In New Orders, Trump Targets Foes of His Stolen-Election Claims
Walter Olson President Donald Trump’s series of executive orders proclaiming various lawyers and law firms guilty of supposed offenses and subjecting them to severe unilateral penalties—“orders of attainder,” as Prof. Paul Horwitz evocatively calls them—have largely focused on lawyers who’ve engaged in campaign, electoral, or prosecutorial work against Trump personally. Now two new penalty orders broaden the range of targets to those who have publicly undercut Trump’s regular theme that the 2020 election was rigged against him. His […]