Andrew Weissmann EXPOSES Trump's JUDICIAL TAKEOVER

Trump's Executive Order 14246 explicitly targeted law firms, including Jenner & Block, claiming they could not receive federal contracts or security clearances due to 'partisan' pro bono work. This pressure led many firms, notably Paul Weiss, to collectively provide over a billion dollars in pro bono legal work to the Trump administration, effectively coercing legal services based on political alignment.

Trump's Executive Order 14246; four law firms fought the orders, while many caved, agreeing to give over a billion dollars worth of pro bono legal work to the Trump administration. Paul Weiss, a revered firm, caved.

Weissmann advocates for a legal framework, potentially through a federal statute (like 18 USC 101 for false statements), to criminalize material, intentional lies about elections. He argues that while lies are regulated in other contexts (e.g., corporate fraud, defamation), election-related lies, even those as significant as claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 election, are not. He cites examples from England (disqualification for material lies about opponents) and Brazil (former President Bolsonaro barred for election lies) as precedents.

Comparison to criminal prosecution for Enron leaders, Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, and civil defamation lawsuits against Rudy Giuliani and E. Jean Carroll. Examples of laws in England and Brazil where politicians can be disqualified or barred for election lies.

The Broadview case in Chicago revealed severe misconduct by a Trump-appointed US attorney, Andrew Bros, in presenting a case against ICE protesters to a grand jury. The judge found four major issues: the prosecutor vouched for evidence, engaged in off-record substantive communications with grand jurors, removed three grand jurors who disagreed with the government's direction, and initially submitted a partial transcript of the proceedings, omitting these issues. This led to the dismissal of all charges and an admonishment of the US attorney.

Judge's remarks in the Broadview case transcript, detailing four issues: prosecutor vouching for evidence, substantive off-record communications with grand jurors, removal of dissenting grand jurors, and submission of partial transcripts.

Weissmann asserts that judicial nominees who refuse to acknowledge the factual outcome of the 2020 election, despite over 60 court cases rejecting fraud claims, are fundamentally unfit for lifetime appointments. Such behavior demonstrates a lack of independence from political influence and an unwillingness to be tethered to facts and law, thereby corrupting one of the last functioning checks and balances in the US government.

Judicial nominees consistently refusing to acknowledge the 2020 election results during Senate Judiciary Committee hearings. Over 60 court cases rejected challenges to the 2020 election.