Judges block Trump orders targeting 2 law firms
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“The Order threatens not only Jenner, but also its clients and the legal system itself,” lawyers for Jenner & Block wrote in a brief accompanying their 64-page suit.
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Trump’s campaign against the major law firms has tested the guardrails of the Constitution as much as any other action since Inauguration Day.
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Two U.S. judges backed Jenner & Block and WilmerHale on Friday as the prominent law firms challenged the Republican president in court.
Two federal judges temporarily blocked President Trump’s executive orders targeting two major law firms, Jenner & Block and WilmerHale, on Friday. The orders come as the Trump administration
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Jenner & Block on Tuesday became the latest Big Law firm to be targeted by the Trump Administration.
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President Donald Trump issued an executive order Tuesday targeting Chicago law firm Jenner & Block. The firm also has an office in Washington, D.C.
A DC federal judge on Friday temporarily barred the Trump administration from enforcing an executive order targeting law firm Jenner & Block.
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Skadden Arps, the world’s fifth largest law firm, capitulated to Trump while two smaller firms obtained temporary restraining orders against his fascistic executive decrees.
A couple weeks after a federal judge blocked a similar order targeting Perkins Cole, two more firms filed separate suits seeking to prevent President Donald Trump from punishing them for past investigations.
The suit, filed in a Washington, D.C., federal court, alleges the administration engaged in unconstitutional retaliation that violates the First Amendment.
President Donald Trump expanded his attacks on major U.S. law firms on Tuesday as he signed an executive order targeting Jenner & Block, which represents clients challenging some of his major policies and formerly employed a prosecutor involved in a special counsel investigation of his 2016 campaign.