Jenner & Block on Tuesday became the last goal in President Donald Trump’s war against the major law after he issued an executive order that cancels the security permits of its lawyer and the order to review government contracts. But Jenner indicated that he was not planning to retreat without fighting.
The company, which is headquartered in Chicago, is employing more than 400 lawyers in six offices in the country, and is the fourth major law firm targeted by the Trump administration with similar executive procedures. Both companies – Paul WeissBerkins Koy, Kovington and Burling – ties with Trump’s political opponents.
On Tuesday’s order, Trump specifically identified lawyer Andrew Weissman, an employee of Jenner who worked as a major prosecutor in the office of Robert Muller’s advisor, who in Trump’s relations with Russia in 2016. Wimman described the matter as “a root of government and abuse of power.”
“Jenner & Block had a long history representing customers, paid and bono, in their most difficult issues since 1914,” Jenner & Block said in a statement issued after the order. “Today, we have been called an executive order similar to one of the people who were already announced unconstitutional by a federal court. We are still focusing on service and protecting the interests of our customers with dedication, integrity and experiences that have identified our company for more than a hundred years and we will follow all the appropriate circles.”
On March 12, the American boycott judge, Bereil Hawal, prevented Trump’s order partially against Birkins Koy. Politico She stated that during the emergency session, the judge said that “the revenge animation” of Trump’s order against the company was “clear on its face” and “running face to face in the first amendment protection wall.”
On Friday, the Ministry of Justice presented a a movement To abolish the people of Huil from overseeing the lawsuit, on the pretext that the judge is “insufficiently neutral” to judge the case.
While Perkins Koy is fighting the court’s executive, another targeted company pursued a contradictory approach to dealing with Trump’s actions against it.
Instead of challenging the legitimacy of the matter, Paul Weiss agreed to reassess his employment practices in compliance with Trump’s anti -control initiatives and save $ 40 million in free legal work for more reasons set by the Trump administration, such as combating anti -Semitism and helping the coalition. Trump canceled the matter against Paul Weiss after the agreement was concluded, although Business Insider had previously reported the language in the Paul Weiss version of the agreement that did not include references to the Dei that was in the Trump Declaration.
Rachel CohenSkadden, ARPS, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP last Friday, last Friday Publicly For what she said was Resisting her company to challenge the president’s orders.
Also on Friday, President A. Memorandum of Public Prosecutor Pam Bondi He ordered it to define “trivial” claims against his administration and inform the law firing companies associated with cases so that they can be targeted for punitive acts such as Paul Weiss and Berkins Koy.
In an email to his employees on Sunday, President Paul Weiss Brad Carb described Trump’s order as “unprecedented” in the history of the company that lasted 150 years and “an existential threat”.
“It was possible for the executive matter to destroy our company easily,” Carib wrote. “It has brought the full weight of the government to our company, our people and our agents.”
The assault on the major law – and the treatment of every different company to orders against them – has made waves across the legal industry, as legal scientists warn that unprecedented attacks by the president sitting a threat to the rule of law that have effects that exceed the destruction of the target companies.
“None of this has happened, or maybe not happened since Andrew Jackson. I mean, this is really a kind of constitutional crisis,” said Nima Al Rahmani, former Public Prosecutor of Western trial attorneys. “I think our legal system is being attacked, and it is a matter of who will defend it.”
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