What Will Happen to the Lawyers Who Aided and Abetted Donald Trump?
SlateEven before the 2020 election is decided, there has been an almost unnatural amount of attention dedicated to what comes next. What I am most curious about is whether law firms have any affirmative obligation to refuse to give cover to the lawyers who performed the dirty work of the Donald Trump legal dumpster fire. But what I am most curious about is whether law firms have any affirmative obligation to refuse to give cover to the lawyers who performed the dirty work of the Donald Trump legal dumpster fire. Take for instance Rod Rosenstein, whose role in the Trump administration’s unlawful 2018 family separation policy was revealed by a recent New York Times report. According to the letter, so that DOJ could better enforce the Voting Rights Act “and its important protections against racial discrimination in voting.” As ProPublica reported in 2018, Gore came from Jones Day to the Justice Department, “where he was an appellate specialist best known for defending a range of Republican state redistricting plans that were attacked as racial gerrymandering by opponents.” After the debacle of the citizenship question was rebuffed by the courts, Gore faced allegations of providing false testimony and concealing evidence as part of the lawsuits over the addition of the question.