There are lawyers who specialize in being weird.
There are defense attorneys who take horrible people, there are divorce lawyers who clean out the other spouse.
The nation needed and needs a cadre of lawyers KNOWN specifically to deal in hat-stealings, doxxings, firings for liking Trump, lawn sign stealings.
Lawyers who have wealthy backing, who are finely trained in exactly that, and won't get tired.
Sleep with the First Amendment, brush their teeth with the Second, and bathe in labor law, and in real estate discrimination law.
So how to have such?
You a central committee of them, with a few senior tigers who have seen it all, and who have means and position to say to the younger ones: don't worry. We have your back. We will make sure you work, or get professorships, or something.
One or two wealthy, quite wealthy, people need to care that free speech not die in America, and there just have to be a few who do.
Not every lawyer is loved. We need some of those.
There are lawyers who specialize in being weird.
There are defense attorneys who take horrible people, there are divorce lawyers who clean out the other spouse.
The nation needed and needs a cadre of lawyers KNOWN specifically to deal in hat-stealings, doxxings, firings for liking Trump, lawn sign stealings.
Wild beast lawyers who don't care, who have wealthy backing, who you know to call just for that. And the judge knows that lawyer doesn't care, and is finely trained in exactly that, and won't get tired.
Sleeps with the First Amendment, brushes his teeth with the Second, and bathes in labor law, and in real estate discrimination law.
So how to have such?
You needed and need a central committee of such, with a few senior tigers who have seen it all, and who have means and position to say to the younger ones: don't worry. We have your back. We will make sure you work, or get professorships, or something.
The Gay movement depended on a few rich funders at its beginning, when it was quite weird and odd, but these rich ones put their money into it, and changed public opinion. That costs money. Large, large, sums were spent.
One or two wealthy, quite wealthy, people need to care that free speech not die in America, and there just have to be a few who do.
Where are they and why didn't they do anything for the last four years, is a question. It is always harder to play catch-up ball. It is now harder to do, than it would have been, to keep these horrors from sinking in deeply into the public mind.
Not every lawyer is loved. We need some of those.