Judge blocks Trump Executive Order on Elite law firm

Washington (AP) – A federal judge on Friday blocked a permanent Executive order of the White House aimed at an elite law firmA setback against President Donald Trump's retaliation campaign against the legal profession.

The US district of Beryll Howell said the executive regulation Against the company Perkins, the Coie was a “unconstitutional retaliation” when she ordered that it would be canceled and that the Trump government stops any enforcement of it.

“No American president,” wrote Howell in her 102-page arrangement, “has already given executive commands such as the law firm in question in this complaint with disadvantageous measures that are to be carried out by all executive branch authorities, but in relation

To date, the decision was the final rejection of Trump's Sput similarly formulated instructions against some of the elite law firms in the country, Part of a more comprehensive efforts by the President to reorganize American civil society By focusing on perceived opponents in the hope of depriving concessions from them and bending them to his will. Some of the companies awarded for sanctions have either done a legal work that Trump spoke or currently had associations with prosecutors or previously examined the president.

The edicts have ordered that the security checks of lawyers in the targeted companies are suspended that federal contracts are terminated and their employees are excluded from federal buildings. The punished law firms have described the executive commands as a dispute to the legal system and, in contradiction to the basic principle, that lawyers should be free to represent who they want without fear of the government's reprisals.

In the case of Perkins Coie, the White House quoted his representation of the campaign by Democrat Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential race. Trump also campaigned against one of the former lawyers of the law firm, Marc Elias, to the services of an opposition research company, which was hired in turn A former British spy that created research files examined the potential relationships Between Trump and Russia. Elias left the company in 2021.

In her opinion, Howell wrote that Perkin's Coie was targeted because the company “expressed support for the employment guidelines that the president does not like, the customers who do not like the president who did not like to make the results of the legal disputes that do not like the president and the customers who questioned some of the president's measures, which he also does not like.”

“That,” she wrote, “is unconstitutional retaliation measures and discrimination, simple and simple.”

The decision was not surprising, since Howell previously blocked several provisions of the order and had expressed profound concerns about the Edict during a recent hearing. When she grilled a lawyer of the Ministry of Justice who was commissioned to justify him. Your decision on Friday permanently prohibits the implementation of the executive regulation. She also headed General Prosecutor Pam Bondi and Russell Vougt, Director of the Office for Management and Household, to make all government departments and agencies that had previously received the executive regulation to make copies of their opinion.

The other law firms who have questioned the order against them – Wilmerhale, Jenner & Block and Susman Godfrey – have managed to at least temporarily block the commands. ''

However, other large companies have tried to avert orders by reaching preventive stories that require they requireAmong other things, to devote hundreds of million dollars to free legal services to support causes that support the Trump administration.