Attorney Abbe Lowell stood beside John Bolton in a federal courthouse in Maryland on last week as Donald Trump’s former national security adviser pleaded not guilty to charges of mishandling classified information.
Three days later, Lowell was at a federal appeals court in Philadelphia arguing that President Trump’s choice of US attorney for New Jersey is unlawful. And on Friday, Lowell will be beside New York Attorney General Letitia James in Norfolk, Virginia, as she is arraigned on federal charges of bank fraud and making false statements to a financial institution. James has called the charges “baseless.”
Lowell has for decades been a moth to the flame of Washington politics and scandal. He built his reputation by getting politicians out of legal trouble or advocating pointedly before television cameras to try to sway public opinion and influence prosecutors’ decision making.
Now, at 73, Lowell is one of the most prominent faces defending many of Trump’s perceived enemies in criminal investigations, security clearance revocations, and other matters.
“He’s a lawyers’ lawyer in that the politics aren’t what motivates the case,” said Mark Zaid, a high-profile Washington, DC, lawyer who represents whistleblowers.
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