Who Started the Lawfare Era? - by Matt Taibbi - Racket News

A new motion in an international court dispute draws in a wide range of political luminaries, from Canada's new Prime Minister to the head of Donald Trump's new "Weaponization Working Group"

This week, the storied Boies Schiller law firm filed a motion alleging widespread wrongdoing on the part of Brookfield Asset Management, a private equity titan chaired by Canada’s new Prime Minister Mark Carney until a few months ago...

• Technically, this is just a business litigation about a privatized toll road in Peru. 
• It’s become more than that. 

The case is now a key proxy conflict in the increasingly heated “lawfare” arena in which courts, police, and prosecutors are turned into political weaponry.

• Prior to 2025, status quo figures openly praised lawfare tactics and embraced everything from politicized prosecutions to ballot-blocking campaigns on the grounds that extreme measures may be needed to “save democracy” from the likes of Trump. 
• Lawfare in the context of Trump became a celebrated word, connoting “hard national security choices” an enlightened institutional vanguard might need to make to save us...