{"id":111997,"date":"2025-03-26T12:22:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T20:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/03\/26\/trumps-latest-con-is-designed-to-turn-the-public-against-lawyers\/"},"modified":"2025-03-26T12:22:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T20:22:29","slug":"trumps-latest-con-is-designed-to-turn-the-public-against-lawyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/03\/26\/trumps-latest-con-is-designed-to-turn-the-public-against-lawyers\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Latest \u2018Con\u2019 Is Designed To Turn The Public Against Lawyers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s a con to create the illusion that Trump is tough on lawyers when it really adds nothing to the law whatsoever.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Trump has apparently decided that lawyers will be his new punching bag and he will find ways to attack their credibility and turn the public against them whenever he can.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 Professor Steven Gillers<\/a> of NYU Law, in comments given to the American Lawyer<\/a>, on one of President Donald Trump\u2019s latest executive orders targeting the legal profession, titled \u201cPreventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court.\u201d Boutique law firms have started to speak out against Trump\u2019s revenge campaign<\/a>, but Biglaw firms continue to remain silent.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Trump\u2019s Latest \u2018Con\u2019 Is Designed To Turn The Public Against Lawyers<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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(Photo by David Becker\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s a con to create the illusion that Trump is tough on lawyers when it really adds nothing to the law whatsoever.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Trump has apparently decided that lawyers will be his new punching bag and he will find ways to attack their credibility and turn the public against them whenever he can.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 Professor Steven Gillers<\/a> of NYU Law, in comments given to the American Lawyer<\/a>, on one of President Donald Trump\u2019s latest executive orders targeting the legal profession, titled \u201cPreventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court.\u201d Boutique law firms have started to speak out against Trump\u2019s revenge campaign<\/a>, but Biglaw firms continue to remain silent.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"Staci
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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Photo by David Becker\/Getty Images) Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. It\u2019s a con to create the illusion that Trump is tough on lawyers when it really adds nothing to the law whatsoever. Trump has apparently decided that lawyers will be his new punching bag and he will find ways […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":111998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Staci-Zaretsky-8HoxWJ.jpeg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}