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Nonilex<p>“Last month, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PaulWeiss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaulWeiss</span></a> removed a web page that had highlighted its ‘leadership in a court-ordered effort to find parents deported by the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> administration &amp; to reunify families.’ Visitors to the page now get an error message, as do users looking for any mention of Paul Weiss's pro bono work on behalf of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a> people.”</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/tyranny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tyranny</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRights</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/business/trump-law-firms-skadden-paul-weiss.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare&amp;sgrp=p&amp;pvid=34A166BD-CC07-49F3-8F2B-BF0B1A9687EE" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/04/02/busines</span><span class="invisible">s/trump-law-firms-skadden-paul-weiss.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare&amp;sgrp=p&amp;pvid=34A166BD-CC07-49F3-8F2B-BF0B1A9687EE</span></a></p>
Democracy Matters :verified:<p>Capitulation's a bitch!</p><p>'Implore you': Grandkids of famed judge tell firm that caved to Trump to stop using name<br><a href="https://www.rawstory.com/trump-law-firms-2671663055/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">rawstory.com/trump-law-firms-2</span><span class="invisible">671663055/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PaulWeiss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaulWeiss</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Capitulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Capitulation</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TrumpLawFirm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpLawFirm</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a></p>
BronMason<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@GottaLaff" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>GottaLaff</span></a></span> </p><p>The lawyers bar association should let Hunter Biden alone! <br>He is obviously an UPGRADE, compared to the way the white shoe law firms are falling all over themselves to work for free for a convicted felonious extortionist like trump.<br><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/hunterBiden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hunterBiden</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/skadden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>skadden</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/paulweiss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>paulweiss</span></a></p>
Democracy Matters :verified:<p>Georgetown Law student group canceling recruiting event with Skadden, Arps.</p><p>This is how you do it!</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/RIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RIP</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SkaddenArps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SkaddenArps</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PaulWeiss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaulWeiss</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TrumpSychophants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpSychophants</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/DoNotObey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DoNotObey</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a></p>
Democracy Matters :verified:<p>DO NOT OBEY IN ADVANCE!!!</p><p>“It's almost like giving bullies your lunch money encourages them to shake you down tomorrow." </p><p>-- Noah Shachtman, Rolling Stone</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FightFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FightFascism</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TheTimeIsNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheTimeIsNow</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PaulWeiss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaulWeiss</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SkaddenArps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SkaddenArps</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a></p>
Democracy Matters :verified:<p>Paul, Weiss and Skadden, Arps prostituted themselves and ruined their firms—150 and 77 years old—for nothing. All they needed to do was wait a few days. </p><p>And they failed their clients, they failed the law, and they failed our country. Cowards. </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PaulWeiss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaulWeiss</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SkaddenArps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SkaddenArps</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a></p>
Democracy Matters :verified:<p>What does it mean to be a lawyer if the administration can make demands on how a firm runs its business?</p><p>Paul Weiss “is merely rearranging the proverbial deck chairs on the Titanic,” Michigan’s attorney general,<br>Dana Nessel, wrote on X. “With this administration, there will be no legitimate legal system and no need for actual lawyers.”</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/RIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RIP</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PaulWeiss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaulWeiss</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TrumpSychophants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpSychophants</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FirePaulWeiss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirePaulWeiss</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/QuitPaulWeiss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QuitPaulWeiss</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a></p>
Democracy Matters :verified:<p>Paul Weiss and Skadden, Arps prostituted themselves and ruined their firms—150 and 77 years old—for nothing. All they needed to do was wait a few days. </p><p>And they failed their clients, they failed the law, and they failed our country. Cowards. </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PaulWeiss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaulWeiss</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SkaddenArps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SkaddenArps</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Updates on <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/LawFirms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LawFirms</span></a> targeted by <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>:</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WilmerHale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WilmerHale</span></a> [employed Robert Mueller] — Judge Leon, a George W. Bush appointee, set a 4:30 PM hearing</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JennerBlock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JennerBlock</span></a> [employed Andrew Weissmann] — Judge Bates, another a George W. Bush appointee, set a 5:45PM hearing</p><p>Last Fri, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PerkinsCoie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PerkinsCoie</span></a> [worked for Hillary Clinton] got a TRO while the case moves forward.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PaulWeiss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaulWeiss</span></a>, cut a deal w/Trump last month, promising $40M in pro bono legal services &amp; to hire an outside consultant to review employment practices.</p>
KProfsBlog<p>A post contrasting Paul, Weiss’s capitulation with the principled resignation of a young Skadden associate when BigLaw chose Chamberlain over Churchill. The administration’s attacks on the legal profession will now only accelerate.</p><p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/LawFirms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LawFirms</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/ExecutiveOrders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ExecutiveOrders</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/RuleOfLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RuleOfLaw</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/PaulWeiss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaulWeiss</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/03/doing-it-wrong-paul-weiss-and-doing-it-right-rachel-cohen.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lawprofessors.typepad.com/cont</span><span class="invisible">ractsprof_blog/2025/03/doing-it-wrong-paul-weiss-and-doing-it-right-rachel-cohen.html</span></a></p>
Democracy Matters :verified:<p>Compliance begets more bullying. Thanks, Paul Weiss!</p><p>'This needs to stop now': Elon Musk and MAGA 'take aim' at another huge law firm<br><a href="https://www.rawstory.com/elon-musk-takes-on-skadden/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">rawstory.com/elon-musk-takes-o</span><span class="invisible">n-skadden/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PaulWeiss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaulWeiss</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SkaddenArps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SkaddenArps</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BullyMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BullyMusk</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BullyTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BullyTrump</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ResistFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ResistFascism</span></a></p>
petersuber<p>Kudos to the American Bar Association (<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ABA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ABA</span></a>, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bird.makeup/users/abaesq" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>abaesq</span></a></span>) for condemning Donald <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>'s efforts to intimidate and control lawyers and law firms. <br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/business/paul-weiss-trump-reaction.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/03/21/busines</span><span class="invisible">s/paul-weiss-trump-reaction.html</span></a></p><p>Kudos to the hundreds of associates at corporate law firms calling on their employers to do the same and disavow the obsequious example of <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/PaulWeiss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaulWeiss</span></a>.<br><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/18ojmZhk6XmYM_gQJhl1KAhDecdcerly9EvmxJu8A5rI/edit" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">docs.google.com/document/d/18o</span><span class="invisible">jmZhk6XmYM_gQJhl1KAhDecdcerly9EvmxJu8A5rI/edit</span></a></p><p>Kudos to Rachel Cohen for her conditional public resignation from her firm if it does not act. <br><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rachelxcohen_i-just-put-in-conditional-notice-at-skadden-activity-7308686339435044864-gmb9?rcm=ACoAACPEcqwBiNGFvpUWqN2ktHkTvmcrqG3_n5g" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">linkedin.com/posts/rachelxcohe</span><span class="invisible">n_i-just-put-in-conditional-notice-at-skadden-activity-7308686339435044864-gmb9?rcm=ACoAACPEcqwBiNGFvpUWqN2ktHkTvmcrqG3_n5g</span></a> </p><p>Kudos to <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/MarcElias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarcElias</span></a> for speaking out on behalf of his firm. <br><a href="https://elias.law/newsroom/press-releases/statement-from-elias-law-group-chair-marc-elias" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">elias.law/newsroom/press-relea</span><span class="invisible">ses/statement-from-elias-law-group-chair-marc-elias</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/USLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USLaw</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a></p>
Democracy Matters :verified:<p>What does it mean to be a lawyer if the administration can make demands on how a firm runs its business?</p><p>Paul Weiss “is merely rearranging the proverbial deck chairs on the Titanic,” Michigan’s attorney general, Dana Nessel, wrote on X. “With this administration, there will be no legitimate legal system and no need for actual lawyers.”</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/RIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RIP</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PaulWeiss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaulWeiss</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TrumpSychophants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpSychophants</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FirePaulWeiss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirePaulWeiss</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/QuitPaulWeiss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QuitPaulWeiss</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a></p>
Democracy Matters :verified:<p>NYT with the understatement...</p><p>Paul Weiss Deal With Trump Faces Backlash From Legal Profession<br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/business/paul-weiss-trump-reaction.html?unlocked_article_code=1.504.X9wr.W8vIEizvjMW4&amp;smid=url-share" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/03/21/busines</span><span class="invisible">s/paul-weiss-trump-reaction.html?unlocked_article_code=1.504.X9wr.W8vIEizvjMW4&amp;smid=url-share</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/RIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RIP</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PaulWeiss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaulWeiss</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TrumpSychophants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpSychophants</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FirePaulWeiss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirePaulWeiss</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/QuitPaulWeiss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QuitPaulWeiss</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a></p>
Preston MacDougall<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>heidilifeldman</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mas.to/@democracydocket" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>democracydocket</span></a></span> Do any lawyers or law firms receiving support from <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mas.to/@democracydocket" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>democracydocket</span></a></span> promise not to cave like <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/PaulWeiss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaulWeiss</span></a> ?</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Resist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Resist</span></a> and <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/DoNotComply" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DoNotComply</span></a> with <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/fascists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascists</span></a> in <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a>.</p>
AnarchoNinaAnalyzes<p>In news from the quivering bowels of Vichy America, a major liberal law firm has agreed to work for fascists and stop hiring so many women, brown people, or members of the LGBTQ community to placate an aggrieved, would-be dictator and keep raking in those sweet government contracts:</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trump-rescinds-executive-order-after-firm-vows-pro-bono-for-right-wing-causes/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">truthout.org/articles/trump-re</span><span class="invisible">scinds-executive-order-after-firm-vows-pro-bono-for-right-wing-causes/</span></a></p><p>Trump-Targeted Law Firm Caves, Vows $40M in Legal Support to Right-Wing Causes</p><p>"President Donald Trump withdrew an executive order targeting a major Democratic-leaning law firm after the firm agreed to provide $40 million in pro bono legal services in support of his administration’s far right initiatives.</p><p>“This is unbelievably shameful from Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton &amp; Garrison LLP,” Molly Coleman, executive director at People’s Parity Project, said on LinkedIn. “I’m embarrassed to have any association with this firm that failed to find the courage the moment requires.”</p><p>Recently, the White House has escalated attacks on law firms whose attorneys have been involved in legal efforts opposing Trump. Just last week, Trump signed an executive order attempting to revoke security clearances from Paul, Weiss attorneys, restrict the firm’s access to federal buildings, and terminate any of its government contracts. The order reportedly prompted at least one client to sever ties with the firm.</p><p>However, following a meeting between Trump and Brad Karp, the chair of Paul, Weiss, the administration abruptly rescinded the order. “We look forward to an engaged and constructive relationship with the President and his Administration,” Karp said in a statement."</p><p>So, let's make sure we all understand what's going on here. Trump is brazenly and almost certainly illegally, shaking down a powerful law firm that has literally worked on cases opposing him in the past, and is known from their commitment to diverse hiring practices, and instead of fighting back, or even just taking the loss of government money on the chin, they've decided to *check notes* concede that a former partner who worked on cases against Trump was engaged in "wrongdoing," work pro-bono for the fascist regime, and capitulate to the fascist "war on DEI" - an idea whose ever-expanding meaning appears to be "restore mandated white supremacy in America." </p><p>Are you kidding me? Does the larger liberal establishment in the United States have anything resembling a spine to share between them? More importantly, if Americans trapped inside the increasingly ominous, fascist nightmare that is Trump 2.0 can't count on a high profile law firm in the *business* of protecting civil rights and taking on the government, to even stand up for the firm's *own* rights, how can they have faith that anyone in position to defend their rights in a legal capacity, is going to step up to the plate for them? The answer of course, is that they can't. </p><p>Folks, you'll get no argument from me if you say that the greater evil in this story is a fascist president who would be king, using the authority of his office to gain revenge on law firms that helped charge him for real crimes, he absolutely committed. As the extorted settlement proves, this too is part of Trump's plot to take complete control of America as a dictator. This isn't legal, and as a federal judge's restraining order in a similar case involving the Trump-targeted firm Perkins Coie demonstrates, complete surrender was not the only option Paul Weiss and its chair Brad Karp had here. By that same measure you can't win if you don't fight, and when losing means capitulating to fascism, a law firm full of civil rights lawyers has a goddamn *responsibility* to resist.</p><p>“It is a sad day for the legal industry. Paul, Weiss, didn’t just bend a knee, it set a new standard for shameful capitulation. This is a stain on the firm, every one of its partners, and the entire legal profession,” Marc Elias, founder of Democracy Docket, said on Bluesky."</p><p>Friends, I've been talking about and writing about the rise of fascism for over a decade now. And I'm not bragging, because I wish I had been wrong about the signs I was reading around me, but I have largely been right when I insisted we were all heading for a moment like this. Furthermore, I have repeatedly warned that a liberal establishment (no, not you; your leaders, your media, your "liberal" capitalist employers) which would always have the option of simply collaborating with the fascist order, wasn't going to save us from fascist predation. There is no cavalry; the opposition party, the courts, and the lawyers aren't going to stop this. At the rate things are going, I have no idea how long I'll still be able to tell you that we are the cavalry, and the only way this nightmare ends is if we use our bodies en masse to shut down the fascist order and the profits that motivate the guys paying for all this; but it's the truth. If you can do it to Tesla, you can do it to any of them.</p><p><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/ExecutiveOrder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ExecutiveOrder</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/PaulWeiss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaulWeiss</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Capitulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Capitulation</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Collaborators" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Collaborators</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/VichyAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VichyAmerica</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/antifascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antifascism</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Law firm <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PaulWeiss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaulWeiss</span></a> defends deal with <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> as lawyers sound alarm</p><p>Powerful Wall Street law firm Paul,Weiss faced heavy criticism on Friday over an *agreement* it struck w/the White House to escape an <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ExecutiveOrder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ExecutiveOrder</span></a> imperiling its business, even as some lawyers said the firm faced few other options.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MafiaState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MafiaState</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/QuidProQuo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QuidProQuo</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/QuidProBono" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QuidProBono</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.reuters.com/legal/trumps-deal-with-law-firm-paul-weiss-sparks-alarm-among-lawyers-2025-03-21/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">reuters.com/legal/trumps-deal-</span><span class="invisible">with-law-firm-paul-weiss-sparks-alarm-among-lawyers-2025-03-21/</span></a></p>
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