This report is part of a series looking at how President Donald Trump has used the power of his office in his second term to challenge the boundaries the legal system puts on presidential actions.
President Donald Trump first used the power of the White House against a law firm in February, ordering a review of Covington & Burling’s government contracts because a lawyer had assisted the special prosecutor who indicted him in Florida and the District of Columbia.
Security clearances should be suspended, Trump wrote, pending a review of the lawyers’ roles and responsibilities “in the weaponization of the judicial process.”
