Jeff Clark@JeffClarkUS
This nonsense has to end. The State and local bars are not the superior officers of or the equivalent of a school-marmish national Principal's Office that sits in supervision of two highest-ranking leaders of the Justice Department.
No way. It's completely unconstitutional.
DOJ has the power to put an end to this nonsense by issuing regulations preempting state/local bar weaponization. It has a proposed rule pending which, with appropriate amendments, are logical outgrowths of the proposal itself, and so could be issued in final form to put an immediate and complete stop to this.
And if Congress were not asleep, it would quickly pass legislation ending this as well.
If this trend continues, no future Republican lawyer is going to agree to enter the U.S. Justice Department to carry out the President's law enforcement orders as the Constitution intended.
Power will instead be monopolized and moved only to the Left. The professional bar processes were never intended to be tools of that massive usurpation of Article II constitutional power.
It's what Norm Eisen wants. But it's not what any rational American citizen should want. And regardless of whether Congress or DOJ act to confirm the requisite preemption of state/local ethics law, the Eleventh Circuit must reverse this abominable decision.
The Framers would be shocked to learn that the real boss of Executive Branch legal power is not the singular President of the United States, but instead committees of insular coastal elite lawyers purporting to wield the meta-power of legal ethics.
It's a constitutional system turned on its head to empower a group of people who should wield, at most, tiny amounts of power to instead lead the whole Executive Branch around by the nose.
