Monday, February 23, 2026

Conway and Comstock Are Funding Far-Left Campaign Targeting ICE Agents.

PULSE POINTS

❓WHAT HAPPENED: Corporate filings have uncovered a campaign by George Conway and Barbara Comstock funding anti-ICE posters urging agents to reveal their identities.

👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: George Conway, Barbara Comstock, Home of the Brave USA, Inc., U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem, and The National Pulse Editor-in-Chief Raheem Kassam.

📍WHEN & WHERE: Recent weeks, at locations including bus stops in Washington, D.C.

đź’¬KEY QUOTE: “It was just a couple of years ago, wasn’t it, that it was actually the political left screaming about putting masks on, and now there are signs saying take your masks off.” – Raheem Kassam

🎯IMPACT: The poster campaign increased safety concerns for ICE personnel, with potential for further violence against agents.

IN FULL

Corporate filings have revealed that George Conway and Barbara Comstock are key figures funding a far-left flyer campaign urging Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to “take off your masks” and face public scrutiny, despite the fact that this would open them to attacks.

The posters, funded by Home of the Brave USA, Inc., have appeared at bus stops and on buildings in Washington, D.C., with Raheem Kassam, Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse, noting in a recent video report, “It’s funny, it was just a couple of years ago, wasn’t it, that it was actually the political left screaming about putting masks on, and now there are signs saying take your masks off,” Kassam remarked, noting that ICE “have to remain masked a lot of the time for fear of reprisals simply for doing their jobs.”

Conway is a vocal critic of President Donald J. Trump and co-founded the Lincoln Project, alongside other Republicans-in-name-only (RINOs), such as predator John Weaver. Notably, Conway persuaded writer E. Jean Carroll to pursue President Trump over an alleged sexual assault decades ago, one of many attacks she claims to have been subjected to by at least eight men.

Comstock is a former Republican congresswoman and current Baker Donelson lobbyist, known for establishing the American Consumer & Investor Institute in 2023. The aforementioned filing highlights their involvement in the organization behind the anti-ICE poster campaign.

The effort to unmask ICE agents raises safety concerns, with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) noting doxxing incidents in Portland, Oregon, where anarchist groups exposed ICE officers’ personal information. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem has pledged to prosecute those involved, citing risks from gangs like MS-13 using such data to intimidate or even kill personnel involved in immigration enforcement efforts, as well as their families.

Notably, ICE and other federal law enforcement are already being targeted in increasingly violent attacks, with a sniper attack outside one ICE facility seeing a responding local police officer shot in the neck.

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The New York Times’s ‘Conservative’ Lawyers Aren’t Conservatives At All.

The New York Times is elevating a slate of ostensibly ‘conservative’ jurists as an alternative to the center-right Federalist Society. Writing in the Times, anti-Trump Republicans George Conway, Barbara Comstock, and J. Michael Luttig argue the Federalist Society has “…conspicuously declined to speak out against the constitutional and other legal excesses of Mr. Trump and his administration.”

In response the three are announcing the formation of a new legal non-profit, Society for the Rule of Law Institute, they say will “rebuild a conservative legal movement that supports and defends American democracy, the Constitution and the rule of law.” In reality, the new group has less to do with promoting conservative legal theory and more with lobbying and pro-corporate deregulation.

George Conway, the infamous ex-husband of Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway, is a former partner at Wachtell Lipton, a lobbying firm with deep ties in the defense and airline industries. His co-authors, Barbara Comstock – a lawyer and former anti-Trump Republican Congresswoman – and former U.S. Appeals Court Judge J. Michael Luttig both have close ties corporate interests as well. Comstock has lobbied on behalf of Carnival Cruise Corporation, the fin-tech industry, and serves as a senior advisor to the K Street firm Baker Donelson. J. Michael Luttig left his cushy judgeship for the lucrative job of general counsel for Boeing – a position he held from 2006 until 2019.

The legal scholars being promoted by the three anti-Trump lawyers and their new legal group have just as equally concerning corporate and political ties. Former federal appellate judge Michael McConnell, a legal scholar the group says is a “model for a new and more responsible conservative legal movement” clerked for Supreme Court Justice William Brennan who led the high court’s liberal-wing. McConnell, far from a conservative, holds a fairly hardline libertarian view of the law – often ruling against government attempts to regulate corporations – and was vocally critical of the Supreme Court’s Bush v. Gore decision.

Another former federal appellate judge named by the group, Thomas B. Griffith, has a long track-record of liberal legal decisions that led then Sens. Barack Obama and Joe Biden to support his 2005 nomination to the federal circuit court. At the time, the Washington Post praised Griffith’s nomination noting he is “widely respected by people in both parties.”

The last legal scholar the group names is Princeton political scientist Keith Whittington, another libertarian-leaning legal theorist who appears to be overly concerned with the issue government regulation of corporations. Whittington is an occasional guest writer at the libertarian legal blog, Volokh Conspiracy.

It appears the only ‘conservative legal tradition’ the new group founded by Conway, Comstock, and Luttig aims to reclaim is the tradition establishment Republicans passing off pro-corporate policies as foundational to conservative ideology.

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The New York Times is elevating a slate of ostensibly 'conservative' jurists as an alternative to the center-right Federalist Society. Writing in the Times, anti-Trump Republicans George Conway, Barbara Comstock, and J. Michael Luttig argue the Federalist Society has "...conspicuously declined to speak out against the constitutional and other legal excesses of Mr. Trump and his administration." show more