President Trump broadened his campaign of retaliation against lawyers he dislikes with a new memorandum that threatens to use government power to punish any law firms that, in his view, unfairly challenge his administration.
The memorandum directs the heads of the Justice and Homeland Security Departments to “seek sanctions against attorneys and law firms who engage in frivolous, unreasonable and vexatious litigation against the United States” or in matters that come before federal agencies.
Mr. Trump issued the order late Friday night, after a tumultuous week for the American legal community in which one of the country’s premier firms, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, struck a deal with the White House to spare the company from a punitive decree issued by Mr. Trump the previous week.
The bigger problem is he isn’t the one actually coming up withany of this shit. He’s just the one with the sharpie. Trump goes away tomorrow and this will continue.
Mm, but Trump is the cult leader. No one actually likes the rest of them and some would feel more capable about pushing back against Vance. Anyway, Trump, Musk, and Vance are all problems.
Yup. Peter Theil and Stephen Miller in particular seem hell bent on pushing this shit.