Obeying in Advance: The Law Firms

Obeying in Advance: The Law Firms
In the spring of 2025, the President signed executive orders against five of the country’s most prominent law firms. One folded in six days. Eight more paid before anyone signed an order against them. Four fought, and every court to rule has sided with them. The firms that paid bought nothing they could not have won, and gave away the one thing that made them worth attacking. [Read More]

This Is Not Eleven Scandals. It Is One Purge.

This Is Not Eleven Scandals. It Is One Purge.
Seventeen inspectors general fired in one night. A CDC director fired for refusing to lie. FBI agents purged for old casework. Named political rivals indicted by a hand-picked prosecutor, then un-indicted by a judge. A Supreme Court ruling that just made most of it permanent. Same mechanism, run in parallel across the federal government since day four of this administration. [Read More]