nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/f09ae160da070892 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 250730s2025||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/f09ae160da070892 doi eng 342 23 Pires, Felipe Luciano Author aut The Legal Profession in the Executive Branch - Lessons from Brazil Pires, Felipe Luciano Verfassungsblog 2025-07-30 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier The Trump administration is reshaping the roles of the U.S. legal profession and the civil service to use them as a tool to support the President’s political interests. This impacts an understudied and politically significant group of bureaucrats: government lawyers. They play a critical gatekeeper role in establishing legal principles that can both enable and hinder the systematic weakening of democratic institutions. The case of Brazil has a lot of important lessons to offer. CC BY-SA 4.0 Bolsonaro Bolsonaro Jair | 1955– | Politiker; Abgeordneter; Staatspräsident Brasilien Brazil Democratic Backsliding Government Government lawyers Jair Bolsonaro (DE-588)1168630924 gnd Bolsonaro Jair | 1955– | Politiker; Abgeordneter; Staatspräsident (DE-588)4008003-1 gnd Brasilien Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-legal-profession-in-the-executive-branch/ raw object