US President Donald Trump goes to board the Marine One to depart for Alabama on the South Lawn of the White House on the White House on May 1, 2025.
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A federal judge on Friday hit the executive order of President Donald Trump as a “an unprecedented attack” on the US judicial system, targeting Law firm Perkins Koi in a blistering opinion.
US District Judge Beril Howell issued a permanent prohibitory order from March to any part of Trump’s order, which focused on its work with the representation of the firm of the 2016 Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and with billionaire donor Donor George Soros.
“No US President has ever issued a similar executive order in the case, which targets a major law firm with adverse tasks to be executed by all executive branch agencies, but in purpose and influence, this action is old as a Shakespeare from a playbook, which has written to the phrase: ‘The first thing is that we kill all the Wakils.
Hawl, referring to John Adams’s decision to represent eight British soldiers on charges of murder in connection with the Boston massacre, said, “The importance of independent lawyers has been recognized since its founding era in this country to ensure the fair administration of the US judicial system and the fair administration of justice.”
He said that Trump’s order “violates the Constitution and thus zero and zero.”
The Department of Justice did not immediately respond to the request of the comment on Friday night.
Trump’s executive order limited access to government buildings of Perkins, canceled security approval in the firm, and ordered the heads of all federal agencies to eliminate contracts with the firm and avoid hiring employees working there.
Hawl grorded Richard Lawson, a lawyer of the Department of Justice, at a hearing on last week’s measure, and Lawson was unable to answer basic questions about other firms reaching deals with the White House to avoid their own executive orders.
Howell used a footnot in Friday’s order to criticize the firms that deal with the White House, writing that “some customers can reservation about the implications of such deals for vigorous and enthusiastic representation, for which they are entitled to morally responsible lawyers, because at least they appear to be the least propagated deals.”
Perkins Koi’s “Multi-Year History” and “His promises” during the “Multi-Year History” and “2024 campaigns” his promises to work on his displeasure “moves to the firm, if he further shows that the Executive Order” was released to seek the fertility of the firm for the firm of customers in political campaigns or cases, said that he returned the 2017.
Howell wrote, “This objective is no more than unconstitutional vengeance for the first amendment protected activity of the plaintiff.”
