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American Wonk
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Hanging in there.
Local government officials are getting lawyers to write memos authorizing fraud. It was a lawyer who rubber-stamped Bush's torture program. With enough lawyers, you can make *any* conduct "legal." The profession as a whole is not OK. Are law schools defective? Are they recruiting bad people? (3/3)
January 18, 2026 at 8:22 PM
Disbarred. The really disturbing thing is, I'm seeing this same kind of anti-Constitutional, laws-don't-matter, do-what-I-say mentality among local government attorneys. As an institution, the legal profession is failing, despite the heroic efforts of some amazing lawyers. (2/3)
January 18, 2026 at 8:22 PM
I'm not an attorney, but I have been stunned by the profession's embrace of "novel" anti-Constitutional legal "theories." Eastman et al developed the now-ignored coup attempt of Jan 2021, which was executed by attorneys and allies in the US House. They, Bondi, and the SCOTUS majority must be (1/3)
January 18, 2026 at 8:22 PM
It's not "insanity." It's a coup.
January 18, 2026 at 7:43 AM
Until people take an interest in their government, it will continue to oppress them.
January 18, 2026 at 7:22 AM
I'm so tired of them feeding us to these wolves. They are traitors. They could have ended this in months by cutting off funding. Six months of no pay, there's no ICE. But 7 Dems and an independent joined Repugs & here we are. Schumer and others are working for billionaires and foreign governments.
January 18, 2026 at 6:40 AM
We've probably got 3-6 SCOTUS members in the files. There is so much effort to keep women and POC out of office and away from power because the white men who run this country are criminals, and they are afraid women and POC will end the immunity they've granted each other.
January 18, 2026 at 5:53 AM
With all our identities under his control, he doesn't need to cancel elections. He can control outcomes.
January 17, 2026 at 11:38 PM
Exactly.
January 17, 2026 at 11:16 PM
He's achieved some key goals: terrorized millions, killed some, destroyed national security & international alliances, stolen Venezuela's oil, destroyed the federal workforce, stolen our identities, defunded science, education, and healthcare, deported many, made big $$ for himself, weaponized DOJ.
January 17, 2026 at 11:14 PM