President Trump has endorsed a new book from former Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo. As former Attorney General for Missouri, Schmitt engaged in legal battles against the Biden administration over some of the most crucial issues related to personal freedom.
Schmitt’s new book, “The Last Line of Defense: How to Beat the Left in Court,” documents some of those battles and lays out a plan for conservative victories. Trump enthusiastically praised the book in a Truth Social post on Tuesday.
“My good friend, Eric Schmitt, former Attorney General, and now Senator, from the GREAT State of Missouri, has a wonderful new Book just out, entitled, “THE LAST LINE OF DEFENSE: HOW TO BEAT THE LEFT IN COURT.” Eric is a FIGHTER, who beat back Biden’s disastrous Policies as A.G. and, in the U.S. Senate, has been working hard to defend our America First Agenda from the Radical Left,” Trump said.
Sen. Schmitt spoke with Fox News and described his experience as Attorney General as a fight to restore individual liberties and combat government overreach. Schmitt contrasted this form of conservative lawfare with the left-wing legal agenda of using the legal system to target political enemies.
The book covers Schmitt’s legal battles over consequential issues such as mask and vaccine mandates, open borders, freedom of speech, the right to challenge woke ideology in schools and the weaponization of government agencies. Schmitt described the approach of the left in dealing with these issues as an attempt to defend the expanse of government power and to weaponize the legal system to silence dissent.
Schmitt encouraged conservative lawyers to embrace the legal system and hoped his book would provide a map for how to move forward. “We have to have the willingness in ways we haven’t done before to use the courts to fight back,” Schmitt said. “For me, Covid was very much an inflection point.”
“That’s what this book is about, to say here’s what the landscape looks like, we can win, we have to have the courage to fight,” Schmitt said. “Because they will come with something new, whether it’s Covid or something else. The reason for the book is to say, here’s what we did, here’s how we won, and this has got to be the playbook for conservatives moving forward.”