Judge rejects another Trump executive order targeting the legal community

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Source: AP

Updated 6:38 PM EDT, June 27, 2025


WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Friday struck down another of President Donald Trump’s executive orders targeting law firms. U.S. District Judge Loren AliKhan ruled that the order against the firm of Susman Godfrey was unconstitutional and must be permanently blocked. The order was the latest ruling to reject Trump’s efforts to punish law firms for legal work he does not like and for employing attorneys he perceives as his adversaries.

The Susman Godfrey firm suggested that it had drawn Trump’s ire at least in part because it represented Dominion Voting Systems in the voting machine company’s defamation lawsuit against Fox News over false claims surrounding the 2020 presidential election. The suit ended in a massive settlement.

Other judges in recent weeks have blocked similar orders against the firms of Jenner Block, Perkins Coie and WilmerHale. The orders have sought to impose similar sanctions, including the suspension of security clearances of attorneys and the restriction of access to federal buildings.

“The order was one in a series attacking firms that had taken positions with which President Trump disagreed. In the ensuing months, every court to have considered a challenge to one of these orders has found grave constitutional violations and permanently enjoined enforcement of the order in full,” AliKhan wrote. “Today, this court follows suit, concluding that the order targeting Susman violates the U.S. Constitution and must be permanently enjoined.”

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/trump-law-firm-executive-order-susman-godfrey-853b75ff741547e27acb4ea8b8ec8d18

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Link to ORDER (PDF) - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.279461/gov.uscourts.dcd.279461.206.0.pdf


AP effectively buried this story by putting it in tiny font on a far right column under unrelated stuff (under a ranked choice voting graph and the UVA President resigning link).

[pfitz59]

1. Any and all law firms that cave to Trump

Ought be disbarred.

[onenote]

2. How do you disbar a law firm?

[cstanleytech]

3. If a Democratic President committed the felony Trump has by doing this they would have been impeached.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. Judge permanently blocks Trump order against law firm Susman Godfrey

The firm is the fourth to successfully sue the president, with judges issuing rulings in the cases blocking and excoriating Trump’s orders.

Judge permanently blocks Trump order against law firm Susman Godfrey.

The firm is the fourth to successfully sue the president, with judges issuing rulings in the cases blocking and excoriating Trump’s orders.

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— DianaResists (@dianaresists.bsky.social) 2025-06-28T00:20:17.311Z

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/27/judge-trump-law-firms-susman-godfrey

A federal judge on Friday rejected President Donald Trump’s executive order targeting the law firm Susman Godfrey, the fourth time a judge has dismissed his attempts to punish a prominent firm for taking on cases he dislikes or hiring his perceived foes.

Trump has issued several executive orders sanctioning law firms with penalties that include losing government contracts and security clearances. Four of those firms sued to fight his actions and they have racked up an undefeated record in court, with judges issuing rulings in each case blocking and excoriating Trump’s orders.

U.S. District Judge Loren L. AliKhan ruled that Trump’s order punishing the firm was unconstitutional and protected by the free speech clause of the First Amendment, as well as the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment.

“[E]very court to have considered a challenge to one of these orders has found grave constitutional violations and permanently enjoined enforcement of the order in full,” AliKhan wrote in a 53-page opinion accompanying her ruling. “Today, this court follows suit, concluding that the order targeting Susman violates the U.S. Constitution.”

Her ruling follows similar decisions from judges who struck down Trump’s punishments for the law firms WilmerHale, Jenner & Block and Perkins Coie. Judges in those cases found that Trump retaliated against the firms for activity protected by First Amendment activity and sought to use his office’s power to cajole them into falling in line.

I have a former debate squad member and some friends at this firm. Steve Susman was an amazing man and it was his condo, I got to meet and discuss stuttering with Joe Biden.

Susman is also representing the ABA in the ABA's lawsuit against these stupid attempts to intimidate law firms.