By Peter Navarro | The Daily Caller | April 9, 2026
Laura Loomer has taken so many scalps in Washington that she now seems to think she is judge, jury, and executioner. But what happens when she goes after exactly the wrong man?
Loomer is now using X to carpet-bomb Stanley Woodward, the No. 3 lawyer at the Department of Justice, because she wants him fired. Talk about a misfire.
Woodward is one of the very few lawyers in the D.C. swamp who actually fought for President Trump when Joe Biden’s weaponized lawfare machine was trying to put the greatest president in modern history behind bars for more than 700 years.
At great cost to his own career, Woodward also represented some of the president’s most trusted advisers—Dan Scavino, Walt Nauta, Kash Patel, Brian Jack, and others in Trump’s orbit. He even fought for many January 6 defendants while the white-shoe firms shut their doors and the legal establishment looked the other way.
For that temerity, Woodward will never be welcomed into the oak-paneled billing machines of the big firms. He has even been warned that taking these cases likely cost him any path to the bench.
These facts matter. Because in the age of lawfare, the lawyer is not just a lawyer. He is the trench line. He is the shield wall. He is the last barrier on the ramparts between a citizen and a government that has already decided the process is the punishment.
That is what Stanley Woodward was for Trump world in its darkest hours.
Not a cable-news peacock. Not a fair-weather friend. Not some Beltway parasite doing makeup-room hits and preening for applause. Not some social-media queen cashing in on short attention spans and a thirst for blood.
He was a real lawyer in the arena, where the subpoenas flew, the contempt traps were set, and the full coercive power of the federal government came down on anyone who would not bend the knee.