Mini-Post: Vindictive!

Abuse of power! But what else do you expect from Trump?

Trump is attacking legal firms that represented clients on Trump hit list. Those he feel wronged him.

Trump expands retribution campaign against law firms that aided his foes

Trump hit another major law firm that worked for his political rivals with an executive order seeking to limit its ability to work for the U.S. government.

The Washington Post

By Perry Stein and Michael Birnbaum

March 6, 2025

President Donald Trump on Thursday targeted another elite law firm that has represented clients he considers his political enemies, sending a forceful message that he is willing to punish firms who work for people or groups that oppose his administration’s agenda.

In an Oval Office ceremony, the president signed an executive order hitting the large international law firm Perkins Coie with a sweeping directive that bans the federal government from hiring it, or from using contractors who work with it, except in limited circumstances. The order also bars Perkins Coie employees from entering federal buildings and suspends their security clearances.

The firm represented Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee during the 2016 presidential race, and it also contracted with the research firm that produced the now-discredited opposition dossier that alleged extensive contacts between Trump and Russia.

The move could have a chilling effect on law firms’ willingness to take on clients and cases that run counter to the Trump administration, challenging a fundamental tenet of the rule of law in the United States that everyone should have access to legal representation, experts said.

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Perkins Coie is the second law firm Trump has taken action against or decried as engaging “in the weaponization of the judicial process.”

Last week, he ordered the suspension of security clearances of some attorneys at Covington & Burling, which has represented special counsel Jack Smith pro bono. Smith led the federal investigations of Trump for allegedly mishandling classified materials and trying to block the 2020 election results.

Capricious and arbitrary! And as the article says it is designed to have a chilling effect on law firms representing clients who have been wronged by Trump!

“By taking these actions against these major law firms, it is effectively sending a message to all the lawyers that you best not challenge this administration, or you, your lawyers and your clients will suffer,” Zaid [a national security lawyer who often represents whistleblowers] said. “It is the most un-American thing I’ve ever heard.”

Meanwhile... the spineless Republicans in Congress all bow to him and Musk in fear.

You know darn well that this is going to the Supreme Court... at least I hope it does.