It was reported on Wednesday that John Lauro, current attorney to Donald Trump, was put on notice that he needed to be registered with the appellate bar before he could challenge a gag order imposed on the ex-president in his criminal case for alleged election subversion in DC. Now, legal experts are chiming in with their own thoughts.
Lauro said on Wednesday that it was a minor snag and that he planned to register for the appropriate bar, but that didn't stop lawyers of all stripes from commenting on the apparent mishap.
Former FBI general counsel Andrew Weissmann shared the letter from the D.C. circuit appeals court on social media with a one-word caption: "Embarrassing."
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Another lawyer, conservative attorney and anti-Trump activist George Conway, replied in the comments with one word of his own.
"Astounding," he wrote on Wednesday.
Another lawyer put a finer point on things:
"The sheer number of basic, procedural foul-ups by Trump's various lawyers, each, is just mind-boggling," TexaneseLawGuy wrote on Wednesday.
MSNBC legal contributor Katie Phang reacted to the news simply.
"Well, well, well…" she wrote as she posted the news of Lauro's troubles on her social media.
Tristan Snell, a former assistant attorney general in New York, added his take, as well:
"Trump’s lawyers aren’t admitted to practice before the DC Circuit. They tried anyway. They failed," he wrote Wednesday.
