Misrule of Law

President Trump is making the rule of law great again.

The Resistance to President Trump illustrates many things—the Uniparty establishment vs. the grassroots, special interests v. MAGA, ideology vs. common sense, etc.—but especially the potency of lawfare, which I described in an article for Chronicles as “weaponizing the legal system (civil and criminal) against one’s political opponents. Unlike actual warfare, which is openly hellish, lawfare is typically—and falsely—conducted in the name of ‘justice,’ but hellishly undermines both the truth and the rule of law. Even if the charges fail, the victim often faces financial and reputational ruin. The Kafkaesque process is the punishment.”

That article, entitled “Slouching Towards the Gulag,” was written before the 2024 election, when all the baseless legal proceedings against Donald Trump were operating in full gear. The article is posted on my blog, Misrule of Law. I tried to explain how our legal institutions—the judiciary, the legal academy, the legal profession, the organized bar, and even the concept of equal justice under law–had deteriorated to the point that bogus litigation has become an accepted tactic in political campaigns.

Many Americans are familiar with the names Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, AOC, and others in Congress. They are politicians, and can be defeated (like Biden/Harris were in November 2024) when the voters are allowed to cast ballots in free and fair elections. Lawfare is dangerous because it is conducted by a cadre of activist lawyers and their accomplices on the bench, out of public sight and without democratic accountability. A handful of activist lawyers wield as much (or greater) power than the leadership of the Democratic party.

For example:

Marc Elias quarterbacked the lawsuits that caused the 2020 election to be rigged with unsupervised mail-in ballots without legislative approval. He also led the legal opposition to voter ID laws. Norm Eisen is a left-wing lawyer and Obama crony who bragged on PBS’s Frontline that lawfare is the tip of the Left’s spear. Eisen was co-counsel for the House Judiciary Committee during the first impeachment of President Trump. Abbe Lowell is a high-powered D.C. lawyer who represented drug addict and tax cheat Hunter Biden and is currently representing Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook, whom President Trump fired for engaging in multiple mortgage fraud. In a puff-piece profile, the anti-Trump Wall Street Journal described  Lowell as “The Go-To Lawyer for Trump’s Targets.”

Somehow liberals always find a way to provide expensive legal representation for any pet cause or individual, including illegal alien MS-13 gang members such as Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who boasts a legal “Dream Team” rivaling O.J. Simpson’s defense lawyers. The Left is trying hard to canonize “Maryland Man” Abrego Garcia as a saint comparable to George Floyd. Of course, they are both thugs and career criminals. Go figure. Lawyers aren’t cheap. Where does the endless source of funding come from? Big Tech moguls, for one. As I wrote in the Chronicles article, “The multi-state, pandemic-enabled legal skullduggery engineered by Elias’s platoon of activist lawyers (and $400 million in ‘Zuck Bucks’ provided by Facebook mogul Mark Zuckerberg) allowed the Democrats to rig the 2020 election in favor of a feeble, unimpressive candidate who campaigned from his basement.”

And what is Abrego Garcia‘s Dream Team of high-priced lawyers up to? As reported in the Tennessee Star, they are asking a federal judge to issue a gag order prohibiting AG Pam Bondi and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem from commenting about the gang-banging human trafficker who so far has evaded the deportation order he is subject to. An illegal alien is trying to silence President Trump’s cabinet officers from talking about the miscarriage of justice being perpetrated by activist lawyers and their black-robed co-conspirators. Outrageous!

President Trump is restoring equal justice under law (or is trying to), and is getting accused of political retaliation for doing so, simply because some of criminals being charged happen to be Trump-hating liberals—as if suffering from TDS is a legal defense!

Examples:

The Wisconsin judge who helped an illegal alien escape capture by ICE agents by sneaking him out the back door of her courtroom was charged with obstruction of justice—a felony. The judge, Hannah Dugan, “filed a motion to dismiss the charges, arguing that she was acting in her official capacity as a judge and is therefore immune from prosecution,” which was denied. In other words, a leftist activist in black robes argued in federal court that she was above the law! Fortunately, the motion was denied. This hack judge may face prison time for her crime.

In the deep blue enclave of Washington, D.C., a grand jury declined to indict Sean Charles Dunn, who was videotaped assaulting a federal agent by hurling a Subway sandwich at him in a TDS-induced rage at President Trump’s federal takeover of law enforcement in the crime-ridden nation’s capital. Dunn was employed by the DOJ, but was promptly fired by Attorney General Pam Bondi. Sanctuary cities such as D.C. are like the Deep South during the Jim Crow era. Lynching went unpunished because juries refused to convict the perpetrators despite overwhelming evidence of guilt. Such jurisdictions are devoid of the rule of law. The guilty go free, and, in places like New York City and D.C., the innocent can be persecuted.

As I pointed out in my Chronicles article:

In these blue strongholds, prosecutors such as Manhattan’s Alvin Bragg and New York Attorney General Letitia James were elected based on their explicit (and unethical) campaign promises to “get” Donald Trump. With an overwhelmingly leftist electorate (D.C. voters favored Biden over Trump by a margin of 92 percent to five percent), and correspondingly leftist judges and prosecutors (such as Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis), blue cities are an inhospitable venue for conservatives who are sued or charged with crimes. The voters also serve as jurors, after all. This is why most of the lawfare against Republicans is conducted in a handful of blue jurisdictions resembling banana republics—behind enemy lines.

In many jurisdictions, the legal climate for conservatives is as hostile as the Jim Crow south was for blacks or civil rights workers.

Meanwhile, following three criminal referrals to the DOJ by Bill Pulte, head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, alleging that the incompetent, Biden-appointed Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook had committed mortgage fraud by submitting false information on mortgage applications for her various homes, President Trump fired her for cause. She immediately filed a lawsuit (represented by Eisen and Lowell) in federal court in D.C. challenging the termination. While it is likely the left-leaning Biden-appointed district judge will rule in favor of Cook, the case will serve as a vehicle for the U.S. Supreme Court to decide the constitutionality of Congress’s determination that the Federal Reserve—an executive branch agency—is “independent” of the President’s authority under Article II.

The Left’s lawfare campaign against President Trump is running out of steam. The Russian collusion hoax is unraveling as the FBI and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard have discovered “burn bags” full of incriminating documents left behind by the Biden swamp dwellers that were intended for destruction–but were ineptly left unburned.  They are a treasure trove of evidence against the Deep State.

New York Attorney General Letitia James’ much-heralded civil fraud witch hunt against President Trump (in New York City courts) went down in flames, to her embarrassment and humiliation. Despite her unethical behavior in conducting an avowedly political vendetta against a political adversary, the bar associations in New York have failed to take any action against her, in contrast to the disbarment proceeding launched against Trump’s lawyers (John Eastman and Jeff Clark) in California and D.C. In blue states, the organized bar—like the bench—has been captured by leftist tyrants.

President Trump handles setbacks in stride. In a divided ruling, a federal appeals court held that President Trump exceeded his emergency powers to impose tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. If upheld, the ruling would cast doubt on the reciprocal tariff rates set by President Trump in April. Politico reports that “The decision, however, will not take effect until Oct. 14, giving the Trump administration time to appeal the decision to the Supreme Court.”

In another setback, another Biden-appointed district judge in the kangaroo court venue of D.C., Amir Ali, ruled that President Trump erred when he blocked the Deep State’s piggy bank, the USAID, from disbursing billions of dollars in foreign aid grants to various nongovernmental organizations. President Trump is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to  stay the decision. The Federalist reports that “The Trump administration has requested that the justices issue a verdict on its emergency application by Sept. 2.”   

President Trump is working hard to make the rule of law great again.