NPLA Issues Statement on the Recent Actions of the Executive Branch
As law students, we aspire to fight for justice and to uphold constitutional values. The recent actions by the Executive Branch undermine those values.
The National Plaintiffs’ Law Association (NPLA) condemns the use of Executive Orders by the current Presidential Administration as tools of political retaliation. These attempts to chill free speech and political expression in the nation’s leading law firms threaten the bedrock principles of freedom and justice for all.
The increasing willingness of large law firms to pledge material support for the Administration’s political agenda has sowed division in what should be a united legal community.
Lawyers in this country make a pledge to uphold the values of the Constitution and to challenge government overreach, especially when it threatens the most basic tenets of our democracy and the rule of law. A legal community devoid of these core values cannot represent the ideals for which our democracy stands.
The National Plaintiffs’ Law Association calls upon law students to refuse employment at law firms that have chosen to undermine the constitutional protections and sanctity of American jurisprudence.
Their capitulations must not be followed by our own.
