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This is how it is done,
wrote former US Attorney Barbara McQuade, cheering the Jenner & Block suit on X and reprinting the release that the firm 'stands firm
Democrats and their law firms weaponized the legal process to try to punish and jail their political opponents. The President's executive orders are lawful directives to ensure that the President's agenda is implemented and that law firms comply with the law."
Harrison Fields, the White House deputy press secretary, to Newsweek on Friday
Expect more from the law firms. The increasing swiftness of the responses show that they now anticipate and understand that they are under attack from a previously unthinkable place, the White House. The Wilmer Hale firm filed their lawsuit less than a full day after Trump took action against them. These firms are prepared to fight it out in the one place where Trump can be forced to listen: The courts."
Former federal prosecutor Joyce White Vance in a Substack post FridayAndrew Weissmann's career has been rooted in weaponized government and abuse of power, including devastating tens of thousands of American families who worked for the now defunct Arthur Andersen LLP, only to have his unlawfully aggressive prosecution overturned by the Supreme Court,
Trump wrote in his executive orderIt is intended to hamper the ability of individuals and businesses to have the lawyers of their choice zealously represent them,
Jenner's attorneys wrote
That client therefore will either need to attend the meeting without outside counsel or would need to retain new outside counsel before April 3,
the firm stated in its lawsuitOur Constitution, top to bottom, forbids attempts by the government to punish citizens and lawyers based on the clients they represent, the positions they advocate, the opinions they voice, and the people with whom they associate,
Jenner & Block wrote in its complaint, filed in Washington, D.C.While most litigation requires discovery to unearth retaliatory motive, the Order makes no secret of its intent to punish WilmerHale for its past and current representations of clients before the Nation’s courts and for its perceived connection to the views that Mr. Mueller expressed as Special Counsel,
the WilmerHale lawsuit says
Several clients have expressed concerns about government-mandated disclosure of their relationship with the Firm to federal agencies and the impact that may have on the contractor’s own relationships with the federal government,
the lawsuit states
Partners at the Firm have spent hundreds of hours, collectively, speaking with clients about the Order and its implications,
the complaint saysContinued refusals by federal officials to meet with Jenner lawyers, or denying Jenner lawyers access to federal agencies and buildings, would be devastating to both Jenner’s legal practice and its clients’ interests,
the firm said in its complaintThese efforts to single out those who sue the government, to undermine the attorney-client relationship, to deter protected speech adverse to the Administration’s policy agenda, and to punish citizens for their associations are irreconcilable with the Constitution,
lawyers representing the law firm wrote in court papers filed in Washington’s federal district court on Friday