Criminal defense of lawfare victims

The page describes the support as legal aid: help for people who cannot afford representation or access to court. It says lawfare is the use of legal systems and institutions to damage or delegitimize an opponent, or to deter someone from using their legal rights. It gives examples that include strategic lawsuits against public participation, public-relations victories, and officials labeling civil society or individuals to discourage them from claiming legal rights.

It says a lawfare victim, in the page’s usage, is someone targeted for prosecution, libel, slander, or defamation because of criticism of the government. It says gifts for this criminal defense are aimed at prosecutions of political opponents, including critics of the federal government, state government, and public schools, and it points to the 2016, 2020, and 2024 elections as examples on the live page.

See also counterlawfare defamation, which the public site describes as the civil-defamation counterpart.