Lawfare is a portmanteau, or the clever combination of two words -- law and warfare -- to form the new word.
More about lawfare in this book: https://cosmotheistchurch.org/product/p ... -williams/ or read about how the misnamed Southern Poverty Law Center and other Jewish hate groups used lawfare in their mission to "destroy the National Alliance": https://nationalvanguard.org/2016/07/im ... l-fortune/Lawfare is the abuse of the law by a group against its enemy, either by challenging the legality of its actions or by deterring its opponent from exercising its legal rights -- to weaken and discredit the individual opponent by filing lawsuits wasting his time and resources [think defendant Trump's current legal issues].