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Trump Expands Attacks on Law Firms, Singling Out Paul, Weiss

March 14, 2025
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President Trump on Friday opened a third attack against a private law firm, restricting the business activities of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison just days after a federal judge ruled such measures appeared to violate the Constitution.

White House officials said the president signed an executive order to suspend security clearances held by people at the firm, pending a review of whether such clearances are consistent with the national interest. The order also seeks to sharply limit Paul, Weiss employees from entering government buildings, getting government jobs or receiving any money from federal contracts, according to a fact sheet provided by the Trump administration.

The text of the order was not immediately available, but a White House fact sheet said the order intended to punish the firm generally, and one of its former lawyers specifically, Mark F. Pomerantz.

Mr. Trump mentioned Mr. Pomerantz by name in an angry speech Friday at the Justice Department, where he complained about prosecutors and private lawyers who pursued cases against him, calling them “really bad people.” Mr. Trump, in the same speech, claimed he was ending the “weaponization” of the Justice Department, though his move against the firm showed he will continue using his power to exact retribution on his opponents.

Mr. Pomerantz had tried to build a criminal case against Mr. Trump several years ago when he worked at the Manhattan district attorney’s office. The White House announcement called Mr. Pomerantz “an unethical lawyer” who tried to “manufacture a prosecution against President Trump.”

Representatives for the firm did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

This week, a federal judge temporarily barred the Trump administration from carrying out many of the punishments detailed in an executive order against the Perkins Coie law firm. The rationale behind that Trump order, Judge Beryl A. Howell of Federal District Court in Washington said, sent “little chills down my spine.”

Legal experts have warned that Mr. Trump’s efforts to use his presidential powers to retaliate against certain law firms set a dangerous precedent that threatens not just the ability of lawyers to do their jobs, but also the ability of private citizens to obtain lawyers to represent them.

In the Perkins Coie order, Mr. Trump had sought to block the firm’s lawyers from entering government buildings, conferring with government officials or getting government jobs. During a hearing before Judge Howell this week, a lawyer representing Perkins Coie said the order, were it allowed to stand, would kill the firm.

Mr. Trump said he issued the order because of Perkins Coie’s role representing Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential campaign and because of its connection to a dossier of unsubstantiated allegations against him.

Mr. Trump had previously signed a memo stripping security clearances from any lawyers at a different firm, Covington & Burling, who were involved in representing Jack Smith, the former special counsel who pursued two separate indictments of the president in 2023.

The post Trump Expands Attacks on Law Firms, Singling Out Paul, Weiss appeared first on New York Times.

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