On Friday, federal judges sent to the reprisal campaign of President Trump by issuing temporary banning orders blocking a large part of his decrees targeting two major law firms that participated in investigations on him, Jenner & Block and Wilmerhale.
Decisions have prevented the administration from making sanctions described in decrees, such as prohibiting their lawyers from government, meetings or jobs.
Trump continued Jenner & Block because the cabinet once used a lawyer who became part of the special council team who investigated Trump during his first mandate. But judge John Bates of the Federal District Court of the District of Columbia challenged Mr. Trump’s order because he also punished the cabinet for his professional work, a common characteristic of many large law firms to provide legal representation to unpopular or poor customers.
Judge Bates said he had found that this “disturbing” and “disturbing” action.
Shortly after the decision of judge Bates, another judge of the same courthouse, Richard Leon, made a similar temporary ban order against a Trump decree targeting another company, Wilmerhale, where Robert S. Mueller III worked before and after being special advisor in the Trump-Russia investigation.
The judges allowed the parties of the President to be held to the orders of the President, the security authorizations of the lawyers’ lawyers.
Jenner & Block and Wilmerhale had prosecution by the Washington Federal Court earlier Friday. Now, they and a third company, Perkins Coie, won the first victories in court.
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