The NY Times reports that despite the headlines?
Donald’s leaning on the Big law firms has NOT been a success….
Few firms have moved to make Trump happy….
Those who have has lost partners and other lawyers….
The pushback in the courts have also gone against Trump’s strong armed efforts…
And?
Do NOT HAVE defined plans of action cept what Trump has said on social media …’they have’….
Actually?
Trump and Co. haven’t done well in MOST court encounters… across the board…
The Trump administration is ordinarily quick to appeal its losses. When courts in recent weeks blocked President Trump’s tariff plans and his takeover of National Guard troops in California, government lawyers filed appeals within hours. The administration has also filed 19 emergency applications with the Supreme Court since the president took office.
But administration lawyers have done nothing to challenge a series of stinging rulings rejecting Mr. Trump’s efforts to punish prominent law firms for what he called “conduct detrimental to critical American interests” by representing clients and causes not to his liking.
The administration’s unconventional litigation strategy is telling, said W. Bradley Wendel, a law professor at Cornell who is an authority on legal ethics.
“They knew that these were losing positions from the beginning and were not actually hoping to win in court, but rather to intimidate firms into settling, as many firms did,” he said. “Now that they have racked up the four losses in district courts, it is not surprising that they are not appealing, because I don’t think they ever thought these were serious positions.”…
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Three rulings permanently blocked Mr. Trump’s executive orders in cases brought by law firms that chose to fight: Perkins Coie, Jenner & Block and WilmerHale. A judge has temporarily blocked a fourth executive order, against Susman Godfrey, and will almost certainly strike it down….
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Precisely what the firms that settled have agreed to do is a bit mysterious. Though the deals were struck by some of the most sophisticated lawyers in the nation, they do not appear to have taken the form of conventional contracts….
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The judges who have ruled on the executive orders said they were plainly unconstitutional. Just last year, they noted, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the First Amendment does not tolerate the use of government power to punish or suppress views the government disfavors….
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