Posted on 04/12/2025 1:32:50 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/trump-administration-faces-lawsuit-law-firm-that-secured/
The law firm Susman Godfrey LLP—the same firm that secured a staggering $787.5 million defamation settlement from Fox News on behalf of Dominion Voting Systems—is now suing President Trump and nearly every major federal agency in a brazen effort to overturn a recent executive order targeting the firm for its politicized legal activism.
Susman Godfrey, a Houston-based firm of leftist legal elites, filed a 66-page lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, hysterically claiming that President Trump’s Executive Order targeting their firm is an unconstitutional “retaliation” for their work defending the “integrity” of the 2020 election.
The complaint alleges violations of the First and Fifth Amendments, as well as separation-of-powers principles.
“The President is abusing the powers of his office to wield the might of the Executive Branch in retaliation against organizations and people that he dislikes,” according to the filing.
“Nothing in our Constitution or laws grants a President such power; to the contrary, the specific provisions and overall design of our Constitution were adopted in large measure to ensure that presidents cannot exercise arbitrary, absolute power in the way that the President seeks to do in these Executive Orders.”
More on the filing reviewed by The Gateway Pundit:
The Executive Order makes no secret of its unconstitutional retaliatory and discriminatory intent to punish Susman Godfrey for its work defending the integrity of the 2020 presidential election.
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The President is engaged in an unprecedented and unconstitutional assault on those bedrock principles and on the independent bar. In recent weeks, the President has issued multiple executive orders targeting law firms and their employees in an express campaign of retaliation for representing clients and causes he disfavors or employing lawyers he dislikes.
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Interesting case. Fox News lost the defamation charge.
“claiming that President Trump’s Executive Order targeting their firm is an unconstitutional “retaliation” for their work defending the “integrity” of the 2020 election.”
The only thing they defend is vote fraud. And the deepstate running Fox news made some kind of deal to re compensated behind the scenes. They did not even attempt to fight.
Did Fox lose or did Murdock donate the shareholders monies?
“...Nothing in our Constitution or laws grants a President such power...”
The quisling puppet Joe Biden would call Trump a piker. Where was this “law” firm when Biden was abusing his office?
Trump should tell them to talk to the hand (the one that’s used for wiping ass). /spit
Good... This gives Trump full government investigation resources towards discovery and exposure. They may have put themselves in a trap and Pandora’s box will be opened. There won’t be anything they can hide from these kind of resources.
Bring it on dummies...
They didn't even fight it. In all likelihood they got the "settlement" laundered back to them. FOX wanted to help feed the narrative that the election had not been stolen.
FOX is not on our side.
So would Trump be on the hook for the $787B, or the United States?
I think they had settled out of court.
They jettisoned Lou Dobbs and Tucker Carlson shortly after.
Those leading fox news knew that if they pretended to lose this case then this case could touted by the left as an example of how great dominion is. Also they get to use it as an example against “Election deniers”. They get to say the election was on the up and up. And the left gets to frighten the heck out anyone who might dare to speak up about corrupt elections and the players in that corruption.
The leaders of Fox news get all of that by simply rolling over and not fighting the lawsuit. On top of that you can bet that a secret deal was made for them to receive financial compensation behind the scenes in some form. Fox has gotten their money back. They essentially paid themselves.
And it is not hard to figure out all of this if you keep in mind that the left operates by deception. Think of the most deceptive thing that the left can do. And then you have mostly likely figured out what they are doing.
This Law Firm and FoxNews thought they had snookered everyone by the false Defamation Lawsuit and FoxNews falsely admitting guilt.
They didn’t count on President Trump unraveling their game!
No, they advanced the rights of their client. The emails from the Fox hosts were damning.
You know this country is really “F”d up when Shyster Lawyers start suing their clients.
Did they lose it or settle?
I thought they settled.
How much discovery is going to be allowed in discovery this time around?
$787.5 million can finance a lot of stupid lawsuits, but they will lose.
Trump is not Fox News.
Settled for some strange reason.
Trump DOJ will NOT settle.
Neither. The $787B was between Fox and Dominion, I bleeve.
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