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  • More trouble for Queens Defenders legal aide group, as lawyer busted for smuggling THC to Rikers inmate

    06/13/2025 12:43:43 PM PDT · by CFW · 9 replies
    NYPost ^ | 6/13/25 | Gabrielle Fahmy
    There’s more trouble brewing for an embattled Queens public defender office, as a lawyer there was busted for passing drugs to an incarcerated client just days after group’s founder was charged with fraud. One of the staff lawyers at Queens Defenders was arrested for allegedly attempting to sneak more than 130 pages of paper laced with THC to an inmate during a scheduled attorney visit at Rikers Island. Bernardo Caceres was charged with promoting prison contraband, a felony punishable by up to seven years in prison in New York. During a visit to inmate Luis DeJesus Wednesday afternoon – who’s...
  • Mike Davis: Leonard Leo Sat On The Sidelines During All The Lawfare Against President Trump

    05/31/2025 12:05:40 PM PDT · by CFW · 11 replies
    RealClear Politics ^ | 5/30/25 | Tim Hains
    "Article III Project" founder Mike Davis and "War Room" host Steve Bannon comment on the role the Federalist Society and its chairman Leonard Leo played in the first Trump administration and how this term will be different.MIKE DAVIS: Yeah, when you have Leonard Leo taking over a billion dollars—I think it was like $1.6 billion—from a billionaire who gave him his fortune, Barre Seid, and then Leonard sat on the sidelines with all that money for three years of lawfare and didn’t support groups that were helping President Trump with the lawfare.He actually had guys out there like Ed Whelan,...
  • EXCLUSIVE: Biden Admin Quietly Installed Nearly 200 Attorneys As Ed Dept Pursued Radical Agenda

    05/28/2025 4:49:01 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 23 replies
    The Daily Caller ^ | 21 May, 2025 | Jaryn Crouson
    The Department of Education (ED) under the Biden administration used an obscure hiring gimmick to bring in nearly 200 attorneys while pushing radical policies that faced persistent legal opposition. The Biden administration used the Schedule A hiring process, which provides an expedited path by bypassing the usual competitive process and negating the requirement that appointments be made based on merit. ED hired 193 attorneys from Jan. 20, 2021 through April 30, 2024 mostly staffing the department’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR), according to documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by Protect the Public’s Trust (PPT) and shared...
  • Federal judge mulls sanctions for attorneys who used AI in court filing

    05/27/2025 1:30:26 PM PDT · by Angelino97 · 10 replies
    Alabama Reflector ^ | May 21, 2025 | Ralph Chapoco
    A federal judge said Wednesday she would consider sanctions on attorneys who filed a motion that used artificial intelligence and cited legal authorities that do not exist. U.S. District Court Judge Anna M. Manasco told attorneys representing the state in the lawsuit — claiming corrections officers failed to protect an inmate — that lawyers continue to use artificial intelligence even after other courts have imposed corrective measures throughout the country. “Generally, this has occurred in other cases where the courts have imposed sanctions and standing orders,” Manasco said during the hearing. “This incident is proof-positive that those sanctions were insufficient....
  • Alabama paid a law firm millions to defend its prisons. It used AI and turned in fake citations

    05/25/2025 3:17:00 PM PDT · by ransomnote · 15 replies
    theguardian.com ^ | May 24, 2025 | Nicholas Chrastil
    SNIPState officials have praised Butler Snow for its experience in defending prison cases – and specifically William Lunsford, head of the constitutional and civil rights litigation practice group at the firm. But now the firm is facing sanctions by the federal judge overseeing Johnson’s case after an attorney at the firm, working with Lunsford, cited cases generated by artificial intelligence – which turned out not to exist.It is one of a growing number of instances in which attorneys around the country have faced consequences for including false, AI-generated information in official legal filings. A database attempting to track the prevalence...
  • 5 Law Firms Make Deals With Trump, Avert WH Sanctions

    04/12/2025 9:03:29 AM PDT · by SoConPubbie · 15 replies
    NewsMax ^ | Friday, 11 April 2025 09:12 PM EDT
    President Donald Trump announced deals Friday with five law firms that will allow them to avoid the prospect of punishing executive orders and require them to together provide hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of free legal services for causes his administration says it supports.The resolutions reflect the Republican president's continued success in bending prominent law firms to his will as they seek to cut deals with his administration to avoid being targeted by White House sanctions like the ones confronting others in the legal community.The White House said that the firms of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Allen Overy Shearman...
  • Addressing Risks from Jenner & Block Executive Orders

    03/25/2025 8:25:41 PM PDT · by Morgana · 9 replies
    White House.gov ^ | March 25, 2025 | The White House
    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Background. My Administration is committed to addressing the significant risks associated with law firms, particularly so-called “Big Law” firms, that engage in conduct detrimental to critical American interests. Many firms take actions that threaten public safety and national security, limit constitutional freedoms, degrade the quality of American elections, or undermine bedrock American principles. Moreover, law firms regularly conduct this harmful activity through their powerful pro bono practices, earmarking hundreds of millions of their clients’...
  • Trump directs Bondi to probe attorneys who lob ‘frivolous, unreasonable’ litigation against his administration

    03/23/2025 2:39:00 AM PDT · by Libloather · 29 replies
    NY Post ^ | 3/22/25 | Ryan King
    President Trump directed US Attorney General Pam Bond to pursue penalties against law firms and lawyers that lodge “frivolous” litigation against the government. Trump pointed to civil procedure rules barring lawyers from lodging legal filings to “harass” or “cause unnecessary delay” and asked Bondi, 59, to recommend additional steps he could take to fight back. “Far too many attorneys and law firms have long ignored these requirements when litigating against the Federal Government or in pursuing baseless partisan attacks,” Trump said in a presidential memorandum the White House released Saturday. “I hereby direct the Attorney General to seek sanctions against...
  • Republicans call for Trump to cut off American Bar Association

    03/08/2025 6:57:33 PM PST · by SoConPubbie · 32 replies
    FoxNews ^ | March 8, 2025 12:38pm EST | Rachel Wolf
    Several Republican senators have taken issue with the American Bar Association (ABA) and are calling for President Donald Trump to take drastic action against the group. In a letter to ABA President William Bay, lawmakers said the group, which plays a key role in judicial nominations, had become "biased and ideologically captured." Now, those lawmakers want President Trump to "remove the ABA from the judicial nomination process entirely."Sen. Eric Schmitt, Sen. Ted Cruz, Sen. Marsha Blackburn, Sen. Josh Hawley, Sen. Bernie Moreno and Sen. Mike Lee are also calling on their fellow senators to "disregard the ABA’s recommendations."In the explosive...
  • Exclusive: Trump to Suspend Security Clearances of Employees at Law Firm at Center of Russia Hoax

    03/06/2025 1:49:02 PM PST · by DFG · 58 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 03/06/2025 | Nick Gilbertson
    President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order Thursday suspending security clearances held by employees of the law firm that hired Fusion GPS, which produced the infamous Steele Dossier in 2016, Breitbart News has learned. A White House document provided exclusively to Breitbart News by a White House official states that clearances held by those who work at Perkins Coie LLP “will be immediately suspended, pending a review of whether their access to sensitive information is consistent with the national interest.” “The Federal Government will halt all material and services, including sensitive compartmented information facility (SCIF) access provided...
  • Trump axes security clearances for law firm attorneys who aided special counsel Jack Smith: ‘I just want to savor this’

    02/25/2025 4:16:05 PM PST · by Libloather · 17 replies
    NY Post ^ | 2/25/25 | Steven Nelson
    WASHINGTON — President Trump on Tuesday revoked any security clearances held by Covington & Burling law firm employees who provided pro bono services to former special counsel Jack Smith, who prosecuted Trump in a pair of since-ended criminal cases. “This is a good one. Is everybody listening? Deranged Jack Smith — we’re going to call it the deranged Jack Smith signing or bill,” Trump said in the Oval Office. “The weaponization of our system by law firms, even pro bono work they’re doing just in order to clog up government, stop government, and nobody knows about it more than me,...
  • Trump Orders Justice Dept. To Fire All ‘Biden-Era’ U.S. Attorneys

    02/19/2025 5:43:06 PM PST · by E. Pluribus Unum · 9 replies
    The Conservative Brief ^ | February 19, 2025 | Jon Dougherty
    President Donald Trump continued his purge of officials he suspects could work against him and his agenda on Tuesday, issuing instructions to Attorney General Pam Bondi to fire all remaining U.S. attorneys who worked under former President Joe Biden. “Over the past four years, the Department of Justice has been politicized like never before. Therefore, I have instructed the termination of ALL remaining ‘Biden Era’ U.S. Attorneys,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. “We must ‘clean house’ IMMEDIATELY, and restore confidence. America’s Golden Age must have a fair Justice System – THAT BEGINS TODAY!” he added. Bondi, meanwhile, has...
  • Attorneys General in 14 States Threaten to Sue DOGE, Citing Privacy Concerns

    02/07/2025 12:07:27 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 92 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 02/07/2025 | Hannah Knudsen
    Attorneys general in over a dozen states are threatening to sue the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by Tesla CEO and X owner Elon Musk, citing privacy concerns. The 14 attorneys general include California Attorney General Rob Bonta, as well as those representing Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, New York, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, Rhode Island, and Vermont. They begin their joint statement pointing to the U.S. Department of the Treasury, writing that it has “given Elon Musk access to Americans’ personal private information, state bank account data, and other information that is some of our country’s most...
  • ‘Dark Money’ Group Threatens Future Trump Lawyers with Disbarment

    10/11/2024 12:52:44 AM PDT · by CFW · 60 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 10/11/24 | Joel B. Pollack
    Project 65, a “dark money” left-wing group that has targeted lawyers that represented former President Donald Trump in 2020, is now warning potential Trump attorneys that they could be disbarred for working for him. In an ad posted on Instagram, and apparently targeted at lawyers, Project 65 warns: “Don’t let partisan politics endanger your standing with the bar. The Porter Wright Partners face ethics complaints over Trump campaign post-election work. Don’t risk your law license by joining an effort to subvert democracy. We – and the public – are watching.” Porter Wright is a firm that represented Trump in Pennsylvania...
  • SHARE THIS Facebook Twitter HOUSING AND HOMELESSNESS LA County leaders vote to give renters free eviction attorneys, a first in SoCal

    07/23/2024 6:23:40 AM PDT · by AbolishCSEU · 29 replies
    laist.com ^ | 7/16/24 | Daniel Wagner
    Los Angeles County’s Board of Supervisors unanimously voted Tuesday in favor of creating a plan to provide free attorneys to low income renters facing eviction. The policy — which still needs a final vote before it is scheduled to take effect on Jan. 1, 2025 — would be the first of its kind in Southern California. It comes at a time when lapsed pandemic renter protections have caused a spike in eviction filings leading to thousands losing housing. “Housing is a fundamental human right,” said Sup. Holly Mitchell, who first introduced the idea for a “Right To Counsel” program last...
  • Andrew Weissmann Apoplectic at Immunity Decision – SCOTUS: The President IS The Executive Branch

    07/03/2024 6:31:09 AM PDT · by george76 · 19 replies
    Conservative Treehouse ^ | July 2, 2024 | Sundance
    The tip of the Lawfare spear consists of a small group of former DOJ attorneys and Main Justice leftists who helped AG Eric Holder create the DOJ National Security Division (DOJ-NSD) when it was formed on behalf of President Obama. Lawfare, writ large, are a tribe of leftists who strategically weaponize the justice systems within the DOJ. They are also the main guides, strategists and legal analysts who previously used Robert Mueller and currently use Jack Smith. The tribe is led by a trio of fellow travelers: Mary McCord, Norm Eisen and Andrew Weissmann. If you research the group, you...
  • Conservative Lawyers Reveal Retaliation They Faced Over Politics

    04/21/2024 11:23:15 AM PDT · by CFW · 8 replies
    Epoch Times ^ | 4/19/24 | Jacob Burg
    A California bar court judge ruled in late March that John Eastman should be disbarred for helping President Donald Trump challenge the outcome of the 2020 election. Before the California Supreme Court reviews the case, Mr. Eastman asked a judge to pause the order prohibiting him from practicing law, so he could fund his defense in the criminal case brought against President Trump and his attorneys in Georgia. Jeffrey Clark, who also tried to help President Trump, is facing a similar disbarment hearing in Washington. The focal point is a “proof of concept” letter he drafted for President Trump in...
  • Prosecutors slam Hunter Biden attorneys in federal court: 'You attack the facts'

    03/27/2024 6:19:32 PM PDT · by Libloather · 2 replies
    Fox News via MSN ^ | 3/27/24 | David Spunt, Brooke Singman, Jake Gibson
    Prosecutors went after Hunter Biden's attorneys during an hours-long hearing Wednesday on several motions to dismiss criminal tax evasion charges against the president's son.
  • (WA)Supreme Court: Bar exam will no longer be required to become attorney in Washington State

    03/17/2024 9:26:18 AM PDT · by llevrok · 103 replies
    Spokesman-Review (Spokane) ^ | 3/15/2024 | Emma Epperly
    The bar exam will no longer be required to become a lawyer in Washington, the state Supreme Court ruled in a pair of orders Friday. The court approved alternative ways to show competency and earn a law license after appointing a task force to examine the issue in 2020. The Bar Licensure Task Force found that the traditional exam “disproportionally and unnecessarily blocks” marginalized groups from becoming practicing attorneys and is “at best minimally effective” for ensuring competency, according to a news release from the Washington Administrative Office of the Courts. Washington is the second state to not require the...
  • Lawfare America! 1.33 Million Attorneys Compared to 1.08 Doctors in 2023

    01/21/2024 4:00:41 PM PST · by CFW · 23 replies
    America Outland ^ | 1/21/24 | Paul Engel
    If you want to seek a redress of some grievance, most people start with a lawsuit. This is partially responsible for the fact that in 2023 there are 1.33 million attorneys in America and only 1.08 million doctors. What happens when people figure out how to use these lawsuits not just for a redress of grievance but to attack others? Take, for example, the case of Acheson Hotels, LLC v. Laufer. In this case, Acheson Hotels claims that Deborah Laufer filed a lawsuit against them not because she was harmed by their hotel but because she is an activist using...