Claris Park. “First Amendment and the Rule of Law: Lawyers and Their Duty to Democracy.” Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, vol. 35, no. 4 (2022): 1039-1056.
This article examines the legal repercussions faced by lawyers who defended former President Trump’s election fraud claims, analyzing the tension between First Amendment protections and professional ethical obligations, and proposes a revised framework to assess when a lawyer’s conduct, such as that of Sidney Powell, should be protected or sanctioned.