Stephen L. Carter, Columnist

Trump's Lawyers Are Just Doing Their Jobs

Yes, the recount lawsuits are damaging. But everyone deserves legal counsel.

November 13, 2020 at 11:00 AM EST

Stephen L. Carter is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist, a professor of law at Yale University and author of “Invisible: The Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster.”

Trump’s baseless claims have found an audience.
Photographer: Ethan Miller/Getty Images

Before it’s here, it’s on the Bloomberg Terminal

LEARN MORE

This article is for subscribers only.

President Donald Trump’s lawyers are under siege. The New York Times reports that mega-firm Jones Day is facing pressure from its own attorneys to withdraw from representing him in lawsuits claiming voter fraud. Piling on, the Lincoln Project plans to spend half a million dollars in a public relations campaign attacking the firm. Firms in Arizona and Pennsylvania have changed their minds about taking up the president’s cause. In four decades of teaching law, I’ve never seen anything quite like this.

And it scares me.

Before it’s here, it’s on the Bloomberg Terminal

LEARN MORE