Law firms, universities and now civil society groups are in Trump's sights for punitive action - #revenge #academia #AcademicChatter #HigherEd #LawFirms #Legal #attorneys #AmericanCoup #coup #RepublicansDidThis #RepublicansOwnThis https://apnews.com/article/trump-tax-exempt-crew-environmental-groups-harvard-5e1e0ffacfa040ccdeaf4e43fb72b5fe

I will be cursing now …

Holy fucking hell

#DOJ bars its #attorneys from participating in #AmericanBarAssociation events

US Dpty AG [& fmr #trump #criminal defense atty] #ToddBlanche on Wednesday banned #Justice Dept attys from traveling to or speaking at #ABA events, in a memo seen by Reuters that accused the ABA of engaging in "activist causes" contrary to the government's interest.

#law
https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-justice-dept-bars-its-attorneys-participating-american-bar-association-events-2025-04-09/

His threats have no bounds so we are all at risk. #Trump broadened campaign of retaliation against lawyers he dislikes w a memorandum that threatens to use govt power 2 punish any #law firms that in his view unfairly #challenge his administration. memorandum directs #DOJ #DHS to “seek sanctions against #attorneys & law firms who engage in frivolous, unreasonable and vexatious litigation against the United States” or in matters that come before federal agencies. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/us/politics/trump-memo-lawyers.html #democracy

Interim US Attorney Ed Martin announced dismissal this afternoon of roughly 80 #FBI #federalprosecutors #DOJ #attorneys who worked on #CapitolRiots cases #jan6th in #DC office over past 4 yrs two...cuts amount to about 8% of office’s prosecutors. Combined with a recently announced freeze on #hiring #promotions, the openings will have impacts across office’s #civil #appellate #SuperiorCourt and #violentcrime divisions, where some prosecutors had been previously reassigned. https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/01/31/jan6-prosecutors-fired-dc-martin/