The Imperative of Solidarity in Response to Assaults on Legal Services, Universities, and Independent Media
Streaming Media
Abstract
Through the fog of norm-defying news, at least one pattern is clear: President Donald Trump is targeting three bulwarks of democracy and the rule of law: lawyers (law firms and legal service organizations), academics (universities), and journalists (independent news media). His emerging playbook is to bully some of the most privileged institutions in these fields to publicly submit to his agenda. Law firms including Covington and Burling, Paul Weiss, and Perkins Coie; universities like Columbia; and media outlets like the Associated Press have been the first targets of Trump’s spectacle of attempted subordination. They will not be the last.
There are lessons to be learned from resistance work by targeted communities in the U.S. and abroad on how to respond to such assaults.
External Links
https://www.justsecurity.org/109439/collective-law-firms-universities-media/
Source Publication
JUST SECURITY
Repository Citation
Rebecca Hamilton,
The Imperative of Solidarity in Response to Assaults on Legal Services, Universities, and Independent Media,
JUST SECURITY
(2025).
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/pub_disc_media/637