The judges temporarily block the orders of Trump targeting Jenner and Block, the law firms Wilmerhale
On Friday, Federal DC judges partially blocked two decrees signed by President Donald Trump targeting law firms Jenner and Block and Wilmerhale – temporarily interrupting Trump’s attempts to punish eminent law firms associated with his political enemies.
In a trial brought by Jenner and Block, the DC Dist Judge John Bates described Trump’s decree – which aims to strip lawyers from any security authorization that they may have severely hold any business that they may have before the federal government – as “disturbing” and “disturbing”. He declared that he targets the rights and rights of the company and its employees to a regular procedure.
Bates, appointed former President George W. Bush, temporarily enjoins the administration from applying aspects of the order who seeks to prevent civil servants from engaging with officials from Jenner and Block after it said that the government had not provided substantial responses to the way the employees of the company threatened national security.
President Donald Trump displays a decree he signed by announcing prices on car imports in the White House Oval Office in Washington on March 26, 2025.
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The judge said that lawyers representing Jenner and Block have shown that they were probably targeted on the basis of their rights to protected freedom of expression and that they would undergo irreparable economic damage if it was fully implemented.
Later Friday, judge Richard Leon also granted a temporary ban order by partially prohibiting another decree signed by Trump targeting Wilmerhale law firm.
Leon, also appointed by former president George W. Bush, said that several parts of Trump’s order clearly show “reprisal actions based on the perceived point of view” of Wilmerhale employees.
“There is no doubt that this action of reprisals cools the discourse and the legal advocacy, or that it is considered as constitutional damage,” said Leon in his written order, following a hearing on Friday evening.
Leon is now the third federal judge to largely accept the arguments of law firms targeted by Trump that his orders are probably unconstitutional – and that if he was implemented, said Leon, Wilmerhale “faces paralyzing losses and his very survival is at stake.”
On Friday, the two law firms brought legal action to block decrees – on the same day, another large law firm concluded an agreement of $ 100 million to prevent a preventive manner a similar Trump decree.
The prosecution accuses Trump of engaging in a radical campaign to intimidate the main law firms who represented the complainants currently pursuing the administration, or who represented or at some point employed those he does not like.
Trump’s decree threatened their future as well as “the legal system itself,” said Jenner and Block in his trial.
“These ordinances send a clear message to the legal profession: ceasing certain representations unfavorable to the government and renounce criticism of the administration – or undergo the consequences,” said Jenner and Block prosecution. “Orders are also trying to put pressure on businesses and individuals to question or even abandon their associations with their chosen lawyer and to cool legal challenges.”
The two companies are the latest companies that seek to counter what was a rapid attack by the White House seeking to target individuals who have hired or represented Trump’s political enemies otherwise.
Meanwhile, Trump said on Friday that law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & FLOM concluded an agreement to avoid one of its orders by providing $ 100 million in pro -good work during the Trump administration – among other guarantees.
This decision sent shock to the legal community. The White House is ready to target more law firms, indicate ABC News, and there are ongoing discussions between the main advisers on the strategy associated with negotiations possibly negotiations with more of them.
Legal researchers said there were little legal precedent for the Trump war against the Great Act, which has created a scary effect through the legal community, and most will certainly have a scary effect on his opponents who will need a legal representation against him.
The legal actions of the firms present themselves to successful efforts of the law firm Perkins Coy, which, earlier this month
