JONATHAN TURLEY: The public rejected lawfare when they re-elected Trump

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : Yale Law Professor Samuel Moyn has long been a favorite of the New York Times as part of what I have previously described as a counter-constitutional movement in higher education.
43% : One poll asked whether Trump or Harris "would do a better job" of "defending against threats to democracy," 43 percent picked Trump while 40 percent picked Harris.
39% : However, it was not necessarily a verdict for Trump as much as it was against the lawfare and advocacy journalism that had been used openly for years.
35% : Moyn's column "Liberals Bet They Could Beat Trump With the Law," regrets the lawfare, not because it distorted the law and weaponized the legal system, but because it did not work.
33% : However, arguably the most perplexing response came a few days ago when the New York Times ran a column from one of the advocates of the lawfare used against Trump since 2016.
32% : As soon as Trump came into office, he faced an acting Attorney General, Sally Yates, who ordered the department to stand down and not assist the new president in his immigration orders.
32% : Voters in swing states felt that Trump was more likely to protect democracy than Kamala Harris, who was running on a "save democracy" platform.
31% : What they saw was efforts at ballot cleansing to remove Trump and other Republicans from the ballots.
30% : The New York Times long lionized those who brought raw partisan prosecutions against Trump and his allies, including efforts to cleanse ballots to deny citizens the opportunity to vote for the man who just won the popular vote.

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