When Lawyers Flout the Law
By ignoring the rules, the Trump administration exposed the innumerable fissures in our democracy. With Mike "My Pillow" Lindell's b.s. defamation suit, lawyers are taking it even further.
Lisa Needham
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Lisa Needham is an attorney who has worked in the areas of First Amendment, education, and labor law. She is a contributor to Rewire, where she writes about LGBTQ and reproductive-health legal issues, and Shareblue, where she writes about politics. She is ride or die for Dionne Warwick, Doris Day, and the Oxford comma.
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