US EditionLaw firms divided over response to Trump orders
- President Donald Trump has taken punitive actions against law firms challenging him, including targeting their security clearances and making accusations of dishonesty against them.
- Legal experts warn that Trump's actions pose an unprecedented threat to the legal field and the First Amendment, calling it a constitutional crisis.
- Several firms, including Perkins Coie, are pushing back against Trump's orders, emphasizing that attorneys should represent clients without government interference.
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The American Constitutional Society Calls On Quiet Law School Deans To Speak Up - Above the Law
Lawyers, law schools and law firms have long been thought of as the people and places that love a good principled argument. But that reputation is slipping. Everyone has been talking about Paul Weiss’s cowardice in the face of the Trump administration, but they aren’t the only legal staple that capitulated instead of fighting back — Columbia also made headlines for folding instead of fighting. We know that their respective foils are Perkins Coie…
Law firms divided over response to Trump orders
The diverging paths taken by three law firms targeted by the Trump administration show a major divide over how the legal community is responding to a White House ratcheting up the pressure. The administration has stripped security clearances at a trio of firms, targeting one attorney at Covington & Burling and all attorneys with clearances…
Raskin: We're in the 'Fight of Our Lives' Against Trump's Disregard of the Law
Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said Monday on CNN's "The Arena" that Democrats were in the fight of their lives against President Donald Trump's "cavalier disregard" of the Constitution and the rule of law. The post Raskin: We’re in the ‘Fight of Our Lives’ Against Trump’s Disregard of the Law appeared first on Breitbart.
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