NBC News — A federal judge on Friday struck down President Donald Trump’s executive order targeting the law firm Perkins Coie in a blistering opinion calling the president’s efforts “an unprecedented attack” on the U.S. judicial system.
U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell issued a permanent injunction barring the enforcement of any part of Trump’s order from March, which focused on the firm’s representation of 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and its work with billionaire donor George Soros.
“No American President has ever before issued executive orders like the one at issue in this lawsuit targeting a prominent law firm with adverse actions to be executed by all Executive branch agencies but, in purpose and effect, this action draws from a playbook as old as Shakespeare, who penned the phrase: ‘The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers,’” Howell wrote.
“The importance of independent lawyers to ensuring the American judicial system’s fair and impartial administration of justice has been recognized in this country since its founding era,” Howell wrote, referencing John Adams’ decision to represent eight British soldiers charged with murder in connection with the Boston Massacre.
She said Trump’s order “violates the Constitution and is thus null and void.”
Trump’s executive order limited Perkins Coie employees’ access to government buildings, revoked security clearances at the firm, and ordered the heads of all federal agencies to terminate contracts with the firm and refrain from hiring employees who worked there.
Howell had grilled Justice Department lawyer Richard Lawson at a hearing over the measure last week, and Lawson was unable to answer basic questions about the other firms that had reached deals with the White House to avoid their own executive orders.
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So the administration is using the judiciary to go after its political enemies, yet it sounds like you’re on the side of the administration?
**Submission Statement**
A federal judge has permanently BLOCKED the entirety of Trump’s executive order targeting the law firm Perkins Coie.
The order is [here](https://archive.is/Z2aI4).
[Court records](https://archive.is/xASDN) (DOJ’s US vs. Backpage) case on child sex trafficking shows that the DNC & H Clinton’s law firm, Perkins Coie, the one that paid for the fake dossier, had a bank account worth $2.9 million seized.
Let’s be honest here. If they had bent the knee like the other law firms, they wouldn’t have been targeted by the executive order. You wouldn’t be making post about them and human trafficking. It’s only a problem to you because they didn’t kneel for your king.