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DOJ Takes On Leftist Attempt To Punish Any Lawyer Who Disagrees With Democrats

A new DOJ lawsuit represents a vital step toward ending an un-American war on disfavored attorneys and defenders of disfavored causes — a war that would do irrevocable damage to our justice system and republic.

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The Department of Justice last week announced the creation of a $1.776 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” to repay victims of left-wing lawfare. While it remains to be seen whether this funding could go to MAGA lawyers who are victims of frivolous left-wing ethics complaints brought before Democrat-dominated bar disciplinary authorities, other remedies are already underway.

With a new landmark lawsuit, the Trump Justice Department is finally fighting this “barfare” —leftist efforts to render the right defenseless by crushing or chilling conservative attorneys via stress-inducing probes, costly trials, and crippling penalties that include disbarment. On May 13, the DOJ filed a complaint against the bar disciplinary authorities of Washington, D.C., in defense of former Trump I DOJ official Jeffrey Clark, the Constitution, and the rule of law itself.

Those authorities investigated, tried, and convicted the accomplished litigator for a novel “thoughtcrime”: preparing a document proposing a legal course of action based on a reading of evidence that his DOJ superiors disagreed with.

As detailed in previous reporting at RealClearInvestigations, Clark, then-serving as Acting Assistant Attorney General for the DOJ’s Civil Division, believed that potentially election-altering irregularities occurred during the 2020 presidential election, including in Georgia. So after the contest he drafted a letter on the department’s behalf to Peach State leaders to address such matters. He designated the letter as “Pre-Decisional & Deliberative/Attorney-Client or Legal Work Product” and “FOR INTERNAL … USE ONLY,” and dubbed it a “Proof of Concept” document. The letter indicated that the DOJ had identified potential election-swinging issues........

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