Democrats suspended Rudy Giuliani's law license for defending Donald Trump.
He wasn't the only target – and not a single organization existed to fight back.
A former Trump DOJ official just changed that with something the left never saw coming.
Jeff Clark Survived the Lawfare Machine and Now He's Running It in Reverse
Jeff Clark knows exactly what the Left's legal machine looks like from the inside – because he's been its target since January 2021.
As acting assistant attorney general under Trump, Clark drafted an internal letter questioning the 2020 election – one that never left his desk.
Democrats in the Senate Judiciary Committee filed a complaint, and the DC Bar had what it needed to pursue disbarment.
The Board on Professional Responsibility recommended disbarment in July 2025.
The case sits before the DC Court of Appeals – and in May 2026, the Trump DOJ filed a federal lawsuit against DC's disciplinary authorities to shut the whole proceeding down.
Three former attorneys general – William Barr, Jeff Sessions, and Michael Mukasey – have backed Clark through the fight.
Trump pardoned Clark after his 2024 victory, and he joined the Oversight Project as vice president of litigation before going on offense this week.
"Under the banner of The Oversight Project, I am opening a new law firm that I will lead to combat government weaponization of all types," Clark announced on X.
Oversight Project Targets Conservative Lawyer Disbarments, Bogus Indictments, and Bar Discipline Abuses
The firm targets three areas the Left has owned for years with no organized conservative resistance.
First: abuses of congressional and state legislative branch oversight – the kind of politically driven investigations Democrats have promised to launch if they retake the House majority in November.
Second: what Clark is calling "barfare" – state bar associations using the disciplinary process to strip law licenses from conservative lawyers for the offense of representing conservative clients or causes.
Clark's own disbarment fight is the template.
California stripped Trump adviser John Eastman of his law license in April for advising Trump that Vice President Pence could legally challenge Biden's 2020 Electoral College certification. Eastman insists the arguments were constitutionally grounded and made in good faith for his client. California called them grounds for disbarment.
The DC Bar went after Trump's own pardon attorney, Ed Martin, for a letter warning Georgetown Law that his office would stop hiring its students because of the school's DEI programs. The bar called it coercion. The DOJ called the DC Bar partisan.
None of this was accidental. In 2022, left-wing operative David Brock – the Media Matters founder – launched a dark-money group called the 65 Project with one stated goal: disbar more than 100 Trump-connected lawyers across 26 states.
Brock told reporters the mission was to make these attorneys "toxic in their communities and in their firms." He put the strategy plainly: "I think the littler fish are probably more vulnerable to what we're doing. You're threatening their livelihood."
The goal was never to win bar complaints. The goal was to make conservative legal talent too costly for any Republican to use.
Third: the dismissal of bogus criminal indictments – the kind of prosecutorial weaponization that put Trump himself in courtrooms across four jurisdictions before three of those cases collapsed entirely.
Clark is already recruiting, with a team holding experience across all three branches of the federal government, and plans to expand significantly.
Donald Trump Jr. gave the project his public endorsement: "Good stuff. Important work."
The Left Has Had This Legal Machine for Decades – Conservatives Just Fired Back
Nobody built anything to counter it during four years of Trump prosecutions, lawyer disbarments, and congressional subpoenas targeting everyone connected to the 45th president.
The Left built that machine over a century – the ACLU alone dates to 1920 – and in the decades that followed, liberal legal groups used every lever available, including bar discipline, to punish anyone who stood in their way.
Conservatives built think tanks and delivered floor speeches while the Left weaponized the courtroom.
The Oversight Project launched to fill that gap – what its backers call an "actiontank" rather than a think tank.
Clark's new firm takes it further: filing aggressive cases against Democrat lawfare operatives and applying the same pressure they directed at Trump's allies.
That includes going after bar associations directly – not just defending individual targets, but tearing down the apparatus they have used to do it.
"Evil lawfare needs to end," the Oversight Project declared.
For six years they made Clark their target.
Now he's their problem.
Sources:
- Fred Lucas, "Evil Lawfare Needs to End: Oversight Project Unveils New Firm to Combat Government Weaponization," Daily Signal, September 18, 2026.
- Staff, "Jeff Clark Recruits Lawyers for New Law Firm to 'Combat Government Weaponization,'" Just the News, September 17, 2026.
- Staff, "DOJ Goes After DC Bar Association Over Alleged Lawfare Against Trump Admin Attorneys," Daily Caller, May 14, 2026.
- Staff, "Jeff Clark's Yearslong Disbarment Fight Tests Reach of DC Bar Over Trump DOJ," Washington Examiner, July 2026.
- Staff, "Oversight Project Welcomes Jeffrey Clark as Vice President, Litigation," Oversight Project, June 17, 2026.
- Staff, "New Group Aims to Disbar Attorneys Who Aided Trump 2020 Election Lawsuits," Washington Examiner, March 2022.
- Rachel Alexander, "Barfare: Will SCOTUS Reverse the Disbarment of John Eastman?" Townhall, September 14, 2026.
