Now Is The Perfect Time For Trump To Strike Down The Left’s Legal Monopoly |
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Now Is The Perfect Time For Trump To Strike Down The Left’s Legal Monopoly
Trump is not introducing politics into a neutral institution; he is attempting to level a field that has been tilted for a generation.
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On June 8, members of the D.C. Bar elected Joshua Mogil their next president. Mogil is a senior associate at WilmerHale, one of the four firms that sued the Trump Administration and secured a ruling striking down its executive order as unconstitutional retaliation. He spent the Obama and Biden Administrations inside DOJ, including a tour as Deputy Chief of Staff to Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco. He worked under Sally Yates at DOJ and credits her as his professional hero, the Acting Attorney General fired by President Trump in 2017 for refusing to defend his travel ban. His campaign platform was, in his own words, “empowering the D.C. Bar to speak out in support of the rule of law” against what he called “unprecedented attacks on our system of justice.” If you wanted to design the perfect avatar of the partisan legal machine, you could not improve on his resume.
Three weeks before that, on May 14, 2026, the Department of Justice sued the District of Columbia’s Board on Professional Responsibility, which had recommended disbarring Jeff Clark, a former senior Justice Department official, over a letter he drafted in 2020 and never sent. The DOJ suit and Mogil’s election are the latest battles in a multi-front war against one of the most powerful bastions of leftism: lawyers.
Few appreciate that the same profession that has spent a decade pursuing political opponents through disciplinary complaints, novel prosecutions, and ideological licensing requirements also controls who is allowed to practice it. The American legal profession does not lean left by a polite margin. Among the largest firms, Democratic-to-Republican giving runs about 12 to 1, and the rest of the profession leans strongly left as well. This is the talent pool from which judges, prosecutors, regulators, and a vast share of legislators are drawn, and the bodies that regulate them are........