Lawyers who defend unfashionable (i.e. conservatives and Trump Republicans) clients are putting their reputations and careers at risk, making it difficult for unfashionable clients to find quality legal representation. From Elizabeth Eastman from gatestoneinstitute.org:
- Ensuring the integrity of elections is… a fundamental requirement to support the legitimacy of the American democratic republic.
- We do not have to speculate about the motives of The 65 Project. The head of the group has admitted that their goal is “to deter right-wing talent from signing on to any future GOP efforts” to challenge elections, not only by bringing bar complaints but to “shame them and make them toxic in their communities and their firms.”
- The 65 Project’s straight-faced motto, incidentally, is, “Defending Democracy and the Rule of Law.” If only!
- We are witnessing a shift in the legal system from lawyers representing and defending clients to lawyers becoming the accused, and, as a form of pseudo-juridical destruction, being charged with unfounded claims.
One of the many great provisions in the American Constitution provides that everyone is entitled to a defense. The “right to counsel” is guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment and the “due process” clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments.
