The allegations and admissions of professional misconduct and criminal conduct by the Trump lawyers in these election challenges and other litigation, coupled with examination of their professional profiles, state Rules of Professional Conduct, the American Bar Association’s Model Rules of Professional Conduct, and data on discipline of attorneys suggest that market incentives and structural weaknesses in current legal education and in the practice environment might encourage or, at least, leave ample room for misconduct.
This seems like it’s more or less working as intended. Trumps lawyers fucked around, and now they’re finding out. We might wish that this all occurred a little faster or was a little more automatic, but at the end of the day they’re being punished for breaking the rules.
The real failure here if there is one is entirely on the executive and legislative side of things not the judicial (well, the Supreme Court is an issue, but that’s also a symptom of the current fuckery in the executive and legislative branches).
What bothers me is that all these accountability efforts depend on people within the system standing up, knowing that they’re going to be doxxed, hounded relentlessly by deranged cultists, have their lives and the lives of their loved ones threatened, and their jobs threatened - simply for trying to hold people accountable. It depends on the efforts of extraordinary people who are in the right place, and it shouldn’t have to. Especially as the cultists become more deranged and threatening.