The Fox News Network is running an online news story today by Fred Lucas. The story is headlined Democratic AGs swarm Trump administration with lawsuits.
The story is accompanied by a pull quote which reads, “This is not about the rule of law or holding the line to stop the feds from preempting state laws; this is about power.” The quote is attributed to .
It has a name, Mr. Will. It’s called “Lawfare.” Think of it as weaponizing the rule of law with the sole purpose of paralyzing and neutralizing a superior opponent. If you and your cronies in the Republican Attorney General Association (RAGA) are just figuring out that “The Resistance” to the Trump election and inauguration is using it, you’ve got a lot of catching up to do. I suggest you read a couple of books.
The first book is Lawfare: Law as a Weapon of War. It was published in 2016.
The second is Lawfare: The War Against Free Speech: A First Amendment Guide for Reporting in an Age of Islamist Lawfare. It was published in 2011.
If the RAGA members doubt that its DAGA counterparts like Washington State’s Robert “Sideshow Bob” Ferguson are intentionally using lawfare to bring the Trump administration to a grinding halt, they should find and read David Brock’s online publication “Democracy Matters – Strategic Plan for Action.” (See OpenCdA post dated August 16, 2017, entitled Understanding the Subversion of the Trump Presidency.) Lawfare is one of the techniques Brock and his fellow travelers discuss in the Strategic Plan for Action.