
“[W]e all agree that any First Amendment defense raised by President Trump’s attorney would be legally frivolous.”
This questionable statement was asserted in a letter released earlier this month by 144 “constitutional law scholars” to shoot down a defense they expected former GOP President Donald J. Trump to raise during his impeachment hearing.
The “scholars” letter was a thinly veiled warning to Trump’s legal counsel that if they assert a First Amendment offense on behalf of Trump, they will be subject to court sanctions for violating ethical conduct rules for attorneys.
Latest Assault
It is the latest assault on Trump by left-leaning attorneys who use the law as a bludgeon to achieve political goals.
Last fall, a group of attorneys and law students engaged in a thuggish (and highly successful) effort to intimidate lawyers at big and small law firms to drop Trump as a client.
Former Judge James Troupis, who represented Trump in December in an election challenge in Wisconsin, said he took the case because no one else would. “We have to acknowledge the court system has been deeply intimidated by the left, just as the lawyers have been intimidated. That is a sad, sad state of affairs,” said Troupis.
At present, bar associations are challenging the law licenses of Trump attorneys, claiming they violated ethical conduct rules by representing Trump’s challenge to the 2020 Presidential election.