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Judges block Trump orders targeting firms tied to Russia collusion hoax figures
Just the News ^ | 1 Apr, 2025 | Jerry Dunleavy

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


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KEYWORDS: article2; interference; jennerblock; judgewatch; judicialmisconduct; judicialsedition; lawfare; markelias; nationalsecurity; noauthority; nojurisdiction; obstruction; paulweiss; perkinscoie; sedition; stoogewatch; undermining; unlawfulorders
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To: MtnClimber

Ignore every single one of these orders.

Dynamite Roberts off his dead ass.

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41 posted on 04/02/2025 10:38:46 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: AndyJackson

Nope. You cannot sue over a lost security clearance. There is an internal administrative appeals process, but no ability to go to court. This is a plenary power and the President is the final say as to whether or not you retain a clearance.

No judge can order a clearance be restored, OR that one be granted.

A famous example is the Oppenheimer hearing. He had no standing to take it beyond that hearing. And that hearing board could have been overruled either way by a president.


42 posted on 04/02/2025 4:49:30 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI...)
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To: alancarp

I don’t even think it’s retribution. They lied, helped create the false Russia Dossier, they advanced numerous demonstrable lies and crimes. They deliberately deeply harmed our national security in the name of their political friends.

They lost their clearance due to demonstrated dishonesty and improper use of access to classified materials.


43 posted on 04/02/2025 4:52:39 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI...)
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