senior counsel
The former civil rights lawyer leading the Trump administration’s fight against antisemitism
Leo Terrell is now senior counsel to Trump’s assistant attorney general for civil rights

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Attorney Leo Terrell, representing the family of Margaret Mitchell, a homeless women who was shot and killed after threatening officers with a screwdriver in May, 1999, gestures during a forum held by the Congressional Black Caucus Monday, Aug. 30, 1999, in downtown Los Angeles.
On the third day that President Donald Trump was back in office, former Fox News contributor Leo Terrell woke up and signed onto X. The civil rights lawyer and former-Democrat-turned-Trump-acolyte spent the morning in a very Trump-like manner: governing...