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Politically appointed lawyers sometimes frustrated Donald J. Trump’s ambitions. His allies are planning to install more aggressive legal gatekeepers if he regains the White House.
As Team Trump considers a possible second term, it's reportedly concluded that lawyers associated with the Federalist Society simply aren't radical enough.
Close allies of former President Donald Trump are preparing to populate a new administration with a more aggressive breed of right-wing lawyer, dispensing with traditional conservatives who they believe stymied his agenda in his first term. The allies have been drawing up lists of lawyers they view as ideologically and temperamentally suited to serve in a second Trump administration. Their aim is to reduce the chances that politically appointed lawyers would frustrate a more radical White House
The aide who was Anonymous writes, under his own name, with an urgency the New York Times and others should note
Trump was obsessed with “illegals” and “lawlessness.” But his own Department of Homeland Security was breaking the rules for who was supposed to be Secretary.