Lawfare Group
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Lawfare Group is a radical group of leftist lawyers in Washington, D.C. that, according to its website, operate in "that nebulous zone in which actions taken or contemplated to protect the nation interact with the nation’s laws and legal institutions."[1] Its founder is Benjamin Wittes and is associated with the Brookings Institution. It sends out a daily newsletter called the Lawfareblog.
During the Obama administration the Lawfare group:
- (1) weaponized the IRS for political targeting;
- (2) weaponized the DOJ and FBI for political targeting;
- (3) weaponized the intelligence community for political activism;
- (4) created new legal theories around ‘disparate impact’ to weaponize the National Labor Relations Board; and generally used embedded officials to advance far-left political interests across the spectrum of government.
After the 2016 presidential election the Lawfare group immediately sought to:
- (1) delegitimize the presidency of Donald Trump;
- (2) delegitimize National Security Advisor General Michael Flynn;
- (3) target, disempower and isolate Attorney General Jeff Sessions;
- (4) delegitimize AG Bill Barr and the institution of the FBI outside their control;
- (5) delegitimize DHS, Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE); and
- (6) delegitimize Justice Brett Kavanaugh and any institution or office that would now be removing or overturning their former Lawfare constructs.