{"id":143415,"date":"2026-02-05T16:37:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T00:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/02\/05\/accountability-in-an-age-of-unaccountability\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T16:37:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T00:37:21","slug":"accountability-in-an-age-of-unaccountability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/02\/05\/accountability-in-an-age-of-unaccountability\/","title":{"rendered":"Accountability In An Age Of Unaccountability"},"content":{"rendered":"

A flurry of stories hit the legal world all at once last week, with the government responding to another ICE killing in Minnesota by\u2026 arresting journalists and dumping Epstein files<\/a>. And while the Epstein files don\u2019t represent the entire universe \u2014 or, perhaps, even the most relevant files about Epstein\u2019s dealings \u2014 they have set off downstream shockwaves in the legal industry. Meanwhile, another judge learns that we frown upon judges arbitrarily handcuffing lawyers<\/a>. Finally, it\u2019s time for the profession to come together behind helping our self-regulators hold Trump administration lawyers accountable<\/a>. The ethical breaches keep adding up and while there\u2019s never going to be the warranted criminal law reckoning, we can at least make sure our profession is protected by disbarring all these administration lawyers getting caught affirmatively lying to courts\u2026 and worse.<\/p>\n

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A flurry of stories hit the legal world all at once last week, with the government responding to another ICE killing in Minnesota by\u2026 arresting journalists and dumping Epstein files<\/a>. And while the Epstein files don\u2019t represent the entire universe \u2014 or, perhaps, even the most relevant files about Epstein\u2019s dealings \u2014 they have set off downstream shockwaves in the legal industry. Meanwhile, another judge learns that we frown upon judges arbitrarily handcuffing lawyers<\/a>. Finally, it\u2019s time for the profession to come together behind helping our self-regulators hold Trump administration lawyers accountable<\/a>. The ethical breaches keep adding up and while there\u2019s never going to be the warranted criminal law reckoning, we can at least make sure our profession is protected by disbarring all these administration lawyers getting caught affirmatively lying to courts\u2026 and worse.<\/p>\n

The post Accountability In An Age Of Unaccountability<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A flurry of stories hit the legal world all at once last week, with the government responding to another ICE killing in Minnesota by\u2026 arresting journalists and dumping Epstein files. And while the Epstein files don\u2019t represent the entire universe \u2014 or, perhaps, even the most relevant files about Epstein\u2019s dealings \u2014 they have set […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"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-143415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143415","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=143415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}