Posted on 03/06/2025 8:53:54 PM PST by Morgana
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:
Section 1. Purpose. The dishonest and dangerous activity of the law firm Perkins Coie LLP (“Perkins Coie”) has affected this country for decades. Notably, in 2016 while representing failed Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, Perkins Coie hired Fusion GPS, which then manufactured a false “dossier” designed to steal an election. This egregious activity is part of a pattern. Perkins Coie has worked with activist donors including George Soros to judicially overturn popular, necessary, and democratically enacted election laws, including those requiring voter identification. In one such case, a court was forced to sanction Perkins Coie attorneys for an unethical lack of candor before the court.
In addition to undermining democratic elections, the integrity of our courts, and honest law enforcement, Perkins Coie racially discriminates against its own attorneys and staff, and against applicants. Perkins Coie publicly announced percentage quotas in 2019 for hiring and promotion on the basis of race and other categories prohibited by civil rights laws. It proudly excluded applicants on the basis of race for its fellowships, and it maintained these discriminatory practices until applicants harmed by them finally sued to enforce change.
My Administration is committed to ending discrimination under “diversity, equity, and inclusion” policies and ensuring that Federal benefits support the laws and policies of the United States, including those laws and policies promoting our national security and respecting the democratic process. Those who engage in blatant race-based and sex-based discrimination, including quotas, but purposefully hide the nature of such discrimination through deceiving language, have engaged in a serious violation of the public trust. Their disrespect for the bedrock principle of equality represents good cause to conclude that they neither have access to our Nation’s secrets nor be deemed responsible stewards of any Federal funds.
Sec. 2. Security Clearance Review. (a) The Attorney General, the Director of National Intelligence, and all other relevant heads of executive departments and agencies (agencies) shall immediately 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.
(b) The Office of Management and Budget shall identify all Government goods, property, material, and services, including Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities, provided for the benefit of Perkins Coie. The heads of all agencies providing such material or services shall, to the extent permitted by law, expeditiously cease such provision.
Sec. 3. Contracting. (a) To prevent the transfer of taxpayer dollars to Federal contractors whose earnings subsidize, among other things, racial discrimination, falsified documents designed to weaponize the Government against candidates for office, and anti-democratic election changes that invite fraud and distrust, Government contracting agencies shall, to the extent permissible by law, require Government contractors to disclose any business they do with Perkins Coie and whether that business is related to the subject of the Government contract.
(b) The heads of all agencies shall review all contracts with Perkins Coie or with entities that disclose doing business with Perkins Coie under subsection (a) of this section. To the extent permitted by law, the heads of agencies shall:
(i) take appropriate steps to terminate any contract, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, including the Federal Acquisition Regulation, for which Perkins Coie has been hired to perform any service;
(ii) otherwise align their agency funding decisions with the interests of the citizens of the United States; with the goals and priorities of my Administration as expressed in executive actions, especially Executive Order 14147 of January 20, 2025 (Ending the Weaponization of the Federal Government); and as heads of agencies deem appropriate. Within 30 days of the date of this order, all agencies shall submit to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget an assessment of contracts with Perkins Coie or with entities that do business with Perkins Coie effective as of the date of this order and any actions taken with respect to those contracts in accordance with this order.
Sec. 4. Racial Discrimination. (a) The Chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission shall review the practices of representative large, influential, or industry leading law firms for consistency with Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, including whether large law firms: reserve certain positions, such as summer associate spots, for individuals of preferred races; promote individuals on a discriminatory basis; permit client access on a discriminatory basis; or provide access to events, trainings, or travel on a discriminatory basis.
(b) The Attorney General, in coordination with the Chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and in consultation with State Attorneys General as appropriate, shall investigate the practices of large law firms as described in subsection (a) of this section who do business with Federal entities for compliance with race-based and sex-based non-discrimination laws and take any additional actions the Attorney General deems appropriate in light of the evidence uncovered.
Sec. 5. Personnel. (a) The heads of all agencies shall, to the extent permitted by law, provide guidance limiting official access from Federal Government buildings to employees of Perkins Coie when such access would threaten the national security of or otherwise be inconsistent with the interests of the United States. In addition, the heads of all agencies shall provide guidance limiting Government employees acting in their official capacity from engaging with Perkins Coie employees to ensure consistency with the national security and other interests of the United States.
(b) Agency officials shall, to the extent permitted by law, refrain from hiring employees of Perkins Coie, absent a waiver from the head of the agency, made in consultation with the Director of the Office of Personnel Management, that such hire will not threaten the national security of the United States.
Sec. 6. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or
(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.
(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.
DONALD J. TRUMP
THE WHITE HOUSE, March 6, 2025.
Ping. Looking forward to the comments!
Good.
Perkins Coie is the ‘real world’ analogue of the Buffy The Vampire slayer / Angel tv fantasy universe of “Wolfram & Hart”. Nothing but evil in service to evil.
This is a death sentence for them. A very well deserved death sentence.
They struck at the king and missed.
Now it’s time for payback.
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Okay. I will just come out and admit that I don’t understand this Executive Order. There’s a lot to be swallowed here. If you are going to be passing out Dunce Hats, I wear a Size 7.
The 2nd democrap lawfirm to get this. And rightfully so.
It strips all the firms lawyers any all clearances, it removes the firm from all government work.
It does a bit more but those 2 are the big ones. It will finically cripple the law firm and make them unable to even consult an anything with a gov contract, or legal issue in court for anything associate with the government.
No def contract work, no black box work, no labor disputes for confidential work, cannot represent anyone against the gov if a clearance is required to review the evidence etc.
What this EO seems to suggest is, ANY. Contractor that uses Perkins Coie as their legal firm, will lose their government contract - hundreds of companies will be dropping P.C. tomorrow if true
Note that a suspension means a review of whether an individual should retain a clearance. The review may result in a reinstatement of clearance. But if the result is a revocation, it is usually permanent.
Alright. Thanks for the summary. I suspect the average person has never even thought about looking that deeply into how our government gets projects done, or pretends to.
I’m glad Trump and company are performing the due diligence.
Toes will be stepped upon. Improperly feather-bedded retirement plans will be called out/ snuffed out.
I have a child who is a lawyer for another firm and they have secret clearances for work with such projects.
And yes most people have no idea but there are labor disputes on those secret projects sometimes and they need lawyers to work it out.
Trump had four long years to really, REALLY think about how The Great Voter Fraud of 2020 could have happened.
That, and other acts of partisan obstruction.
He figured out the system, of what begets what in Washington.
**I’ve been waiting for the name of John Kerry to be brought up. During Trump’s first term, Kerry made it his business to fly into any part of the world, and try to undo whatever the Trump Administration was trying to do. I hope Kerry doesn’t get a pass from all this. No one seems to enforce the Logan Act anymore, though. Nancy Pelosi also violated that law or policy during the Bush years. Nothing happened to her at all.
ping
I think P-C were the ones filing multiple frivolous lawsuits against Gov Palin after she returned to Alaska to force her to resign or else go totally broke defending herself.
I hope you’re right and they have just gotten what they deserved.
Bfl
I’m sure they will probably still find work ... in traffic court.
A reminder from Sundance at Conservative Treehouse about the Clinton/Perkins Coie conspiracy against President Trump.
“President Trump Removes Perkins Coie Security Clearance:
It effectively means that any business that requires a security clearance they can’t be involved & the companies trying to get the federal govt business requiring security clearances stands to lose that business if they engage with them.
What about subcontractors with security clearances?
The closest thing to that is Section 3-b and it seems to refer to direct contracts with the Feds.
It looks like there’s a loophole allowing P&C to hire “independent firms” to access deep state records.
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