Democrats held a rare bicameral forum to examine the Trump administration’s actions targeting Department of Justice (DOJ) staff and major law firms as the party explores how to push back against the Trump presidency.

The forum featured a series of attorneys who were fired or resigned from the Justice Department or have pushed big law firms to respond to a series of executive orders from President Trump targeting firms.

“Donald Trump is taking unprecedented steps to bend our justice system to his will, and his administration is moving systematically and swiftly to dismantle the legal pillars that hold up our democracy,” said Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), who organized the panel alongside Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee.

“If Donald Trump and his personal criminal defense lawyers now running the Justice Department succeed, the consequences will be profound.”

It’s clear the forum was on the radar of the Trump administration. The Justice Department was prepared to send U.S. marshals to the home of one of the invitees, Liz Oyer, the former U.S. pardon attorney.

“To all those who gathered across America … asking what Congress is doing to try to stop these excesses and these violations of the Constitution, remember what happens on this day. On this day, I think we are making history at the right moment,” Senate Judiciary ranking member Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said.

Speaking to the panel from the Justice Department were Oyer, who was fired by the........

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