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I asked the six law firms representing the authors for their response to Chhabria’s implicit criticism of their lawyering, but heard back from only one — Boies Schiller Flexner, which told me by email, “despite the undisputed record of Meta’s historically unprecedented pirating of copyrighted works, the court ruled in Meta’s favor. We respectfully disagree with that conclusion.”

The most ringing critique of the Trump administration’s lawyering was issued Tuesday by Judge Richard Leon of Washington, D.C., who declared Trump’s executive order targeting the firm WilmerHale “unconstitutional ... in its entirety.”

It should be boom times for the so-called white powder bar, as the practice of lawyering for the world’s most prolific drug pushers has been dubbed.

This is partially by design: Lawyering is a specialized profession that requires a real depth of knowledge.

Slate legal expert Dahlia Lithwick said "We saw some shoddy, shoddy lawyering in some of these new executive orders":