March 31st 2025

Norm Eisenhower Architect of Lawfare

From Insurrection Barbie on X

Not nearly enough credit is given to the true architect of the chaos and lawfare that has been unleashed on the American populace.

Norm Eisen, a former Obama ethics czar, legal strategist, and co-founder of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) is the architect of the lawfare waged against anyone the democrats deem to be a threat, their number one target of course being Donald Trump.

Eisen’s blueprint for “legal resistance” was outlined in meticulous detail in a 180-page report titled “The Democracy Playbook: Preventing and Reversing Democratic Backsliding”, published by the Brookings Institution. It combined legal theory, political warfare, and institutional capture into a step-by-step guide for undermining Trump’s presidency through lawsuits, congressional investigations, and bureaucratic resistance.

Eisen’s lawfare approach hinges on a few key pillars:

Sue Relentlessly: Encourage civil rights organizations, state attorneys general, and advocacy groups to challenge every executive action—flood the courts, no matter how long the case takes.

Forum Shopping: File lawsuits in favorable jurisdictions with sympathetic judges (e.g., 9th Circuit or D.C. District Courts) to secure preliminary injunctions that can stall enforcement nationwide.

Weaponize State Power: Use Democrat-led states and cities as “legal resistance hubs” to pass counter-legislation and initiate legal action against federal agencies.

Leverage Bureaucrats: Eisen advocated empowering sympathetic bureaucrats within agencies to resist, leak, delay, and help coordinate legal challenges from the inside.

Narrative Warfare: Combine legal action with coordinated media campaigns, think tank reports, and NGO statements to delegitimize federal policy in the public eye.

Through his work at CREW and Brookings, Eisen built an ecosystem of litigation, influence, and messaging. His network overlapped with other powerful Democratic legal players—most notably Marc Elias, the election lawyer behind much of the left’s redistricting and voting access litigation.

All the NGO’s suing Trump use Eisen’s strategy—suing early and often, shopping for friendly judges, and building a media narrative that frames everything as racist, unconstitutional, or authoritarian.

His playbook, now embraced across the Democratic ecosystem, reshaped how political battles are fought. It elevated civil litigation into a tool of partisan warfare, turning the judiciary into a quasi-legislative body and undermining democratic separation of powers.

The resistance never stopped. It just moved from the streets to the courts—where Norm Eisen’s playbook remains the manual for lawfare in the 21st century.

===Insurrection Barbie