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Throughout his firm term in office and his campaign leading up to his reelection, President Trump was the target of several bruising lawfare campaigns. Now that he’s back in office, he’s working to tackle “Big Law” and bring an end to the politicization of justice once and for all.
From Breitbart. President Donald Trump has been hammering “Big Law” — the massive law firms that have indirectly subsidized the Democrats’ “lawfare” campaign against him, and that have encouraged lawyers to provide pro bono (free) work for the left.
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Earlier this month, Trump issued an executive order targeting Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP after it hired former Manhattan prosecutor Mark Pomerantz, who had orchestrated the persecution of Trump in the Stormy Daniels case.
Trump also noted that “a Paul Weiss partner and former leading prosecutor in the office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller brought a pro bono suit” against January 6 defendants. …
Trump suspended the firm’s security clearances and ordered federal contractors to end any business with it. He also flagged the firm’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies.
Paul, Weiss soon capitulated, agreeing to provide $40 million in pro bono work for administration-friendly causes …
Trump had already targeted Perkins Coie, the Democrat-aligned firm responsible for hiring Fusion GPS on behalf of the Hillary Clinton (secretly, and in violation of federal campaign finance rules) to produce the so-called “Russia dossier” by former British spy Christopher Steele …
This week, he expanded his executive orders to include Jenner & Block, which hired “collusion” prosecutor Andrew Weissman after Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation ended in failure; and also included WilmerHale, another firm that has hired Mueller prosecutors and that has taken up a variety of causes favored by Democrats.
It remains to be seen whether these firms also fold. But they are finally facing the cost of their partisan behavior. …
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(Excerpt from Breitbart. Photo Credit: The White House/Flickr)