Scott L. Cummings. “Why do lawyers attack the rule of law? Trajectories of ‘Trump Lawyers.’” International Journal of the Legal Profession, vol. 32, no. 1 (2025): 19-44.
This article investigates why lawyers participated in efforts to undermine the rule of law during the “Stop the Steal” campaign by analyzing the career trajectories of key figures, revealing how individual motives and structural factors shaped their involvement, and offering a typology of legal paths into autocratic movements that reflects broader trends of polarization and professional stratification in American democracy.