I write in response to the article in the New York Law Journal concerning The Lincoln Project’s campaign targeting law firms that are representing President Trump and the Republican Party, which is based on The Lincoln Project’s view that all claims of election irregularities are without merit.

Whether such claims are meritorious or not is a legitimate matter for the courts, not those with a political agenda, to decide. Indeed, if the claims are determined to be completely meritless, courts are authorized to issue severe sanctions against the parties and/or their attorneys. If New York lawyers are to honor their solemn oath of office, not to mention the value we place, as Americans, on freedom of association and free trade in ideas, such shaming campaigns should be recognized and roundly rejected for what they are: bullying attempts to, as Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes famously wrote, “check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death.”