Lawyers who faced professional penalties for standing by President Donald Trump can’t help but view objections of law firms targeted by executive orders as hypocritical.
Those now positioning themselves as defenders of the legal system did nothing when Trump-allied attorneys were losing their law licenses and major firms were refusing to back the president, conservative supporters of Trump’s efforts say.
“Their silence in the face of the same conduct over the past 4 years against lawyers (including me) who represented President Trump is deafening,” John Eastman told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Following an order in February stripping security clearances from attorneys at Covington & Burling, the firm representing former special counsel Jack Smith, Trump fired off a series of orders limiting some of the nation’s top law firms’ access to government contracts and…
