President Trump’s reprisal campaign against elite law firms that has resisted his efforts to captivate them is, so far, does not go well.
On Tuesday, a judge canceled his decree to crush Wilmerhale, one of the many companies which, according to which, the president did him wrong or did work for his political opponents. The decision was the last in a series of uninterrupted victories for the handful of companies that continued to arrest him.
Judge Richard J. Leon of the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia judged that the order was unconstitutional and that “should be struck in its entirety”, adding That Trump seemed determined to lead the company to the negotiating table by imposing “a kitchen sink of serious sanctions”.
The decision seemed to validate the strategy, adopted by a minority of companies, to fight the administration instead of yielding to a pressure campaign and concluding agreements with Mr. Trump to avoid persecution. The judges have already rejected similar punishing executive decrees intended for companies Perkins Coie And Jenner & BlockAnd the lawyers representing Susman Godfrey asked a fourth judge earlier this month to render a final decision in their business.
Justice Leon said that despite his decisive decision, the firm had already suffered due to Mr. Trump’s actions. Even if he had temporarily blocked The order one day after the president signed it, he noted that existing customers had already started to “reduce their relations with Wilmerhale, and that new customers take their business elsewhere”.
“The cornerstone of the American justice system is an independent judicial system and an independent bar ready to combat unpopular cases, so intimidating. The founding fathers knew it! ” Judge Leon wrote in a 73 -page pages notice Lace of more than two dozen exclamation points.
