It's Time For The Right To Return Fire
Authored by Tom Klingenstein via TomKlingenstein.com,
In this essay, Thomas Klingenstein argues that the Right has made a category error: treating lawfare as a series of discrete legal disputes when it is better understood as a system of political power. His answer isn't simply better defense, but counterpressure - a new public-interest law firm, led by Jeff Clark, meant to defend conservative lawyers and make lawfare more costly to practice.
The deeper question, however, is whether an adversarial legal order can remain genuinely adversarial when one side commands the institutions, money, and professional machinery of enforcement. Klingenstein's argument is that formal neutrality is not enough; power also depends on whether institutions exist that are willing and able to contest it.
Lawfare is the strategic use of legal proceedings to intimidate, distract, defame, or destroy an opponent. Over the past decade, the Left has built a powerful, well-funded network that is carrying out Lawfare against our advocate class. The Left raised at least $183 million last year.
(Jemie Hecker/Shutterstock)To examine lawfare, we must consider the current context, which is this: we are at war, a cold ...
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