{"id":145781,"date":"2026-03-11T15:54:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T23:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/03\/11\/in-angry-outburst-donald-trump-demands-doj-keep-defending-his-unconstitutional-attacks-on-biglaw\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T15:54:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T23:54:05","slug":"in-angry-outburst-donald-trump-demands-doj-keep-defending-his-unconstitutional-attacks-on-biglaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/03\/11\/in-angry-outburst-donald-trump-demands-doj-keep-defending-his-unconstitutional-attacks-on-biglaw\/","title":{"rendered":"In \u2018Angry Outburst,\u2019 Donald Trump Demands DOJ Keep Defending His Unconstitutional Attacks On Biglaw"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

I never signed off on that<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0President Donald Trump, in comments reportedly given in the Oval Office during an \u201cangry outburst,\u201d<\/a>concerning the\u00a0Justice Department withdrawing<\/a>\u00a0from its defense of his executive orders targeted against Perkins Coie, WilmerHale, Susman Godfrey, and Jenner & Block. Per White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, \u201cAt the president\u2019s direction, the Department of Justice quickly amended this filing,\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/strong> which resulted in a\u00a0flip-flop less than 24 hours later<\/a>, with lawyers from Main Justice crawling back to withdraw a motion to voluntarily dismiss the appeals.<\/em> Leavitt later went on to note that Trump has \u201cconfidence\u201d in Attorney General\u00a0Pam Bondi\u00a0and Deputy Attorney General\u00a0Todd Blanche, as they \u201chonorably\u201d serve.\u00a0<\/strong> <\/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 In \u2018Angry Outburst,\u2019 Donald Trump Demands DOJ Keep Defending His Unconstitutional Attacks On Biglaw<\/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 never signed off on that<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0President Donald Trump, in comments reportedly given in the Oval Office during an \u201cangry outburst,\u201d<\/a>concerning the\u00a0Justice Department withdrawing<\/a>\u00a0from its defense of his executive orders targeted against Perkins Coie, WilmerHale, Susman Godfrey, and Jenner & Block. Per White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, \u201cAt the president\u2019s direction, the Department of Justice quickly amended this filing,\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/strong> which resulted in a\u00a0flip-flop less than 24 hours later<\/a>, with lawyers from Main Justice crawling back to withdraw a motion to voluntarily dismiss the appeals.<\/em> Leavitt later went on to note that Trump has \u201cconfidence\u201d in Attorney General\u00a0Pam Bondi\u00a0and Deputy Attorney General\u00a0Todd Blanche, as they \u201chonorably\u201d serve.\u00a0<\/strong> <\/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 In \u2018Angry Outburst,\u2019 Donald Trump Demands DOJ Keep Defending His Unconstitutional Attacks On Biglaw<\/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 never signed off on that. \u2014\u00a0President Donald Trump, in comments reportedly given in the Oval Office during an \u201cangry outburst,\u201dconcerning the\u00a0Justice Department withdrawing\u00a0from its defense of his executive orders targeted against Perkins Coie, WilmerHale, Susman Godfrey, and Jenner & Block. Per White House press […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":145782,"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-145781","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-jZiIcq.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145781","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=145781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}