A overlooked facet of Trump’s tariff bluster were his several off-the-cuff remarks last week that, to get the many trade deals done, he “guessed” he would have to, reluctantly, “use those big law firms.”

In other words, some very lucrative legal contracts are in the offing. That was the carrot.

So it was no surprise when the AP ran a story headlined, “Trump reaches deals with 5 law firms, allowing them to avoid prospect of punishing executive orders.” The last thing the firms want is to be left on the sidelines as smaller firms race up the federal ladder ahead of them. To the chagrin of far-left activists and the American Bar Association (but I repeat myself), five more mega law firms folded like cheap polyester suits last week and agreed to drop DEI, to hire based on merit, to not discriminate on political views, and to provide hundreds of millions in pro-bono (free) legal work to Administration priorities.

In exchange, the EEOC withdrew its pending investigations into the firms’ discriminatory hiring practices.

Countless corporate media articles complained about Trump “targeting” leftist law firms and those who’d helped with RussiaGate and the 2020 Election debacle. But those articles got amnesia about the cancellation and criminal prosecution of conservative attorneys under the Biden Administration. Weird. You’d think it would be a noteworthy comparison.

Anyway, DEI is really dead. The big law firms are the DEI enforcers who blackmail corporations into compliance through lawfare and financial scoring shenanigans. Now they’re sworn to uphold fairness and merit.

It’s the Art of the Deal

Jeff Childers