In continuing a continuous campaign against major law, President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday aimed at Wilmerhale, a law firm linked to his political characteristics that led to previous investigations into his administration.
It is suspended by security permits for Wilmerhale employees, limits their arrival at federal buildings, and overwhelms the contracts of the government company, what Trump described in his matter as participating in “party representations to achieve political goals” and “efforts made on the basis of race”.
Wilmerhale has a team of more than 1,100 lawyers in 12 offices in the United States and Europe. In 2023, the 45th rank ranked in the country, which achieved nearly $ 1.5 billion of revenue, according to the American lawyer.
A fact of facts in the White House of the accused order, Weller, with a “reward” of the former FBI director Robert Muller and his colleagues with positions in the company for what he called the “partisan investigation” against the president and others.
Muller, a former officer in Vietnam in Vietnam and the FBI director in the wake of terrorist attacks on September 11, investigated a private lawyer in Russian intervention in the Trump election for the year 2016. The investigation eventually found insufficient evidence to be linked. Mueller was a partner in Wilmerhale before the investigation and joined it yet. It is not included on the company’s website.
The executive order follows similar measures against legal forces such as Jenner & Block, Perkins Coie and Covington & Burling. Trump has previously canceled an order targeting Paul Weiss after the company agreed to allocate $ 40 million in excellent legal work on his administration’s priorities.
A memorandum from Trump issued on March 22, entitled “Preventing the Violations of the Certified Regime and the Federal Court”, also approved by Public Prosecutor Bam Bondi and Minister of Internal Security Christie Nayyim for the penalty of law firing companies that filed lawsuits that he sees “trivial” or “disturbing”.
On Friday afternoon, lawyers representing Wilmerhale submitted a request for a temporary restriction to stop the executive procedures in the Colombia Provincial Court. The court has not yet agreed to the request, but Judge John Pitts from the same boycott approved a restricted order of similar executive measures against Jenner & Block. Bates called part of the president’s executive against Jenner & Block as “annoying”.
A Wilmerhale Business Insider spokesman told the company “a long tradition in representing a wide range of customers, including matters against the departments of both parties”, and that they “look forward to following all the appropriate treatments for this illegal matter.”
Wilmerhale is among the prominent law firms that represent customers in lawsuits that defy the main Trump administration policies. The company was also raised Amicus summary In January 2024, Trump’s attempt to gain immunity with regard to his criminal simulation to intervene the alleged elections “does not agree with our constitution.”
Chris Matti, a lawyer for the law firm, Kontect Coskov, Koskov, Pedar, and a former federal prosecutor, said that the order of orders is a constitutional threat.
“If the lawyers abandon our duty to protect the rights of those targeted by the government, our democracy will decrease,” Matti said in an email.
The White House did not respond to the BI request for comment.
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March 28, 2025 – This story was updated to include Wilmeerhale’s response to this.
