contacts, many at firms that had previously handled challenges to Trump’s immigration policies. Before Trump’s return to the White House, they typically offered swift “pro bono,” or free, legal help – a standard public service provided by elite U.S. firms.
This time, they all declined. “We are just handling the cases ourselves at this point,” Rynders said.
In March and April, Trump issued a series of executive orders targeting law firms he considers adversaries, the first such attacks by a U.S. president against the legal profession. Some of the orders lashed out at firms for donating their time to cases involving immigration, transgender rights and the January 6 attack by Trump supporters on the U.S. Capitol, claiming this legal work undermined U.S. interests.
Months later, the aftershocks threaten lasting damage to America’s tradition of mobilizing free lawyers to challenge government actions on behalf of the vulnerable.
Dustin Rynders, the Legal Director for the Texas Civil Rights Project, faces a shrinking pool of pro bono support as law firms retreat under pressure from Trump’s executive orders. REUTERS/Callaghan O'Hare
Dozens of major law firms, wary of political retaliation, have scaled back pro bono work, diversity initiatives and litigation that could place them in conflict with the Trump administration, a Reuters investigation found. Many firms are making a strategic calculation: withdraw from pro bono work frowned on by Trump, or risk becoming the next target.
Reuters interviewed more than 60 lawyers, reviewed 50 law firm websites,...
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Of course nothing about the IRS, DOJ, etc going after school board moms or Tea Party groups.
Yet, those "free" legal services lawyers were able to attack the Presidency and the DOJ for DECADES. Was the government just supposed to let that one-sided attack continue forever? This is typical lefty MSM agitprop. They get their panties in a wad when there is the least bit of push-back against the progressive juggernaut and their agenda.
Besides, you know they were not truly donating their time pro bono; they were no doubt getting compensated by leftists like Soros and leftist foundations to further the color revolution.
And what does Reuters and Mike Spector, Brad Heath, Kristina Cooke, Joseph Tanfani, and David Thomas care about legal defenses for the vulnerable other than perceived political opportunity?
How Trump’s crackdown on law firms is undermining legal defenses for the vulnerable
Trump is full of “firsts”…. Thats what I voted for.
Reuters .. again. Trump hating maggots the lot of them.
Buried the lead, i.e. the Federal government hires these law firms, so pro bono means taxpayers are footing the bill to thwart the will of the majority. To be truly pro bono, these law firms should not be on the Federal payroll. Trump is the first to act on this conflict, stop funding Democrat causes.
They don’t count as “vulnerable”. According to the Obama and Biden DOJ/FBI, those are criminal groups.
If “pro bono” means “free” (it doesn’t) so does “pro malo”. Time to pay the piper, shysters.
There are 1.3 million lawyers listed in the United States. Of that total some fiver percent are honest. 65,000 lawyers, if you can find them.
Bad lawyers who break the law, can do good things from time to time. That does not mean they should not be punished. If I rob banks and also give a hundred to the guy panhandling outside my office, I should not be immune from convictions.
‘the vulnerable’
Oh the heartstrings. Panda bears and candles at midnight.
[Yet, those “free” legal services lawyers were able to attack the Presidency and the DOJ for DECADES. Was the government just supposed to let that one-sided attack continue forever? This is typical lefty MSM agitprop. They get their panties in a wad when there is the least bit of push-back against the progressive juggernaut and their agenda.
Besides, you know they were not truly donating their time pro bono; they were no doubt getting compensated by leftists like Soros and leftist foundations to further the color revolution.]
Oh BS - it is NOT the first attack against the legal profession.
Reuters, of course, completely ignoring the last 4 years or Obama’s entire term.
They forgot about those lawyers who were threatened with disbarment for defending Trump and his associates during the Dem lawfare against him.
Perfect for sooooo many of the creeps out there.
With appropriate attribution, I will be using iamgalt's excellent phraseology.
There were about 100 great attorneys that assisted President Trump in the 2020 Voter Fraud. The Hussein/Biden Regime and their minions in many States went after them with the full force of the government.
As Freerepublic contributor iamgalt stated, the Left is full of Trump hating maggots.
“…the first such attacks by a U.S. president against the legal profession.”
But only a counter punch to the attacks on Trumps Lawyers by the legal profession. Learn to roll with them boys…
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