Some people think so, but I am not so sure . . . as I explain in an essay for The Dispatch.
Newland has come to the conclusion that she and her colleagues, who were “some of the country’s finest lawyers,” should all have quit at the earliest opportunity, which would have left the Trump administration in the hands of some of the “second-rate lawyers,” like Rudy Giuliani, who have clownishly failed to overturn the presidential election. Given their “lack of basic legal skills,” says Newland, those attorneys might likewise have failed in their attempts to defend Trump’s Muslim ban and other ugly and destructive policies.
Having watched Giuliani and his co-counsel flail away in swing-state election cases, she attributes the Trump campaign’s multiple losses to representation by attorneys “who can't master the basic mechanics of lawyering.” The implication, of course, is that first-rate lawyers might somehow have succeeded in overturning the election, which gives far too little credit to the courts. In fact, the election challenges have bombed because they could not be supported by either law or facts. There was no election fraud, as Attorney General William Barr himself has acknowledged, and there is no legal path to keep Trump in office, as conservative and Trump-appointed judges have consistently ruled.
You can read the entire piece here.
NOTE: the link has been fixed.
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