The Federal Judges, who ARE Lawyers just did NOT entertain a convicted criminal , that happens to be the President, trying to beat DOWN law Firms….
There WAS several firms that buckled under Trump’s arm twisting…
The one’s that fought Trump?
They WON….
The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday deserted its defense of President Trump’s executive orders targeting several of the nation’s top law firms, court filings show.
The Trump administration abandoned its appeals of four rulings by federal judges that rebuffed the orders aimed at law firms Perkins Coie, WilmerHale, Jenner & Block and Susman Godfrey. Lawyers for the DOJ moved to voluntarily dismiss the appeals late Monday.
Trump’s orders sought to undercut each law firm’s business by limiting government contracts, in addition to employees’ security clearances and their access to government buildings.
The four firms claimed the directives were retribution for representing Trump’s political adversaries, as each had ties to opponents of the president….
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DOJ lawyers had argued that it’s within the president’s discretion to decide with whom to trust the nation’s secrets, contending that the orders were designed to assuage Trump’s concerns about the law firms.
But judges resoundingly rejected the government’s position, calling it designed to “chill legal representation the administration doesn’t like” and positing that upholding the order would be “unfaithful to the judgment and vision of the Founding Fathers.” …
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At least seven other firms agreed to provide tens of millions of dollars in pro bono work to the Trump administration. That was despite there being no executive orders issued against those firms; the threat of one was enough to bring them to the bargaining table. …
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“The Trump administration indicated on Tuesday that it planned to renew its defense of executive orders that it had leveled against law firms, a sharp reversal a day after indicating that it would drop that fight in court,” the New York Times reports.
“The situation remained fluid Tuesday morning. It was not immediately clear what legal strategy the administration would ultimately embrace or whether a court would allow the Justice Department to reverse course.”
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