August 10, 2025
Brian Dunaway wrote:
Mr. Trump certainly has a right to take a victory lap. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled against US District Judge James Boasberg, who “said he found probable cause to hold the administration in contempt because it purportedly violated his orders to halt deportations under the Alien Enemies Act.” In strong language, the Court of Appeals responded that “the government’s initial implementation of the proclamation clearly and indisputably was not criminal.”
But of course, winning is relatively unimportant, not even being the primary purpose of lawfare. The spectacularly evil part of lawfare is that it, in various circumstances: consumes the only irreversible physical attribute in the universe (time); permits evil to continue unabated while right action is slowed, hindered, corrupted or quashed; and in many cases, bankrupts and embitters the persecuted parties.
To be certain, that is the raison d’être of lawfare: to consume time, consume resources, consume wealth, and consume the souls of those whom it targets for persecution or prosecution.
