When Lawyers Defending Their Clients Become the Accused

by Elizabeth Eastman • January 10, 2024 at 5:00 am

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.

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. Pictured: President Donald Trump sits in a courtroom, flanked by his attorneys, Christopher Kise (L) and Alina Habba at New York State Supreme Court on November 6, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Curtis Means/Pool/Getty Images)

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.

What, however, are the implications when the lawyers who provide that defense are threatened with disbarment proceedings, crushing legal costs to defend their licenses, exclusion from participation in the broader legal and academic communities, and having their reputations smeared, all because they represented clients who were deemed unpopular or took on cases fraught with controversy?

Lawyers throughout America are being subjected to these very ordeals due to their participation in cases related to the 2020 presidential election. One of the principal groups pursuing this strategy operates under the name "The 65 Project."

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Biden Promised Gaza Aid Wouldn't Go To Hamas. He Lied.

by Daniel Greenfield • January 10, 2024 at 4:00 am

If anyone is watching, armed Hamas fighters have hijacked aid convoys in videos taken both by the IDF and civilians in Gaza. In video after video, Hamas terrorists seize aid and assault civilians who, in some cases, respond by hurling abuse and stones. Pictured: Hamas terrorists on a pickup truck "escort" trucks carrying humanitarian aid that they intend to loot, near the Rafah border crossing with Egypt in the southern Gaza Strip on December 10, 2023. (Photo by Mohammed Abed/AFP via Getty Images)

A week after the horrors of October 7, when the Biden administration first convinced Israel to open up the siege of Gaza and allow in international aid, it promised Hamas would not get it.

"If Hamas in any way blocks humanitarian assistance from reaching civilians, including by seizing the aid itself, we'll be the first to condemn it. And we will work to prevent it from happening again," Secretary of State Antony Blinken pledged.

The problem with such a promise was obvious once Deputy National Security Advisor Jon Finer struggled to explain to CNN how it would stop Hamas from taking the aid.

"How is the United States going to ensure that none of that ends up in the hands of Hamas?" a CNN anchor asked.

Finer claimed that "this was a primary focus of the president's diplomacy" and that "it involves securing an understanding among Hamas fighters who control the checkpoints on the other side of the border".

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