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Judge rules Trump executive order targeting law firm Perkins Coie is unconstitutional [View all]

Source: CBS News

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Judge rules Trump executive order targeting law firm Perkins Coie is unconstitutional

By Melissa Quinn
May 2, 2025 / 6:33 PM EDT / CBS News

Washington -- A federal judge ruled Friday that President Trump's executive order targeting the law firm Perkins Coie is unconstitutional and permanently blocked the administration from enforcing it.

In a 102-page decision, U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell ruled in favor of the firm and said Mr. Trump's directive that sought to punish it sent the message that "lawyers must stick to the party line, or else."

"Using the powers of the federal government to target lawyers for their representation of clients and avowed progressive employment policies in an overt attempt to suppress and punish certain viewpoints, however, is contrary to the Constitution, which requires that the government respond to dissenting or unpopular speech or ideas with 'tolerance, not coercion,'" Howell wrote.

She found that the executive order violates the First, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments to the Constitution.

This is a developing story and will be updated.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/trump-executive-order-perkins-coie-law-firm-unconstitutional/

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Kyle Cheney‬
‪@kyledcheney.bsky.social‬

JUST IN: Judge HOWELL rules forcefully in favor of Perkins Coie against Trump's punitive executive order, comparing him to a Shakespearean character who famously called to "kill all the lawyers" in order to amass power.

ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney.bsky.social) 2025-05-02T22:26:17.764Z

JUST IN: Judge HOWELL rules forcefully in favor of Perkins Coie against Trump's punitive executive order, comparing him to a Shakespearean character who famously called to "kill all the lawyers" in order to amass power.

https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2025cv0716-185

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From Chris Geidner:

BREAKING: Federal judge rules that President Donald Trump's executive order targeting the Perkins Coie law firm â€” the first of several such orders â€” is unconstitutional and, accordingly, "null and void."

Background at Law Dork on the original TRO in the case: www.lawdork.com/p/perkins-co...
— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) 2025-05-02T22:52:11.047Z

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Judge rules Trump executive order targeting law firm Perkins Coie is unconstitutional [View all] mahatmakanejeeves May 2 OP

There is some good news! Balatro May 2 #1

This makes me smile LetMyPeopleVote May 2 #2

Do we think he will obey? tblue37 May 3 #30

I think they'll probably appeal. I'll be surprised if they get a stay pending appeal onenote May 3 #33

That's nice JoseBalow May 2 #3

Well it might at least encourage some of the cowardly law firms BumRushDaShow May 2 #7

I STILL don't understand why they would do that Skittles May 2 #18

Well their "cloaks" have now been ripped off BumRushDaShow May 3 #28

Agree mamacita75 May 2 #9

Judge Howell has ruled for Perkins Coie, holding that Donald Trump's executive order targeting the firm was unconstituti LetMyPeopleVote May 2 #4

Thanks for the link. NT mahatmakanejeeves May 2 #5

Here is a link to the 100+ page opinion LetMyPeopleVote May 2 #8

Between Beryl Howell and Amy Berman Jackson BumRushDaShow May 2 #6

Here is the link to the 100+ page opinion LetMyPeopleVote May 2 #10

180 pages? For a ruling of constitutionality? ancianita May 2 #16

102 pages. And the district court had a lot to address onenote May 3 #27

Righteous Ruling CitizenZero May 2 #11

Someone needs to clue me in on what he does that is NOT unconstitutional. MLWR May 2 #12

Is there a Trump executive order that ISN'T unconstitutional? dchill May 2 #13

so this begs the question....... Takket May 2 #14

Yep. They aren't scared, they're collaborators. ❤️ littlemissmartypants May 2 #17

Exactly. PSPS May 2 #24

So donald, shove it. republianmushroom May 2 #15

No Shite! Cha May 2 #19

Now the ones who capitulated will have that egg on their face and moniss May 2 #20

EVERYTHING Trump is doing is illegal Bluetus May 2 #21

It just dumbfounds me that so much time has passed and he's still here ailsagirl May 3 #25

Makes it appear that law firms that kissed Donnie Dipshits ass maxrandb May 2 #22

Another judge he'll want impeached, or arrested Bayard May 2 #23

So many of Trump's executive orders have been over turned by the courts - at what point does the court 33taw May 3 #26

That isn't how the judicial system works. onenote May 3 #29

I know. But they do stop frivolous lawsuits and these seem to be no different. 33taw May 3 #31

Some of Trump's EO's have been upheld. None have been ruled "frivolous" onenote May 3 #32

I was just annoyed and know that it is not a possibility. 33taw May 3 #34