Trump’s War On Mega-Mouthpieces

WSJ eviscerated Trump for eviscerating 2 firms that eviscerated him via lawfare & the Steele Dossier hoax. Editors say this “violates a bedrock principle of US law that even worst clients deserve representation.” But who’s not getting repped?

As the paper’s editorial board noted, “Mr. Trump’s first EO against Big Law hit Covington & Burling [by] suspending the security clearances of firm employes ‘who assisted former Special Counsel Jack Smith’ [and] takes steps to bar the firm from government contracts. That was mild compared to the hammer blow against Perkins Coie … That order strips security clearances, bars government contractors from retaining the firm & even bars its lawyers from government buildings” for its role in helping advance the allegedly false dossier ‘designed to steal an election.’” Concluded the editors, “We can’t recall a similar White House order from any President.”

While Trump’s wrath may fall on the unprecedented side, so did the involvement of these two admittedly “partisan” firms in law fare & the Russia hoax, which played a key role in the impeachment of you know who. The WSJ editors arguably get lost in the legal weeds when their criticism rests on the “bedrock principle” aka the “right to representation.” Though these white shoes firms will get scorched financially by no longer getting rich off government contracts, they’ll continue to rake in plenty of moula from their Democratic enablers, maybe more so than ever. Those Dems will also find many law firms in the Yellow Pages eager to represent THEM in political dirt shoveling. In Perkins’ case, it is also getting plenty of “representation” as seen by their lawsuit against the Administration calling the banishing EO an “illegal use of executive power." On Wednesday, a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order against the EO's provision banning access to gov't buildings but not its security clearance restrictions. Where the WSJ’s critique does land on firmer terra is its concluding remarks suggesting two wrongs can’t make a right & Trump’s EOs against the law firms “is one more step toward making the legal system wholly political ... and that's not good for the country."

Davd Soul