Note: These are my personal thoughts and do not in anyway represent the opinions of my employer, the Minnesota State, Hennepin County, and Ramsey County Bar Associations. *** May 1, 2025 was National Law Day of Action. Events to mark the day were held throughout the nation, with 1,500-2,000 attending in New York City. Organizers encouraged attorneys to retake their oath as part of the planned events in order to reaffirm their commitment to the…
I have seen the term “5-alarm fire” used multiple times to describe the destruction the Trump administration and Musk’s DOGE are wreaking against the U.S. Constitution and democracy. I’ve used the term myself, in fact. At this point, with the administration imprisoning immigrants and visitors from other countries with little to no evidence against them, forcing giant law firms and universities to capitulate to Trump’s whims, attacking organizations that promote diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility,…
Wow, it’s been a helluva six weeks, hasn’t it? Elon Musk and Donald Trump, along with their enablers, are shredding U.S. democracy and the federal government at a pace so rapid it makes my head spin. I thought there were more safeguards in place, what with the whole three-branches-of-government-separation-of-powers thing. But, the Framers of the Constitution apparently didn’t foresee one political party acting in bad faith (gerrymandering, preventing people from voting, stacking the Supreme Court,…