{"id":125082,"date":"2025-07-01T16:02:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T00:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/07\/01\/despite-series-of-losses-trump-is-trying-again-to-defend-his-biglaw-executive-orders\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T16:02:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T00:02:51","slug":"despite-series-of-losses-trump-is-trying-again-to-defend-his-biglaw-executive-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/07\/01\/despite-series-of-losses-trump-is-trying-again-to-defend-his-biglaw-executive-orders\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite Series Of Losses, Trump Is Trying, Again, To Defend His Biglaw Executive Orders"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump has nothing but losses when it comes to defending his Executive Orders<\/a> targeting Biglaw firms. A series of federal judges in different jurisdictions \u2014 and appointed by a variety of presidents, both Democratic and Republican<\/a> \u2014 have determined the EOs violate the Constitution in an array of ways (specifically the First, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments). Indeed, every Biglaw firm (Perkins Coie<\/a>, Jenner & Block<\/a>, WilmerHale<\/a>, and Susman Godfrey<\/a>) that challenged the EOs in court were granted summary judgment.<\/p>\n

But you just know Trump isn\u2019t going to rest until Sam Alito has an opportunity to weigh in. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s right, the Department of Justice filed a notice of appeal<\/a> to the D.C. Circuit in the Perkins Coie matter, chronologically the first case to challenge the Biglaw EOs<\/a>. While the basis for the appeal isn\u2019t listed, we know the MAGA legal brain trust has been test driving arguments<\/a> in defense of the EOs that all basically boil down to \u201cI\u2019m the president and I can do what I want.\u201d Which might sound vapid and unserious, but after the<\/a> latest eye-popping<\/a> set of decisions <\/a>from the Supreme Court, well, you\u2019d be justified in being at least a little nervous.<\/p>\n

But\u00a0Perkins Coie is projecting nothing but confidence and strength, saying in a statement, \u201cThe courts have permanently blocked all four unlawful executive orders targeting law firms because those orders violate core constitutional freedoms.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe look forward to presenting our case to the D.C. Circuit and remain committed to ensuring that the unconstitutional executive order targeting our firm is never enforced,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the meantime, we will continue to practice law, as we have for over a century, and remain guided by the same commitments that first compelled us to bring this challenge: to protect our firm, safeguard the interests of our clients, and uphold the rule of law.\u201d<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s hope the rule of law survives the attack the Biglaw EOs represent. <\/p>\n

\n

\"\"Kathryn Rubino is a Senior Editor at Above the Law, host of The Jabot podcast<\/a>, and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer<\/a>. AtL tipsters are the best, so please connect with her. Feel free to email her<\/a> with any tips, questions, or comments and follow her on Twitter @Kathryn1<\/a>\u00a0or Mastodon @Kathryn1@mastodon.social.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Despite Series Of Losses, Trump Is Trying, Again, To Defend His Biglaw Executive Orders<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump has nothing but losses when it comes to defending his Executive Orders<\/a> targeting Biglaw firms. A series of federal judges in different jurisdictions \u2014 and appointed by a variety of presidents, both Democratic and Republican<\/a> \u2014 have determined the EOs violate the Constitution in an array of ways (specifically the First, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments). Indeed, every Biglaw firm (Perkins Coie<\/a>, Jenner & Block<\/a>, WilmerHale<\/a>, and Susman Godfrey<\/a>) that challenged the EOs in court were granted summary judgment.<\/p>\n

But you just know Trump isn\u2019t going to rest until Sam Alito has an opportunity to weigh in. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s right, the Department of Justice filed a notice of appeal<\/a> to the D.C. Circuit in the Perkins Coie matter, chronologically the first case to challenge the Biglaw EOs<\/a>. While the basis for the appeal isn\u2019t listed, we know the MAGA legal brain trust has been test driving arguments<\/a> in defense of the EOs that all basically boil down to \u201cI\u2019m the president and I can do what I want.\u201d Which might sound vapid and unserious, but after the<\/a> latest eye-popping<\/a> set of decisions <\/a>from the Supreme Court, well, you\u2019d be justified in being at least a little nervous.<\/p>\n

But\u00a0Perkins Coie is projecting nothing but confidence and strength, saying in a statement, \u201cThe courts have permanently blocked all four unlawful executive orders targeting law firms because those orders violate core constitutional freedoms.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe look forward to presenting our case to the D.C. Circuit and remain committed to ensuring that the unconstitutional executive order targeting our firm is never enforced,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the meantime, we will continue to practice law, as we have for over a century, and remain guided by the same commitments that first compelled us to bring this challenge: to protect our firm, safeguard the interests of our clients, and uphold the rule of law.\u201d<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s hope the rule of law survives the attack the Biglaw EOs represent. <\/p>\n

\n

\"\"Kathryn Rubino is a Senior Editor at Above the Law, host of The Jabot podcast<\/a>, and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer<\/a>. AtL tipsters are the best, so please connect with her. Feel free to email her<\/a> with any tips, questions, or comments and follow her on Twitter @Kathryn1<\/a>\u00a0or Mastodon @Kathryn1@mastodon.social.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Donald Trump has nothing but losses when it comes to defending his Executive Orders targeting Biglaw firms. A series of federal judges in different jurisdictions \u2014 and appointed by a variety of presidents, both Democratic and Republican \u2014 have determined the EOs violate the Constitution in an array of ways (specifically the First, Fifth, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":125083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_5243-1-scaled-e1623338814705-620x568-LC0OUB.jpeg?fit=620%2C568&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}