The Law Firms’ Deals With Trump Are Looking Worse and Worse
The Trump administration is on an unbroken losing streak in the courts — 0 for 4 — in its effort to defend President Donald Trump’s executive orders targeting large law firms. And things could get worse — for Trump, and for the law firms that capitulated to him.
It has been several months since the first major law firm brokered a deal with Trump to get out from under an executive order penalizing the firm for conducting work or hiring lawyers that the White House disfavors. Eight firms followed that precedent in order to avoid becoming targeted themselves, ultimately committing a combined total of nearly $1 billion in pro bono legal services to largely unspecified initiatives supported by the Trump administration. Four firms refused to buckle and successfully challenged the orders targeting them in federal district court in Washington, D.C.
Here is one example of many that Dotard's policies are on the far right. No prez has the right to dictate who a law firm hires or who it represents. It's an autocratic outrage, a front page story that would demand a continuous national discussion and push back from civil libertarians of both parties. But this is the error (sorry, era) of trump so the story has been overwhelmed by dozens of other outrages. A flooding of the zone if you will.
How do we spend the proper amount of time talking about an imposition of power no prez possesses when at the same time federal officers continue occupying a major US city weeks after unrest there has subsided? What makes trump think he has the authority to do these things and why do you acquiesce to them?