Companies’ in-house lawyers are also nervous. They want to make sure their outside counsel is willing to fight the government if necessary. One lawyer working in a company’s general counsel office told Business Insider that her company’s advisors at a law firm that made a deal with Trump said it was necessary to hold onto influence with regulators.
“It just feels very cynical,” said the in-house lawyer, who wants to redirect work to other firms. “I don’t feel comfortable, if you’re going to cave in front of the government, that you’re going to represent me in front of the government.”
Even if you’re used to getting fucked over, why roll over? Fight back!
And which prominent Harvard professor?
There was another DOJ lawyer who accidentally leaked legal plans on the public docket that basically said, “we ain’t got shit.”
Any real lawyer isn’t going to lie for the DOJ and there was a reason that Trump was using bottom of the barrel lawyers to lose over a half a billion in lawsuits and 37 felonies.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Fsnr9yNEh7c
Legal scholars are usually very knowledgeable about the law, but not always great lawyers in the courtroom (hence the judge basically rolling her eyes at the argument).
Adrian Vermeule is a right wing constitutional law professor/legal scholar. He will never show up in court, but he is definitely influencing their legal argument.
NYT actually just released an article today asking legal experts their opinion on what’s happening now. Of course Vermeule somehow managed to put the blame on the courts and not the administration.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/opinion/trump-constitution-rule-of-law.html
https://archive.is/zGrab
The impression of a constitutional crisis is misleading. That impression was initially created by overreaching district judges selected by plaintiffs, who obtained temporary victories and leveraged those victories in the media. If there is a crisis, it does not arise from the actions of the administration but instead from a slew of highly aggressive judicial decisions that have transgressed traditional legal limits on the relationship between the judiciary and the executive branch — limits the courts respected during the Biden administration. — Adrian Vermeule, professor, Harvard Law School
Hmm maybe that reasoning can have him end up like the other (formarly) respected academic law professor.
It’s a constitutional crisis when the executive branch reports US citizens.