Posted on 03/24/2026 10:41:19 AM PDT by Regulator
Two weeks ago, Federal District Court Judge Beryl Howell permanently enjoined the Trump Administration from implementing the president’s executive order targeting the Perkins Coie law firm. Trump’s order suspended security clearances for the firm’s lawyers and barred them from federal buildings, prohibited the government from engaging the firm, and directed that it be investigated for violating civil rights laws.
The order explained that these restrictions were appropriate because of Perkins Coie’s “dishonest and dangerous activity,” including hiring Fusion GPS to manufacture a false dossier to “steal an election.” As counsel to Hillary Clinton, the firm worked with Fusion GPS to produce the Steele dossier, which was used for the Russia hoax that destabilized the first Trump Administration.
In her 120-page decision, Judge Howell, an Obama appointee, wrote a sweeping, fervent defense of the constitutionally protected rights of lawyers to give their clients candid advice and zealously represent them, regardless of the consequences. Though Judge Howell’s remedy was overreaching anti-Trump judicial activism, her underlying premise was correct. If the government can retaliate against lawyers because of the advice they give their clients, or what their clients choose to do after listening to that advice, Americans are not a free people. Yet, the foundational principles Judge Howell vigorously advances apparently do not apply to lawyers who give advice that offends progressive Democrats.
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"Throughout his career, former DOJ special counsel Jack Smith has pursued novel legal theories. As a result, his lower court victories have often been reversed, but he has not been indicted or disbarred. If Eastman had been a Democratic activist, there isn’t the remotest possibility he would have been charged or disbarred for presenting a range of legal theories to his client, with or without recommendations."
Eastman should be either the AG or the Solicitor General, the disgusting "disbarment" notwhithstanding. He would produce victory after victory in his pursuit of real justice against the Soviet apparatchik "judges" and "attorneys" that now pervade the so-called legal system.
Beryl Howell is corrupt as the day is long.
“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.”
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/addressing-risks-from-perkins-coie-llp/
Creating false documents to spread falsehoods would appear to go past lawyers legal functions. Running the printing press to counterfeit money comes to mind. I think any confident judge would rule that goes beyond the boundaries of what services a lawyer can provide their client!
Yup, she is one of the most corrupt of the leftist judges. In fact, she really isn’t a judge but is a democrat in a black robe.
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