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Miles Archer

(21,799 posts)
Fri May 23, 2025, 04:36 PM May 2025

This ruling against Trump for his "retribution" against the law firm Jenner & Block should be GROUNDS FOR IMPEACHMENT.

U.S. District Judge John D. Bates, a Republican appointee, permanently blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order targeting the law firm Jenner & Block, finding the retribution unconstitutional.

The order, issued Friday afternoon, alleged that Trump was trying “to chill legal representation the administration doesn’t like, thereby insulating the Executive Branch from the judicial check fundamental to the separation of powers."

Trump targeted the law firm, citing lawyer Andrew Weissmann, a top prosecutor who worked on special counsel Robert Mueller's team that investigated Trump and his connections to Russia in the 2016 election. Weissmann hadn't worked for the firm since 2011 and has been teaching at New York University Law School.

The executive order attempted to kill any government contracts with the firm and block any of the firm's lawyers from accessing federal buildings like courthouses.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-law-firm-targeting/

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This ruling against Trump for his "retribution" against the law firm Jenner & Block should be GROUNDS FOR IMPEACHMENT. (Original Post) Miles Archer May 2025 OP
ANGH. flvegan May 2025 #1
Judge rules that Trump's executive order targeting the law firm Jenner & Block is unconstitutional LetMyPeopleVote May 2025 #2

LetMyPeopleVote

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2. Judge rules that Trump's executive order targeting the law firm Jenner & Block is unconstitutional
Fri May 23, 2025, 05:37 PM
May 2025

trump did not appeal the first such order. Will trump appeal this ruling?



NEW: Judge rules that Trump’s executive order targeting the law firm Jenner & Block is unconstitutional, the second such order to be overturned. DOJ still hasn’t appealed an earlier ruling that blocked an executive order targeting Perkins Coie


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