This is a really important piece illustrating how the legal profession has changed since Watergate.
If the rule of law is to be the guardrail of constitutional democracy, we can't have competing norms and standards or partisanship muddying the waters. But that's exactly what conservatives have done: they've corrupted the legal profession with their partisan law schools, law firms, legal organizations, etc.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/14/opinion/trump-indictment-lawyers.html?unlocked_article_code=VKt_26II0rxwKv2u31aPpc_KLLtvldk6IA634mv4XGE3F7luoR5-3cGg1eH5CSvH1tVW-iykbxTM7aWqJdR8Lo87b524xUrNuIr0zV6s44brI1rqzDh-oGzHGiHXed9h_8HCIEMXQT4cUXqsDccZ1c-w-dfXNZoyEoyffWGH-jgCg2HP_FRl9bOi0IRaORc-aldz2vwIGbbxphAiRJHj0uR2P_uk5RWD1TGPD-TgWhFSxCo9A6TMRqrz3IZRMKqD1HsgKwUg2glr6AxUmdm6m4DlVeMiKaSwbrtUxzmuNQbtr11kw5VLlhj52vcLUHDT0e556jZoE7JT3YAlZW7oumV6&smid=url-share