“If Trump’s executive orders were not so grotesquely unconstitutional and
dangerous to a free society, I might be more sympathetic to a law firm
that doesn’t want to assume the risk of taking on the president…”
“But the undeniable purpose of Trump’s attacks against American law firms
is to destroy the independence of the legal profession in the United States
and weaken the rule of law.”
*** Gregory B. Craig: “Great attorneys take hard cases. I did”; Washington Post Weekly; 4/6/25***
[Note: Craig was a junior partner at the Williams and Connolly law firm. On March 30-31, 1981, the firm was asked to defend John W. Hinkley, Jr., who’d shot President Reagan
The firm held an executive committee meeting to discuss pro-con of representing Hinckley. After much discussion, legendary Edward Bennett Williams spoke. “I have seven kids…And I don’t doubt that one day one of them might do something stupid or crazy that would cause me to need a lawyer for him. I would not have much respect for our profession if I called up Arthur Liman at Paul Weiss and told him, ‘Arthur, I need your help,’ and he came back and told me: ‘I’m so sorry, Ed, I have consulted my partners, and we think representing your son might do damage to our bottom line…” Williams and Connolly represented Hinckley.
Note: Craig was special counsel to president Clinton; White House counsel for president Obama]
***!!!!!!! Re-read Craig’s second paragraph above: “But the UNDENIABLE purpose of Trump’s attacks
against American law firms is to DESTROY. THE INDEPENDENCE OF. THE LEGAL
PROFESSION. IN. THE. UNITED. STATES AND. WEAKEN. THE RULE. OF. LAW.”
********. “Wherever Law ends Tyranny begins.” [John Locke] ******
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