But Who Lawyers the Lawyers?
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🗓️ 24 February 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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OA1129 - From the Department of Justice to DOGE to elected officials around the US, attorneys who swore to uphold and defend the law are working overtime on the bureaucratic front lines of Donald Trump’s campaign to actively degrade and destroy it. But what if those lawyers knew that there could be real consequences for their ability to practice law in the future for illegal, bad faith, and/or unethical conduct?
That question is at the heart of the 65 Project, a non-profit organized to introduce real consequences to the kind of lawyering which is greasing the skids in our long slide into authoritarianism. Managing Director Michael Teter joins to explain how the Project came together, how they decide whether misconduct merits a bar complaint, and how their mission has changed since the 2024 election.
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| 0:00.0 | You must never ever give up or give in. |
| 0:03.1 | You must keep the faith and keep your eyes on the prize. |
| 0:07.5 | That is your calling. |
| 0:08.9 | That is your mission. |
| 0:10.0 | That is your moral obligation. |
| 0:12.0 | That is your mandate. |
| 0:13.4 | Get out there and do it. |
| 0:15.0 | Get in the way. |
| 0:26.6 | Change. Change happens because people care. You the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. |
| 0:36.6 | I still believe with all my heart, America can't. free and beautiful to make this life a wonderful adventure. |
| 0:47.9 | I still believe with all my heart, America can be a place where no child is left hungry, no community is left behind, and no one gets told they don't belong. |
| 0:55.0 | The fight for our country is always worth it. |
| 0:59.5 | Hello and welcome to opening arguments. |
| 1:01.2 | This is episode 1129. |
| 1:04.6 | I'm your host Thomas Smith and I am so excited for today's show. |
| 1:10.2 | Ever since Matt began his obsession with John Eastman and then we covered John Eastman's horrible movie, which referenced |
| 1:12.9 | the 65 Project. And of course, Alan Dershowitz had some ridiculously unlawyerly quotes about the |
| 1:19.3 | 65 Project in that, I guess we'll call it a documentary, even though I don't think it deserves |
| 1:23.9 | to be called that. But anyway, point is, ever since all that, we have been dying to talk to somebody from the 65 Project. And if you don't remember, these are folks |
| 1:31.7 | that took it upon themselves to try to actually get lawyers in trouble for the coup that they |
| 1:37.5 | did or attempted to do in 2020. It's a super cool story. And obviously, from our point of view, |
| 1:42.4 | a very worthwhile project. and I can't believe |
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