I wrote this about news organizations that were settling with Trump, but it's equally true of law firms that are settling with him. Maybe even *more* true, since the spectacle of *lawyers* surrendering to Trump is especially dispiriting. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/o... - ThreadSky

jameeljaffer.bsky.social • 3 days ago

I wrote this about news organizations that were settling with Trump, but it's equally true of law firms that are settling with him. Maybe even *more* true, since the spectacle of *lawyers* surrendering to Trump is especially dispiriting. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/opinion/trump-media-lawsuit-freedom.html

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myrrdz.bsky.social•3 days ago

Showing their true colors. Good riddance.

jeaniedoc.bsky.social•3 days ago

I can not stand how they just read every word he says, it sickens me!

rifka.bsky.social•3 days ago

Then this is a good time to start providing alt text like disabled people are allowed to know wtf you wrote and people who think they’re human can help spread it.

Or 1999 is also good!

outpost36.bsky.social•3 days ago

edwardericsonjr.bsky.social•3 days ago

Yep. We know what's going to happen. We do it anyway.

gingergem.bsky.social•3 days ago

Is that what happened to Joy Reid? She eviscerated trump and within 2 days we hear she is out. No left-wing media just rich people media. How many times a day do they show us we the people in protest? Who is interviewing us telling our stories? Like how many TSA guys took retirement? Crash, enough.

tbakerbroadmoor.bsky.social•3 days ago

Collective action failure

https://on.ft.com/4kXFayY The Capital One shakedown

tdcheetah.bsky.social•3 days ago

@jameeljaffer.bsky.social thanks for posting a link to the article.

Please consider posting alt-text for images w/text - makes your words more accessible and also visible in Bluesky search. Thanks!

tdcheetah.bsky.social•3 days ago

@alttext.bsky.social

shorepatrol.bsky.social•3 days ago

Bunch of fucking pussies.

Call Paul the biggest law loser ever.

tkgriffith.bsky.social•3 days ago

Literally the richest law firms out there

harrybjackson.bsky.social•3 days ago

Eating attention from Roberts' should be historic rebuke of attacks on the Judiciary, already dissolving anyway.

Gonna scare some judges. & Harder today for a GC at 123 Media (or any industry) to advise fighting whatever comes in next.

Not a way I would have thought the system could fail. Yikes.

itzmekatherine.bsky.social•3 days ago

He’s spent his lifetime battling, and most likely thinks we won many of the cases because ‘they caved’. But the truth is that most people know when to walk and not give him the battle he craves. He always finds another victim to screw over.
He’s a sick person and has been his whole life.

infortheride.bsky.social•3 days ago

What else did we think they were going to do? In retrospect, haven’t these firms always been in surrender mode? Surrender #1 from the entire criminal Bar that never challenged that huge loophole found in the 13th A that allowed legally sanctioned slavery to operate here. The 🤡trials, all of it.

williamfergie.bsky.social•3 days ago

Write a (respectful) letter to Mr.. Karp to tell him what a huge mistake his firm has made: Brad Karp, Esq., / Paul, Weiss / 1285 6th Ave. / New York, NY 10019-6065

infinitelyloopy.bsky.social•3 days ago

I wonder if this could go one of two ways (much like Columbia). Will it serve as an accelerant for capitulation or will it (hopefully) be a rallying moment for resistance?

penelopepussycats.bsky.social•2 days ago

CBS SO FAR HAS THE MOST INTEGRITY OLD WALTER WOULD BE PROUD OF THEM RIGHT ABOUT NOW.

artistdo.bsky.social•3 days ago

There is an abject failure of imagination here. Those with privilege, power, and agency cannot imagine how bad things actually are, or how bad they will get. Talk to people outside of your economic/social/class/career bubble. They know.

vlherrou.bsky.social•3 days ago

Exactly. Lawyers’ raison d’etre is to fight. Not capitulate.

cabbageridge.bsky.social•3 days ago

I do wish I was a historian. My chapter on this era would be brutal to each and every one of these people. I want my grandchildren to know how lawyers who make their jobs in the courts didn’t have the guts to trust them to do the right thing. Why should an average citizen trust them?

pepper55bs.bsky.social•3 days ago

Remember, we have pride in saving our democracy! The legal way!

wfulford.bsky.social•3 days ago

As an attorney I completely agree.

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