Agreed. I’d like to point out to every single Congressman that you have conservative prosecutors at the DOJ resigning rather than drop charges against Adams, and these cowards won’t even risk facing an opponent in an election.
We constantly hear from people inside Congress that privately most of them know what Trump is. This is cowardice like I have never seen.
This web site was new to me, but it seems legitimate, and the journalist has a strong resume (Politico and National Journal):
Exclusive: Hegseth orders Cyber Command to stand down on Russia planning
Maybe they’ll switch to planning attacks on Mexico, Panama, Canada, and Greenland 
Pretty sure I saw the same story on mainstream media, possibly CNN, so probably legit and certainly par for the course.
Worth mentioning this story’s prior appearance here:
Kari Lake’s confirmation, to head the Voice of America, is still a work in progress, but the administration isn’t waiting for that:
‘Treasonous’: Trump investigates public media reporters for criticizing his administration
I was expecting that the Trump administration would fake economic statistics to hide the damage they are doing, and it’s starting:
The Trump administration may exclude government spending from GDP, obscuring the impact of DOGE cuts
Building a tank we can’t use — or that our adversaries can easily destroy — is apparently what makes for real GDP.
It looks like the House Judiciary Committee has scheduled, “Legislative Reforms to End Lawfare by State and Local Prosecutors”
It’s very difficult to read that as anything other than, “Reforms to prevent criminal repercussions for anything I do while in office.”
“Lawfare”? WTF?
It’s Republican for, “Defund the police.”
Trump already defunded the police back in 2020 while blaming Biden for planning to do it. I assume that he was trying to grab the black vote and figured that there’d be limited reporting on it outside of that community. (Which seemed to pan out.)
But no, I’d assume that this is something to do with campaigning and election integrity.
It seems like they are really going to implement tariffs on Mexico and Canada tomorrow.
I was beginning to believe it was all bluster, but
I would like to see GM and Ford show some guts and immediately idle a couple of factories. But instead they will probably declare tariffs wonderful, tell Trump they’re going to add some jobs in the US, and ask for an exemption.
I’m not entirely sure of the term. Does it conflate welfare or warfare. I thought the latter, as they complained of the “weaponization” of the legal system.
Gotta hand it to them - they aren’t weaponizing the legal system so much as simply ignoring it and doing whatever the fuck they want!
I believe you are correct.
(Did the world really need another obscure pseudolegal term? 
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Google search:
What is meant by lawfare?
AI Overview
Lawfare is the use of legal processes to achieve political goals, or to damage an opponent. It can involve using the law to intimidate or hinder an opponent, or to delegitimize an enemy.
As always, it’s nothing but projection with Trump. You know those horrible, awful, irreversible, unamerican things that Biden is alleged to have done to the US?
He didn’t. None of them. Not one.
But Trump has, Trump does, and Trump will. And he’s not even being coy about it at this point.
Never forget: with Trump, every accusation is actually an admission. And the only more stunning example than “Lawfare” is probably “rigged election.”
It’s more “Defund the prosecutors”. They don’t mind having cops around to arrest regular people, but they hate it when the DoJ or States Attorneys start looking at them and their Republican buddies.
And it needs to be said…
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
–Frank Wilhoit (the composer, NOT the political scientist)
Are we able to make predictions? I looked for a “Predict the Next Trump Horror” thread but didn’t see one.
We’ve seen many places where what Trump is doing is straight from an autocrat’s playbook, including things such as spreading lies, identifying scapegoat groups, purging neutral civil servants and replacing them with loyalists, seizing control of the military, muzzling the press, and so on. What we haven’t seen yet, but I expect we will, is arrest of opposition leaders. We saw a glimpse of it with “lock her up!” but no actual arrests on spurious charges yet.
Yet. I predict we will. Any guesses on which Democratic leader will be first and for what? I’m guessing AOC (a woman AND a minority!). For what, not sure; slander, maybe (mouthing off about God-King Trump and his annointed demigods) or incitement of unrest (sharing her opinions) or unpaid parking tickets, whatever. But I predict we will and before too many more weeks have passed.
The AI appears to be giving a new, corrupted form of the word.
Until recently, I’ve only ever seen the word as meaning using the legal system to achieve foreign policy goals as an alternative to warfare (which matches the portmanteau).
I see that someone has modified the top of the Wikipedia article to give the same definition as your AI (presumably, that’s where the AI got it from) but, if you read the rest of the article, there’s no such example of the usage and - again - it demonstrates that the history is as an alternative to warfare.
I’d assume that the word was deliberately attacked due to the Lawfare Blog, run by the Brookings Institute, which was started by a group of largely GW Bush lawyers who had chased the Clintons for corrupt activities in their heyday, and who supported the legal investigations of Trump.
It has to do with Trump being mad that he’s had to face state and local charges for his various misdeeds. This will be his payback.
Well, not yet. They have to trash the country a lot more before they start show trials about who is to blame.