lawyering

The most ringing critique of the Trump administration’s lawyering was issued Tuesday by Judge Richard Leon of Washington, D.C., who declared Trump’s executive order targeting the firm WilmerHale “unconstitutional ... in its entirety.”

It should be boom times for the so-called white powder bar, as the practice of lawyering for the world’s most prolific drug pushers has been dubbed.

This is partially by design: Lawyering is a specialized profession that requires a real depth of knowledge.

Slate legal expert Dahlia Lithwick said "We saw some shoddy, shoddy lawyering in some of these new executive orders":

But there was a limit to his tolerance for big swings, especially those that reflected poor lawyering by unscrupulous Trump loyalists.