Trump signed executive orders aimed at firms challenging his administration\u2019s priorities, roiling the legal community<\/p>\n
Donald Trump\u2019s executive orders targeting law firms and attorneys who challenge his priorities are roiling the legal community, with some capitulating to the administration\u2019s demands amid mounting pressure on the US\u2019s biggest firms to speak out.<\/p>\n
The president signed an executive order on Tuesday targeting the firm Jenner & Block<\/a> over its previous employment of Andrew Weissman, a prosecutor who worked on Robert Mueller\u2019s investigation into Trump\u2019s connections to Russia. The order came after Trump issued similar executive orders targeting three other firms \u2013 Covington and Burling, Perkins Coie, and Paul Weiss \u2013 over their representation of his political rivals.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Trump signed executive orders aimed at firms challenging his administration\u2019s priorities, roiling the legal community Donald Trump\u2019s executive orders targeting law firms and attorneys who challenge his priorities are roiling the legal community, with some capitulating to the administration\u2019s demands amid mounting pressure on the US\u2019s biggest firms to speak out. The president signed an … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}