376 Former Judges Amicus Brief in Support of Plaintiff

Key Excerpts

• Efforts to use governmental power to bend lawyers to the political interests or views of an administration may impair the candor on which judges rely and usurp judges’ role in regulating the conduct of lawyers who appear before them. The adversarial system cannot function properly with such an incursion into the judicial role.
• Contrary to the implication of the presidential statement accompanying the Order, the nation is not undermined when claims are adjudicated in its courts. Parties dissatisfied with a ruling may appeal and seek to show by law and logic why they should prevail.
• Amici swore to uphold our system of justice. The Order threatens our system of justice, and the rule of law itself.