The Washington Post talks Washington power lawyer and Hillary Clinton supporter Jamie Gorelick, one of DC's most prominent attorneys and big-time Democrat. Gorelick came to fame in defense of Richard Nixon's fight to control his White House Papers. It put Gorelick in the position of defending a person her friends loathed -- and very probably, Gorelick herself.

Not for the first time, Gorelick tells WaPo that she's shocked over the response among friends that she's representing Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump over their Washington woes. AOC covered the most public slap, coming from prominent Democratic strategist and lobbyist, who tweeted, "Hey Jamie Gorelick, you've just poured that 'Complicit' perfume on yourself."

“Representing Jared and Ivanka is a case of pushing the ethical envelope, helping a wealthy family on the brink of using the presidency to further enrich themselves,” said David Halperin, a speechwriter in the Clinton White House and former counsel to the Senate Intelligence Committee. “Gorelick is a Clinton supporter embracing the family that wanted to put Hillary Clinton in jail. People in Washington are all too willing to forgive that.”

Gorelick continues to work pro bono on liberal causes, representing the Tahirih Justice Center, a nonprofit that serves immigrant women felling from violence. The client prompted her to challenge recently the Trump administration's plan to strip local governments from declaring themselves 'sanctuary cities' for illegan immigrans.

“I sent the brief to Ivanka and Jared just so they would know, this is what your lawyer is doing,” Gorelick said.

Her clients were fine with the division between what Gorelick does in her day job and what she does as a political activist. Some of her friends, not so much. And that, Gorelick said, “has been hurtful. I’m not an advocate for the Trump administration; I take hard cases.”

Wapo writes that the situation is complex in Washington right now. "Holland & Knight, one of the city’s largest firms, lost the head of its media practice group, Charles Tobin, when he jumped last week to another firm after 16 years because, he said, “I was told in no uncertain terms that I could not sue this president.” As an attorney who represents media clients in conflicts with the government, Tobin said he could no longer work at a firm that “wanted to be in a position to help clients do business with the Trump administration and thought that being in an adversarial position with this president would hinder that ability.”'

Tobin, who will now co-chair the media practice at Ballard Spahr, said Holland & Knight had no such concerns about previous presidents. “I sued President Obama, I sued President Bush, I represented journalists against other administrations without any problem,” he said.

All over America, the two camps are deeply divided and building moats around themselves. Just this morning, NBC's Meghan Kelly is facing massive criticism and demands that her scheduled June 18 interview with Infowars' Alex Jones not be aired. Giving Jones a mic to broadcast his theory that Sandy Hook never happened has driven the families, supported by people like Chelsea Clinton, into understandable apoplexy.

The increasing demands for censorship rather than taking the lid off conspiracy theories is a challenge for all thinking people.