A former US Attorney is claiming that executive orders by the Trump administration to bar law firms from working with the federal government are seeking to scare them, leading them to refrain from representing the president's political rivals.
Barb McQuade, now a professor at the University of Michigan and a NBC/MSNBC legal analyst, posted a recent Washington Post article detailing the latest actions against a law firm, in this case Perkins Coie, which represented Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Democratic National Committee during the 2016 presidential race. It also contracted with the research firm that produced the Steele dossier, a document alleging connections between Trump and Russia. The two lawyers mainly involved in that investigation are no longer with the firm.
