“I write concerning the troubling operations of the 65 Project, a radical activist group actively targeting legal professionals. The 65 Project identifies and targets lawyers who represent or associate with clients they ‘disapprove’ of on personal, ideological, and political grounds. This group has increasingly pursued disbarment for lawyers for reasons unrelated to their professional duty and without any dereliction of duty or misconduct. They have been weaponized as a partisan political vendetta machine.The 65 Project, falsely parading as a bipartisan entity, is nothing short of a political intimidation tool, armed and operated by their partisan allies.”

“Their mission is clear: to systematically dismantle the careers of legal professionals who dare to represent or associate with President Trump. So far, they have successfully ‘identified’ and targeted 111 lawyers from 26 states for their involvement in President Trump’s post-election lawsuits. This targeted campaign against lawyers is a brazen attempt to polarize legal advocacy by chilling participation in the market of legal talent that doesn’t ascribe to or oppose a certain political mindset. Targeting attorneys based on their client’s political affiliation undermines the diversity of legal representation and poses a grave threat to the ideals of free speech and fair representation. The tactics employed by this organization are reprehensible, often involving threats of disbarment, public shaming, and underhanded attempts to manipulate the standards of the American Bar Association to serve a partisan agenda,” writes Texas MAGA Congressman Lance Gooden to the American Bar Association, complaining about the effectiveness of The 65 Project.