A short time ago, former American lawyer, Barar McCadad to publish This is the clip From a standard interview for higher education with Lee Bolinger, first amendment researcher, Dean of the former Law Faculty and former President of the University of Michigan and Colombia. I notice the biography of the mini image because Bollinger, regardless of the objective qualities, went up to the summits of two constitutive contracts of power in American civil society: the legal profession and the university system.
He said this …
We are in the midst of the authoritarian acquisition of the United States government. He is coming and comes, and not everyone is ready to read it in this way. Persons with people who are considered to be people, such as Urban and Putin, etc., indicate that the strategy is the creation of a non -liberal, democratic, democratic, or strong democratic democracy. This is what we are witnessing. Our problem is partially the failure of imagination. We cannot see ourselves to see how this will reveal in his most fearful versions. You neutralize government branches. You neutralize the media. You neutralize universities, and you are on your way.
We started to see the effects on universities. It is very scary.
Anyone who reads TPM or any of other posts or online conversations, this is not a sudden or strange statement. This is a conversation we are all in the middle. But this first sentence is important: “We are in the midst of the authoritarian acquisition of the United States government.” This is what is happening. We are in the middle. As she is unfamiliar like words and concepts, we all need to focus on this statement. It is not a future possibility or a great truth. We are in the middle, says Bolinger.
This means that if we are political people, if we got up in the American Republic, and if we care about this country, all that we are doing now towards the defeat of this acquisition must be directed. This is not one and I did things. It is complicated. It is often gradual, although it is sometimes unfolded very quickly. The gains can be reversed. In the political field, it is a game of almost zero with the power of the Democratic Party, simply because this is the political power organized in the countries that can compete for the acquisition in the political arena. You may say that you have finished the Democratic Party. And a fine … but then, you will have to re -assemble the coalition more or less identical under a different sticker. So the difference does not matter to me terribly.
But it is not only politics, or more specifically, it’s not only election policy.
There is a free society not only because there are limits on government authority. The state may have a monopoly of legitimate use of violence. But it does not have a monopoly on power. It is free because there are many decades of strength – cultural, economic and social – in the national field. Universities are one of these. The private sector economy is another.
There was another in the news during the past week. It will discuss it here, for a short period, because, although it may seem specialized and margins, it is very far from it. They are law firms “Grand Law” in the country. The president recently signed an executive order targeting Perkins KoyIt is a large national law firm, based in Seattle.
The procedures against large law firms may end until it is one of the biggest things that happen now. As you know, I am far from someone who takes a view focusing on lawyers for the world. But large law firms are a critical force knot in the American system. Of course, there are many small companies and independent operators. But this is like saying that there are small independent media like TPM. They are embellished. We are embarrassing – and we are still in the annual membership campaign, so please subscribe! But you don’t want to reduce the press to those places only. Once this is all you have, civil society is to support life. Large law firms provide a lot of access to the most complex and organizational parts in the private economy and trade. Often, you really really want these people as a defensive lawyer. If the major companies are heading to government dependency, this is a really big problem.
Now, people who get these types of prestigious and assigned lawyers in general tend to work with or defend them until they are relatively rich and strong. But this only means that Penumbra of obedience extends further. In any society, you need at least a small level of support within power structures. You may have access to the courts. But if you lack access to the appropriate lawyers, your arrival becomes fast by default.
Perkins Koy, we must notice, he or at least we were at least to be the law firm for the Democratic Party. (Watch that introduction at the ceremony with the increasing party and government attacks on Actblue.) Even if Perkins Coie got the Trump attack that EO fell in court, if you are a big company, do you want to work with them? The White House has made it clear that he was looking at them as enemies? Why do you want to take it? It is the same reason that the large large companies that have many major news organizations in the country such as ABC and CBS are flowing on themselves to settle ridiculous claims with Donald Trump and breach millions of dollars.
And Birkins Koy It was not the lastDespite the fact that a federal judge has already prevented Trump Birkins Koy. He has followed similar attacks on Paul, Weiss and Covengtton and Berling.
These are not Clarence Daru operations. The world of the major law consists of companies that often provide legal services for major and wealthy companies, although most of them also have great free practices. The best partners make great income. They make the incomplete “victims”. But this is not somewhat Chi Guevara. We need to think coolly and creatively about the multiple nodes of the non -governmental authority that makes the free society applicable.
One thing we have seen with universities is that at least mostly and at least so far each goal has been hit and dealt with the situation more or less alone. I heard from this week’s source participating in how the great pioneering public university in a very red state took a loss in the body in the financing associated with scientific research and they were only trying to decline, saying all this is possible. It is clear that teamwork will be necessary to fight this between universities and the legal profession and many other decades of the authority that the White House wants to bend to its will.
We have a huge function on our hands and there is no guarantee we will succeed. But the first step of acting is to know your place exactly. People who think in terms of VikTor Orbán are not surprised by every consecutive step. It is actually a beautiful textbook. How everything rises to the decisions made by countless private actors. This also means supporting institutions that support free society. The issue of glasses should not be. In the most expensive, it means not changing behavior. One of a bright moment came on the Grand Law Front last week when it was the large -sized Lawyer company, but it was very prestigious and Williams and Konoli In the Perkins Koy case and filed a lawsuit with 14 individual lawyersIncluding the former president of the company, fell as lawyers in the case.
Once again it looks all that is eclipse and standing. But this is the critical contract of power in a free society. They may be Revis, and they may be the institution and many of their muscles go to the powerful service. But when their strength has receded the power of the state, it enlarges its place. Meanwhile, everything that is going on within the government is being implemented for one purpose: that the power of the state is in fact an irregular and reckless will for one man, Donald Trump.
Maga is not afraid of her love for Victor Urban and his model of getting rid of tyranny. It is not a dark thing or something like falling into a white superior letter plate. It is completely open. They hold their conferences there. It is completely frank. It is perfect.
Nothing of this is good. But clarity itself has strength. Once you know where to stop being confusing by every new development. You start to be able to build strategies based on reality in front of you. You can take action with a realistic opportunity to succeed. The vast majority of political media in the United States does not get this or does not explain the news through this post. They use the perspective of traditional electoral policy and the battles of the capital and try to pressure the new world in this model, however, a kind of getting something and sometimes says that something does not seem to be completely suitable. Free media is another critical knot of strength.
I do not want to re -communicate the events last week in the Senate. It was done and you know where it stood. What still deserves to say is that you should have made your decision (and all these future decisions) about the right path to work based on any likely to slow down, hinder or defeat what Paulinger calls “an” authoritarian acquisition “of the United States government.
This is where we are. Observer, Urian, decided, behave. The side that behaves faster and smarter.