When the Right sues the Right: Why conservative lawyers are challenging Trump

Published July 18, 2025 5:07am ET



Some of the most prominent minds behind the conservative legal movement are fighting a Republican president and his administration in court and it’s putting these elite attorneys, many champions of the Right for their past efforts to combat the administrative state, on President Donald Trump‘s bad side.

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