Philip Allen Lacovara is a former deputy solicitor general of the United States and counsel to the Watergate special prosecutor. He argued U.S. v. Nixon before the Supreme Court.
In William Shakespeare’s “Henry VI, Part 2,” Jack Cade is the vicious leader of a populist rebellion against the king, and Dick the Butcher is his chief lieutenant. It is the latter who utters the famous line setting the rebels’ priority once they gain political power: “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.” That line is widely misunderstood today as expressing frustration with legalese and lawyerly nitpicking.
Last month, Johnson led a delegation of his compatriots to show disdain for the judge and jury in the trial, in which Trump was subsequently convicted on 34 felony counts of fraud. He echoed Trump’s attacks not only on the verdict, but more importantly on the integrity of the process. He repeated the baseless canard that the whole prosecution in the name of the People of the State of New York was orchestrated from Washington as a form of election interference commissioned by President Joe Biden.
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