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

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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 — the first of several such orders — 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