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Al Jazeera Staff

Judge strikes down Trump’s executive order targeting law firm Perkins Coie

President Donald Trump arrives to give a commencement address at the University of Alabama on May 1 [Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Photo]

A United States district judge has struck down an executive order from President Donald Trump that targeted the law firm Perkins Coie over its representation of his Democratic election rival Hillary Clinton.

On Friday in Washington, DC, Judge Beryl A Howell issued a five-page order declaring the executive order unconstitutional.

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