A law firm targeted by President Donald Trump wants a federal judge to expand the reach of an injunction issued against an executive order previously found to be “null and void” for violating the Constitution.
On March 27, the 45th and 47th president signed an Executive Order entitled “Addressing Risks from WilmerHale” which — like many similar such orders — accused the Los Angeles-based law firm of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, popularly stylized as WilmerHale, of “conduct detrimental to critical American interests” and which aimed to cut its employees out of the federal government.
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On May 27, Senior U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon, a George W. Bush appointee, issued an emphatic ruling for the plaintiffs in the form of a 73-page memorandum opinion featuring no fewer than 27 exclamation points — used to express disdain for what the court views as the severity of the constitutional violations in Trump’s order.
This is typical of the trump administration. The court order, which was punctuated with numerous exclamation marks, is being ignored by the trump people and has not been distributed to government agencies. As trump often does, he tends to defy and even ignore orders he does not agree with. This is a prime example of his disdain for the rule of law.
