Abstract
ABSTRACT This article explores why lawyers participate in attacks on the rule of law by examining the career trajectories of lawyers involved in the “Stop the Steal” campaign to overturn the results of the 2020 US presidential election. The article uses biographical information about “Trump lawyers” to identify distinctive paths into the campaign and to analyze how those paths were shaped by the interplay of individual motives, like money and power, and structural factors, like political context and practice site. Mapping the roles lawyers played in the 2020 election attack, the article proposes a typology of career trajectories into autocratic movements and considers what they teach about the influence of rising polarization and stratification on American lawyers' relationship to democracy.
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