{"id":20878,"date":"2025-12-31T15:57:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T15:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=20878"},"modified":"2025-12-31T15:57:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T15:57:15","slug":"why-one-lawyer-resigned-when-his-firm-caved-to-trump-an-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=20878","title":{"rendered":"Why One Lawyer Resigned When His Firm Caved to Trump: An Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Multiple law firms gave in to illegal, autocratic demands by the president. When it came down to it, big law firms didn&#8217;t want to risk resisting an aggressive president. Democracy is vulnerable and we won&#8217;t keep it unless people defend it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why One Lawyer Resigned When His Firm Caved to Trump: An Update\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U8mCMe9MDpk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple law firms gave in to illegal, autocratic demands by the president. When it came down to it, big law firms didn&#8217;t want to risk resisting an aggressive president. Democracy is vulnerable and we won&#8217;t keep it unless people defend it. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=U8mCMe9MDpk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1104,864,431,660,221,1637,201,170],"class_list":["post-20878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-authoritarianism","tag-autocracy","tag-democracy","tag-dictatorship","tag-donald-trump","tag-lawyer","tag-rule-of-law","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20879,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20878\/revisions\/20879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}