Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day.
When you take a settlement with Donald Trump, you are not actually buying a legal peace and you are not actually buying certainty as to your obligations. At all points, the chance that the president’s ire could be enforced against them legally has always only been one of the points of pressure.
— Walter Olson, senior fellow at the Cato Institute’s Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies, in comments given to Bloomberg Law, concerning the nine law firms — Paul, Weiss; Kirkland & Ellis; Latham & Watkins; Cadwalader; Skadden; Willkie Farr; Milbank; A&O Shearman; and Simpson Thacher — that made deals with Trump to get out from under his onerous and unconstitutional executive orders. Those firms were recently subpoenaed by the Justice Department in relation to the brokering of those deals by Trump lawyer, Boris Epshteyn.
Staci Zaretsky is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she’s worked since 2011. She’d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Bluesky, X/Twitter, and Threads, or connect with her on LinkedIn.
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Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day.
When you take a settlement with Donald Trump, you are not actually buying a legal peace and you are not actually buying certainty as to your obligations. At all points, the chance that the president’s ire could be enforced against them legally has always only been one of the points of pressure.
— Walter Olson, senior fellow at the Cato Institute’s Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies, in comments given to Bloomberg Law, concerning the nine law firms — Paul, Weiss; Kirkland & Ellis; Latham & Watkins; Cadwalader; Skadden; Willkie Farr; Milbank; A&O Shearman; and Simpson Thacher — that made deals with Trump to get out from under his onerous and unconstitutional executive orders. Those firms were recently subpoenaed by the Justice Department in relation to the brokering of those deals by Trump lawyer, Boris Epshteyn.
Staci Zaretsky is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she’s worked since 2011. She’d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Bluesky, X/Twitter, and Threads, or connect with her on LinkedIn.
