Track Suits

So who is staying in the game and resisting the slide toward authoritarianism? Lawyers. Even with the associated risks and threats, major corporate law firms have joined legal battle over Trump policies. (I’m calling for a four year moratorium on lawyer jokes. Let’s replace them with lawyer thanks.)

+ There are a lot of cases being brought. And they’re coming almost as quickly as the executive orders. Here’s a look from the NYT (Gift Article): Tracking the Lawsuits Against Trump’s Agenda.

+ “The new resistance to Donald Trump’s presidency had a plan: State attorneys general from Maine to Hawaii would rush to court to stop vast portions of the agenda Trump had spent years promising to deliver. And it’s working.” (Of course, we’re less than a month in…)

+ And some of the resistance is coming from places you wouldn’t expect. Politico: Red-state universities push back against NIH funding cuts.