{"id":145380,"date":"2026-03-04T16:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T00:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/03\/04\/trumps-fear-of-looking-like-a-loser-becomes-dojs-embarrassing-legal-headache\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T16:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T00:08:09","slug":"trumps-fear-of-looking-like-a-loser-becomes-dojs-embarrassing-legal-headache","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/03\/04\/trumps-fear-of-looking-like-a-loser-becomes-dojs-embarrassing-legal-headache\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Fear Of Looking Like A Loser Becomes DOJ\u2019s Embarrassing Legal Headache"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

I think at all cost, he does not want to look like he has failed or been defeated. Maybe he was hoping this would fly below the radar and when it did not, he was not happy and changed his mind.<\/strong><\/p>\n

[The swift change in strategy makes] DOJ look less competent and that may lead the court to be less deferential to government lawyers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0Rebecca Roiphe, a former Manhattan prosecutor, in comments given to Bloomberg Law<\/a>, concerning Donald Trump\u2019s reaction to negative press coverage on the Department of Justice withdrawing<\/a> from its defense of its executive orders targeted against Perkins Coie, WilmerHale, Susman Godfrey, and Jenner & Block, which resulted in a flip-flop less than 24 hours later<\/a>, with the DOJ crawling back to withdraw its motion to voluntarily dismiss the appeals of its cases against the Biglaw firms.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to\u00a0email<\/a>\u00a0her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Trump\u2019s Fear Of Looking Like A Loser Becomes DOJ\u2019s Embarrassing Legal Headache<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

I think at all cost, he does not want to look like he has failed or been defeated. Maybe he was hoping this would fly below the radar and when it did not, he was not happy and changed his mind.<\/strong><\/p>\n

[The swift change in strategy makes] DOJ look less competent and that may lead the court to be less deferential to government lawyers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0Rebecca Roiphe, a former Manhattan prosecutor, in comments given to Bloomberg Law<\/a>, concerning Donald Trump\u2019s reaction to negative press coverage on the Department of Justice withdrawing<\/a> from its defense of its executive orders targeted against Perkins Coie, WilmerHale, Susman Godfrey, and Jenner & Block, which resulted in a flip-flop less than 24 hours later<\/a>, with the DOJ crawling back to withdraw its motion to voluntarily dismiss the appeals of its cases against the Biglaw firms.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to\u00a0email<\/a>\u00a0her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Trump\u2019s Fear Of Looking Like A Loser Becomes DOJ\u2019s Embarrassing Legal Headache<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day. I think at all cost, he does not want to look like he has failed or been defeated. Maybe he was hoping this would fly below the radar and when it did not, he was not happy and changed his mind. [The swift change in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":145381,"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-145380","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\/2026\/03\/Staci-Zaretsky-zPUDHJ.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145380","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=145380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}