{"id":131957,"date":"2025-08-25T10:52:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T18:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/08\/25\/of-course-trump-is-appealing-his-final-biglaw-executive-order-loss\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T10:52:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T18:52:12","slug":"of-course-trump-is-appealing-his-final-biglaw-executive-order-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/08\/25\/of-course-trump-is-appealing-his-final-biglaw-executive-order-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Course Trump Is Appealing His Final Biglaw Executive Order Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump\u2019s\u00a0efforts to defend the executive orders targeting Biglaw firms that have earned his ire<\/a>\u00a0are loser cases. Four different district court judges from\u00a0across the political spectrum<\/a>\u00a0have all ruled that EOs aimed at\u00a0Perkins Coie<\/a>,\u00a0Jenner & Block<\/a>,\u00a0WilmerHale<\/a>, and\u00a0Susman Godfrey<\/a>, respectively, are unconstitutional on a variety of grounds. Yet, the administration is\u00a0appealing the Jenner & Block case<\/a>, and the WilmerHale <\/a>case, and the Perkins Coie one <\/a>too. So, not terribly surprising that, on Friday, the Department of Justice filed an appeal in the fourth Biglaw EO case \u2014 the one targeting Susman Godfrey.<\/p>\n

Susman\u2019s spokesperson came out swinging in response to the appeal, saying, \u201cThe courts have spoken clearly and decisively: the administration\u2019s executive orders targeting law firms violate the Constitution and undermine Americans\u2019 right to choose a lawyer without fear. Susman Godfrey challenged this order because we believe in the rule of law. That belief continues to guide us as we fight the administration\u2019s unwarranted appeal and continue to defend the rights of our clients and our colleagues.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the rub is that the Supreme Court is disturbingly willing<\/a> to eschew legal norms and bend over backwards for Trump, so what should be an easy call at the High Court becomes an open question. And Trump is hoping to capitalize on that <\/a>and is pushing to get in front of his favorite justices<\/a>. These EOs are pretty obviously an affront to legal institutions and the very rule of law\u00a0\u2014 let\u2019s hope the majority of the Court sees that too.<\/p>\n

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\"\"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 Of Course Trump Is Appealing His Final Biglaw Executive Order Loss<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Donald Trump\u2019s\u00a0efforts to defend the executive orders targeting Biglaw firms that have earned his ire<\/a>\u00a0are loser cases. Four different district court judges from\u00a0across the political spectrum<\/a>\u00a0have all ruled that EOs aimed at\u00a0Perkins Coie<\/a>,\u00a0Jenner & Block<\/a>,\u00a0WilmerHale<\/a>, and\u00a0Susman Godfrey<\/a>, respectively, are unconstitutional on a variety of grounds. Yet, the administration is\u00a0appealing the Jenner & Block case<\/a>, and the WilmerHale <\/a>case, and the Perkins Coie one <\/a>too. So, not terribly surprising that, on Friday, the Department of Justice filed an appeal in the fourth Biglaw EO case \u2014 the one targeting Susman Godfrey.<\/p>\n

Susman\u2019s spokesperson came out swinging in response to the appeal, saying, \u201cThe courts have spoken clearly and decisively: the administration\u2019s executive orders targeting law firms violate the Constitution and undermine Americans\u2019 right to choose a lawyer without fear. Susman Godfrey challenged this order because we believe in the rule of law. That belief continues to guide us as we fight the administration\u2019s unwarranted appeal and continue to defend the rights of our clients and our colleagues.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the rub is that the Supreme Court is disturbingly willing<\/a> to eschew legal norms and bend over backwards for Trump, so what should be an easy call at the High Court becomes an open question. And Trump is hoping to capitalize on that <\/a>and is pushing to get in front of his favorite justices<\/a>. These EOs are pretty obviously an affront to legal institutions and the very rule of law\u00a0\u2014 let\u2019s hope the majority of the Court sees that too.<\/p>\n

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\"\"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 @[email\u00a0protected].<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump\u2019s\u00a0efforts to defend the executive orders targeting Biglaw firms that have earned his ire\u00a0are loser cases. Four different district court judges from\u00a0across the political spectrum\u00a0have all ruled that EOs aimed at\u00a0Perkins Coie,\u00a0Jenner & Block,\u00a0WilmerHale, and\u00a0Susman Godfrey, respectively, are unconstitutional on a variety of grounds. Yet, the administration is\u00a0appealing the Jenner & Block case, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":131935,"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-131957","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\/08\/IMG_5243-1-scaled-e1623338814705-620x568-xVjfuf.jpg?fit=620%2C568&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131957","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=131957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}