Attorneys who faced professional penalties for President Donald Trump standing up are forced to view the objections of the law firm targeted by the executive order as hypocritical.
According to conservative supporters of Trump’s efforts, when lawyers allied with Trump lost their legal licence and major companies refused to support the president, those who positioned themselves as defenders of the legal system did nothing.
“Their silence in the face of the same actions over the past four years against lawyers representing President Trump (including me) is deafening,” John Eastman told the Daily Color News Foundation.
Following an order that removed security clearance in February from the lawyers for Covington & Burling, a company representing former special advisor Jack Smith, Trump has fired a series of orders restricting some of the government contracts and access to the nation’s best law firms to the buildings.
three Companies Targeted by the executive order, Perkins Coie, Wilmerhale, Jenner & Block chose to fight back in court. Other companies – among them SkadenARPS, Slate, Meagher, From. Willkie Farr & Gallagher; Milbank;and pole Weiss – Provided legal services for millions and dealt with the administration to avoid diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices.
Faced with a rejection procedure in California to challenge the 2020 election results, Eastman is unclear whether Trump’s order will be upheld, but finds it appealing that “law firms and blue state AGs are screaming about how cheating is about how cheating it is to target lawyers for the representation of unnatural clients of administrators.” He is now Attractive Last year’s California bar recommendation That he is rejected.
“In my view, the only way to beat law and weaponization over the past four years is to apply it to each other. [basis] So, as if the perpetrator of the law is now feeling a fever. [shoe] Eastman told DCNF. “Like the independent prosecutor’s laws weaponized against the Reagan administration, turning on the Clinton administration led the way of the Dodo Bird.”
Big law, big lib
Support for the cause of the “Big Law” company leftist wing is widespread. 2024 study by Notre Dame Law Professor Derek Muller Found 95% of Pro Bono Amicus Briefs Submitted by large law firms on top saliency issues such as abortion and LGBTQ issues deprived of the liberal aspect, with 64% of the total 851 briefs analysed upholding the liberal position.
Fifth Circuit Judge James Ho made something similar observation In a March agreement, the judge wrote, “It should not be surprising when the “Topflight” businesses consistently jump to only one side of a politically charged conflict.”
Some Trump’s legitimate allies can see the order as a clever way to correct the ship, or at least prevent it from sinking into a complete ideological acquisition. (Related: Former Obama DOJ officials lead hundreds of law firms to oppose Trump orders against companies representing the Clinton campaign.)
1/8 Let me comment on what’s going on at a prominent law firm. It’s often called Biglaw (I came out but it’s unfairly cancelled on both the fake and the allegations of Article 2 of the Constitution and its adjacent legal…
– Jeffclark (@jeffclarks) March 22, 2025
“Thanks to Trump. Trump had to take some action to push these companies back, as Big Law had become so monolithic over the course of 20 years, dominated to the left.” I wrote it “Allowing trends to allow freedom to continue as the best legal know-how and resources are placed on only one side, destroying the country and accelerating the political monopoly of the left that is not recognised unless it is stopped is a threat to freedom.”
Clark has been appointed defendant in the now-carrying case brought against Trump by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. DC Bar Disciplinary Panels too Recommended His legal license was suspended in August.
During the 2020 election, Trump was “hunger for Big Law’s support, but Biden chose garbage,” Clark said in X.
“In just 20 years, since Gibson Dunn, a Biglow company since 2000, has not taken a step to help President Trump.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, formerly a registered Democrat; left His post as the oldest Wall Street Law partner Hard To defend President Donald Trump in a 2023 case filed by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
The former Blanche company, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, signature Trump’s contract with the administration on Friday, at least $100 million. announcement A true society.
Mike Davis, founder of the Article III project, told DCNF that businesses will feel the “legal, political and financial consequences” of the law against Trump, his aides and allies.
“What clients hire a law firm with Trump’s scar-colored letter?” he said.
“Make big laws great again”
Pressure is driving tensions into a turning point both inside and outside the company.
More than 500 companies have signed an Amicas Brief submitted by former Obama Attorney General Donald Beaton Veriri Jr. to support Perkins Koy.
Some top school law students are reconsidering Georgetown Law students are reconsidering offers to cancel recruitment events on Skadden ARPS to work to work for the companies they made the deal. It has been reported.
Over 90 professors signed at Harvard Law School letter To a student who condemned the “serious challenges to the rule of law” under the Trump administration.
Professor Adrian Verle of Harvard University disagreed with a letter from a colleague. write In a standard open letter, “It aims to “appropriate the ideal of sharedness and turn it into a sectarian purpose, and to completely define those who implicitly oppose it as opponents of the rule of law.”
“Where were the signatories of the letters when federal prosecutors took the unprecedented steps to bring dozens of criminal charges against the former president, the president’s major electoral enemy at the time?” Vermeule asked. “Where were Jeff Clark, Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman and other lawyers for President Trump’s representatives, was it not a threat to the rule of law, where were the signatories?
White House spokesman Harrison Fields told DCNF that Trump is “making big laws great again.”
“Instead of using their power and influence to make our country dangerous and free, the big laws work to permanently use access to the federal government,” he said. “This is only possible because President Trump’s swift leadership is responsible for the big law.”
Some conservatives see things differently. Paul Clement, Attorney General under George W. Bush, is IS. Expression Wilmerhale in a lawsuit against the administration.
“It’s especially great that Paul Clement stands up for Biglaw when Biglaw doesn’t have the courage to stand up for him,” says conservative jurist Ed Whelan I wrote it x.
Clement Resignation He left Kirkland and Ellis in 2022 after refusing to a Republican lawsuit against the Marriage Defense Act from King & Spalding in 2011. Stop Representing the client under the second amendment condition.
Wilmer Hale Litigation “It is the core principle of our legal system: “We should not be punished simply for defending or prosecuting a lawsuit,” he said.
“In an unprecedented attack on that bedrock principle, the president has issued multiple executive orders in recent weeks targeting law firms and their employees, causing him to denial or employ lawyers that he dislikes as a form of retaliation to represent his clients,” it continues.
Hans von Spakowsky, a senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation’s Edwin Miese Center for Justice Research, told DCNF “there is no first right to amend security clearance.”
“We also have no constitutional rights to government contracts, especially when, like here, the president says he is engaged in racism in violation of employment, personnel policies and federal law,” he said.
Trump’s law firm deals are just one way the administration is taking on legal facilities.
Andrea Lucas, acting chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Committee (EEOC). request Information on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) employment practices from 20 law firms in March. “No one is beyond the law. It’s certainly not a private bar,” she said in a statement.
Attorney General Pam Bondi Bondi wrote a letter In February, the American Bar Association (ABA) threatened to revoke the “privilege” as the sole accreditation body over diversity requirements for law school accreditation standards.
DOJ Limited Wednesday’s lawyer from attending or speaking at ABA events.
“The ABA is free to file lawsuits to assist activists’ causes, including inserting them into pending lawsuits as Amicus Curiae,” writes Blanche. Note. “The Justice Department must, in line with the Constitution, be the custodian of public finances, representing all Americans regardless of ideology or political preference, defending policies chosen by American democratically elected leadership, reflected in congressional laws and presidential policy choices.”
The Department of Justice (DOJ) did not respond to requests for comment.
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