Posted on 04/02/2025 7:16:37 AM PDT by MtnClimber
President Trump has been issuing executive orders aimed at law firms that employed key figures in the Russiagate saga. Now, federal judges have blocked many of Trump's efforts, some calling it retribution for the lawfare waged against him by the previous administration.
Multiple judges have blocked efforts by President Donald Trump to hold “Big Law” firms accountable for their connections to lawyers closely tied to the Russia collusion hoax.
The executive orders make allegations against some of the most powerful law firms in the nation: the WilmerHale law firm for previously employing former Special Counsel Robert Mueller and two of his top prosecutors; against Jenner & Block in part for previously employing top Mueller prosecutor Andrew Weissmann; and against Perkins Coie in large part for previously employing Democratic-party-aligned election lawyer Marc Elias, for helping Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign fund British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s debunked anti-Trump dossier.
Elias, who worked at Perkins for many years as the chair of the Political Law Group, went on to serve also as the general counsel for now-former Vice President Kamala Harris’s failed 2020 presidential bid. Perkins announced in 2021 that Elias and others were leaving to form Elias Law Group.
Judges have blocked significant portions of Trump’s executive orders aimed at each of those firms, although the Paul Weiss law firm — targeted by Trump in part for employing former Mueller prosecutor Jeannie Rhee — acquiesced to Trump’s demands, with Trump announcing last week that the firm would now be "taking on a wide range of pro bono matters representing the full political spectrum; committing to merit-based hiring, promotion, and retention, instead of 'diversity, equity, and inclusion' policies; [and] dedicating the equivalent of $40 million in pro bono legal services during my term in office to support causes including assisting our Nation’s veterans, fairness in the justice system, and combating anti-Semitism."
Trump has used similar language in multiple executive orders addressing the "significant risks” posed by so-called “Big Law” firms which “engage in conduct detrimental to critical American interests.”
“Many firms take actions that threaten public safety and national security, limit constitutional freedoms, degrade the quality of American elections, or undermine bedrock American principles,” Trump said in these executive orders. “Moreover, law firms regularly conduct this harmful activity through their powerful pro bono practices, earmarking hundreds of millions of their clients’ dollars for destructive causes, that often directly or indirectly harm their own clients. Lawyers and law firms that engage in such egregious conduct should not have access to our Nation’s secrets, nor should such conduct be subsidized by Federal taxpayer funds or contracts.”...SNIP
Trump’s mission on this is complete regardless of the injunction. Of the 1500 federal bureaucrats that have the authority to hire outside lawyers (educated guess) how many do you think will be selecting Perkins Coie or Skadden Arps?
DIRTY CORRUPT JUDGES!
Too bad, security clearances are not subject to judicial review.
Time for congress to get off their collectively lazy a** and start putting Trumps executive orders into law.
Not to mention that’s an interesting sales technique. I’m going to sue you to force you to hire me to do work for you?
Just limit their billing rate to $59/hr.
In what perverted universe is this a defense?
Are the EO’s the ones that Trump used to remove security clearances? What do those legal firms have security clearances to begin with?
Oh I get it now. Whenever criminals are brought to justice for hoax crimes, it’s called “retribution”. How clever.
+1
I can’t wait until lawyer jobs are automated...
Like a Robo-attorney?
Actually they are subject to judicial review. Pulling someone’s clearance has to be reasonable and non-retaliatory - yeah, where’s justice for whistleblowers these days.
It appears that DOGE needs to start investigating the Executive Branch of government. Obviously, the idiots living in the U.S. prefer to be lead by foreign fascists in black robes posing as the all-powerful, supreme “district court judges”. The Executive Branch has become a giant waste of money. FOX just mentioned a “poll” in which the majority of idiot respondents have decided President Trump should obey the orders of “district” chimpanzee “judges”.
“WE DID NOT VOTE FOR THESE JUDGES”
Well, it is obvious now. ALL of the Federal government considers us to be their slaves. We haven’t had a Republic for 40 years or more.
These ARE the ringleaders of the continuing attempted coup of the United States and the de facto Federal judges attempts to block Trump's orders. These law firms are directing that effort through personal/private relationships with the Federal Judges. The very fact that certain lawyers would resign once being discovered means they WERE involved in the weaponization of government against those with whom THEY disagreed.
These lawyers and these judges should all be in Gitmo. They stole my President’s first term, they stole his second term, and now they are trying to steal his third term.
Judge Amy Totenburg ruled that voters have no standing to ensure that their votes and their election are not tampered with. I say let’s put together a class-action RICO lawsuit against all these crooks and file it in the most patriotic court in the country, wherever that might be. Let’s get the Dennis Montgomery files as discovery materials, as well as all the NSA records, tax records, etc and make the connections between James Clapper, John Brennan, all the Crossfire Hurricane people, all the media people, all the Jack Smith, Letitia James, and all the Fani Lewis people, all the Merchans, Engorans, Howells, etc, the Clintons, Obamas, CIA, Podestas, Alafentises, P. Diddy...
At the end of it let’s throw the whole stinking lot of them onto Alcatraz.
The Alcatraz Retreat
What a surprise, activist judges protecting activist lawyers.
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