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Salon
Salon
Politics
Gregg Barak

Outlaw lawyers — and outlaw presidents

State crimes committed by outlaw lawyers who endanger the rule of law on behalf of a president (or, in the current instance, a former president) are not without precedent in modern American history. Most recently, such crimes have happened under the "law and order" administrations of Republican Presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush and Donald Trump. 

To be specific, "outlaw lawyers" describes attorneys who have abandoned the practices of representing or counseling clients consistent with their oaths to support the Constitution and laws of the United States as well as those of all states where they are licensed to practice.

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