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TRUMPs REVENGE -Targets Law Firms Who Represented His Enemies Inc. Jack Smith
TRUMP Targets AT LEAST 15 Law Firms Who Represented His Enemies OR Took Action Against Him Including Jack Smith
Trump is Also Targeting Security Clearances of Law Firms Over Actions Related to 2016 Russia Investigation
The sanctions are the latest in a series of retributive moves by Trump targeting a broad cross-section of perceived adversaries, including Justice Department prosecutors, career intelligence officials and most recently private practice attorneys.
AP 11 MAR 2025
Trump expands retribution against lawyers who aided his foes
Taken together, the actions appear designed not only to settle scores from years past but also to deter both government officials and private sector workers from participating in new inquiries into his conduct.
Trump is waging a war against the legal community in the United States with a target list growing by the day.
Thus far, President Donald Trump has issued executive orders that have targeted two law firms representing his perceived enemies, and his administration has attacked firms and law schools it says may be violating presidential initiatives against diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.
Trump said Thursday he was moving to suspend the security clearances of attorneys at a prominent law firm linked to Democratic-funded opposition research during the 2016 presidential campaign into ties between the Republican candidate and Russia.
The executive order Trump signed restricting Perkins Coies access to classified information and federal buildings and thus hurting its ability to work for some clients is sending shockwaves through the legal establishment nationwide.
We've never seen a president put out a specific order about a law firm, Ellen Podgor, a Stetson University law professor and legal ethicist, told CNN.
You're taking away the ability of an attorney to act in their role as a lawyer, Podgor added. The order to me is depriving our whole right to counsel. This is a major amendment to our Constitution.
The White House retaliation has been boldly a political response aimed at a group of lawyers and businesses that are known very little in public life outside of Washington. But the implications may be profound, with Trump?s administration positioning itself in direct opposition to major institutions, using its power to quell the work of experienced and influential attorneys.
The moves also encroach on what the legal community views as a fundamental right for people needing lawyers to have the freedom to choose who represents them an ability even Trump had as a criminal defendant being prosecuted by the Justice Department.
This is an absolute honor to sign. What they've done is just terrible. Its weaponization you could say weaponization against a political opponent, and it should never be allowed to happen again, Trump said after being presented with the executive order at the Oval Office.
The executive order directs the attorney general, the director of national intelligence and other relevant agency heads to take steps consistent with applicable law to suspend any active security clearances held by individuals at Perkins Coie, pending a review of whether such clearances are consistent with the national interest.
It does not say how many lawyers at the law firm which did not immediately respond to a written request for comment, might have such a clearance.
A spokesperson for the firm said: We have reviewed the Executive Order. It is patently unlawful, and we intend to challenge it.
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