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Trump's war on Big Law chokes resistance

Molly Redden - ProPublica
Former President Joe Biden speaks at the National Bar Association gala in Chicago on July 31, 2025, warning that the nation faces “dark days” under Donald Trump’s leadership. Biden urged Black judges and lawyers to defend democracy, civil rights and judicial independence. (Scott Olson / Getty Images)

Biden warns of “dark days” ahead

CK Smith
Joe Biden, Barack Obama and Kamala Harris (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Democrats: Lawyering themselves to death

Matthew Wollin
Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell and John Eastman (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump is lethal to MAGA's legal careers

Heather Digby Parton
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Donald Trump | The US Capitol Riot on January 6, 2021 (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

A crisis of lawyering: DOJ must act now

Austin Sarat, Dennis Aftergut
TV equipment and reporters wait outside the U.S. Supreme Court on Capitol Hill on January 07, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

COVID hits SCOTUS during vax arguments

Brett Bachman
Sidney Powell, attorney for President Donald Trump, at a news conference at the Republican National Committee on lawsuits regarding the outcome of the 2020 presidential election on Thursday, November 19, 2020. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Bob Brigham
Attorney Sidney Powell speaks during a news conference about lawsuits contesting the results of the presidential election at the Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Thursday Nov. 19, 2020. (Sarah Silbiger for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Judge sanctions Trump's "Kraken" lawyers

Brad Reed - Raw Story
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An Amazon-sponsored billboard urging employees to return their unionization ballots is seen on March 28, 2021, in Bessemer, Alabama. (Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images)

Union avoidance: A secret industry

Jon Skolnik
Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller testifies before the House Intelligence Committee about his report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election in the Rayburn House Office Building July 24, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Getty/Chip Somodevilla)

The Mueller hearing and the end of facts

Lee McIntyre - The Conversation
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Training lawyers in big data

Anne Tucker, Charlotte Alexander - The Conversation
Michael Cohen (AP/Andrew Harnik)

Lawyers keeping secrets locked up

Elizabeth C. Tippett - The Conversation
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Navigating court without a lawyer

Lauren Sudeall Lucas, Darcy Meals - The Conversation
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Real masters of the universe

Sean McElwee, Roberta Barnett
FILE - The Supreme Court in this Feb. 17, 2016 file photo. (AP)

This is how we fight back

Daniel Denvir
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My fancy law firm hell

Eliza Kennedy
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Bob Odenkirk as Saul Goodman in "Breaking Bad" (AMC)

The lawyer of the future?

Ted Hamilton
Charles Darwin (AP)

The law according to Darwin

Douglas O. Linder, Nancy Levit
Defendant Steven Torres (CBS News)

Gay-bashers get comeuppance?

Josh Eidelson
George Zimmerman defense attorneys Don West (left) and Mark O'Mara (Reuters)

Worst courtroom jokes ever

Geoffrey Sant
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Clarence Thomas, Antonin Scalia (AP/Randy Snyder/Reuters/Brendan McDermid)

Marin Cogan
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James Clapper (Jeff Malet, maletphoto.com)

He's going to get away with it

Paul Campos
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Katie McDonough
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