Posted on 04/15/2025 4:14:40 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
It’s the latest setback to the president’s efforts to wield government power to punish the legal industry. A federal judge called it “a shocking abuse of power.”
A federal judge on Tuesday blocked President Trump from punishing the law firm Susman Godfrey, calling the retribution campaign he has waged from the White House against the nation’s top firms “a shocking abuse of power.”
Ruling from the bench, Judge Loren L. AliKhan of the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia said that the executive order Mr. Trump signed last week targeting the firm stemmed from a “personal vendetta.” Susman Godfrey represented Dominion, a manufacturer of voting machines that lawyers allied with Mr. Trump falsely attacked when he lost the 2020 election; the firm helped Dominion secure a $787.5 million settlement in a defamation case against Fox News.
The judge’s decision temporarily blocks the Trump administration from carrying out many of the order’s punishments, including one directing agencies to turn the firm’s lawyers away from federal buildings and another aimed at terminating any federal contracts Susman Godfrey holds.
It is the latest legal setback for Mr. Trump in his efforts to cripple firms he has accused of helping “weaponize” the justice system against him. The president’s actions have split the legal elite, with some high-powered firms bowing to pressure from the White House and offering hundreds of millions of dollars worth of pro bono work on issues Mr. Trump supports. Others, like Susman Godfrey, have opted to fight back.
In a statement after the decision, the firm said it was “duty bound” to push back given the stakes involved.
“This fight is bigger and...
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honey , you aint got squat.
no authority over POTUS what so eva.
youre a legend on your own mind.
Shocking abuse of power. Mirror mirror!
Judge AliKahn!!!! ANOTHER FREAKING FOREIGN BORN JUDGE!!!! WTH is going on???
Ignore this Biden appointed judge. She’s out of her lane.
Crazy eyes
Another criminal judge heard from.
Just think if the Supreme Court had a spine meaning Roberts and Barrett, we the PEOPLE would not be going through the crap. It is disgusting. will Congress do their job???? I am not holding my breath
Russia and China just launched a Nuclear missile attack against the US but Trump has to wait for a judge to tell him if it’s OK to respond , D’oh
RE: Crazy eyes.
Yes. Is it their thyroids, their schizophrenia or just something bad in their drinking water? 👀👀👀👀
Add to our list of Schiff, Hillary, AOC and the others.
The judge is abusing her power.
Years ago I used to disagree, silently, with a FReeper who posted “nothing will improve based on our reliance on the ballot box.”
Now I see how working within the system of “justice” is a childish and naive pursuit like hoping Santa will bring us something we want.
I still admire Trump and his people for at least trying to get some good out of the system.
She cannot compel security clearances, nor insist that this law firm be given business. Some random 41 year old female judge doesn’t know these things.
Too young.
Do we need to ask who appointed her?
And no semis barreling down the highway at 80.
Well Chuck admitted they stacked the courts with these judges to do exactly what they’re doing
A couple of pundits said “the Supreme Court may be sensing the American people are about to abandon respect for the system if the lower judges can run everything they want.”
Oh, so true.
But that train left the station for most of us a long time ago. Barry Manilow and the Carpenters were on the train station sound system when we departed.
A president who has had to endure falsely-charged impeachments, censorship and media fakery, so many cases of corrupt and weaponized lawfare, solid-blue NY and DC juries, completely biased prosecutors, conflicted, corrupt judges, and multiple assassination attempts likely aided by government officials is further cudgeled by the NYT as if he may not even to make an allegation against those who participated—based on voluminous public evidence against them—in the legal onslaught against him.
The nation’s top law enforcement officer gives PDJT her best advice, based on the country’s best law enforcement and legal information, as she reports to him.
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