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Trump Puts Fallen Law Firms to Work to Speed our Nation's Collapse [1]
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Date: 2025-04-16
Mr. Trump is bullying US law firms (reported in the NY Times) that lack the moral courage and foresight to oppose his illegitimate attempts to restrict their practice by removing their security clearances or barring them from federal courts. Rather than litigate this attack on their credentials, they have unwisely chosen what they perceive as a less costly and more expedient course of bargaining with Trump and offering pro bono services to the administration to postpone his wrath. This is on the order of $1 billion offered so far, and the price for them is still going up. They are now promised to be at his beck and call to aid the DOGE and his Department of “Justice” as they go about dismantling the US government. It is truly a deal with the devil as they will discover in time.
This mirrors the barbaric practice of ancient conquerors like Alexander the Great who would on occasion offer the men of a defeated city an opportunity to save their lives for a while longer by leading the attack on the next city to be taken. They would lead the charge most likely to be killed in the first waves of attack as they were chased forward by their conquerors.
I can’t help but wish the law firms vanquished by Trump would take a moment to reflect on history.
However, another bit of contrasting history might be useful to recall. That is the response of the cities of Europe in the middle ages, during the rise of the “lawless nobility”. Merchants and other inhabitants of cities came to be preyed upon, by noblemen of the countryside, as they journeyed from one town to another. They were subject to being robbed, kidnapped, and held for ransom by the lawless nobility, and they had little recourse to higher authority. That is, until they developed the practice of banding together where, at annual festivals, all citizens of a town would swear an oath to come to the aid of any one of their number abducted and free them. By banding together they gained some protection and relief from robbery and unlawful seizure by the powerful.
This presents a simple lesson in the concept that “united we stand, and divided we fall”. While all school children are familiar with this principle enshrined in the birth of our own nation, it seems to have evaded the many law firms that have already fallen one by one to Trump’s assault and become captive, ready to be sent forth to attack the next of his targets.
Its disappointing that the great and wise leaders of these firms would not consider joining together with others in mutual defense rather than succumb to threats and coercion from such an outlaw as Donald J. Trump, an insurrectionist, convicted felon, extortionist, and man of low repute. Now they are bound to do his will and mete out injustice to others in his behalf. How can they not be disgusted with themselves?
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