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‘The authoritarian playbook’: Trump targets judges, lawyers … and law itself

Attacks on key US institutions seek to stifle dissent, exact revenge and subordinate them to the president, experts say

The Guardian - US

White House buoyed by capitulation of major law firm attacked by Trump

Paul, Weiss’s chair hung former partner out to dry after a series of attacks on US legal community by president

The Guardian - US

Top Democrat-affiliated law firm offers $40m in legal services to Trump administration as part of deal to end executive order

A federal judge paused enforcement of a similar order against another top firm, citing ‘viewpoint discrimination’

The Independent UK

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Judge temporarily blocks Trump order punishing law firm tied to Clinton

Beryl Howell rejects argument that Perkins Coie is national security risk and says tactic ‘sends chills down my spine’

The Guardian - US

Law firm sues over Trump executive order that seeks to suspend security clearances

A law firm targeted by President Donald Trump over its legal services during the 2016 presidential campaign has sued the federal government over an executive order that seeks to strip its attorneys of security clearances

The Independent UK

Trump confirms retribution campaign against law firms that clash with his agenda

The president says his administration is ‘going after’ law firms he claims are ‘dishonest’ and ‘bad for the country’

The Independent UK

Trump hit a law firm with an executive order severely limiting the government from working with it. The same firm represented Hillary Clinton's campaign

A spokesperson for the law firm called it “patently unlawful.”

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Trump Using Exec Orders to 'Scare' Law Firms Away From Representing His Rivals, Former US Attorney Says

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

Latin Times

Trump's Executive Order Strips Security Clearances From Lawyers At Democrat-Linked Firm Perkins Coie

"This is an absolute honor to sign. What they've done is, it's just terrible," Trump said as he signed the order. "Weaponization — you could say weaponization against a political opponent — and it should never be allowed to happen again."

International Business Times

DEI opponents are using a 1866 Civil Rights law to challenge equity policies in the workplace

Opponents of diversity programs are increasingly banking on an 1866 civil rights law meant to protect Black people from economic exclusion as a way to challenge corporate diversity and equity policies as well as funding to Black-owned businesses

The Independent UK

The Next Target in the War on Affirmative Action? Law Firms

The move to weed out equitable hiring is part of a much longer history of exclusion in both the US and Canada

The Walrus

China tells foreign law professors to prove they’ll obey Xi

China appears to be requiring foreign law professors to submit their syllabi to ensure they are following a doctrine President Xi Jinping has been pressing across the nation’s society to cement his control.

Tribune News Service

Texas Pete Hot Sauce the Latest Victim in Exploding Trend of Cynical False Labeling Lawsuits

A handful of law firms are behind a spike in class-action lawsuits claiming consumers are harmed by opaque, half-full macaroni boxes and "all natural" fiber supplements.

Reason

Donald Trump v. Hillary Clinton Opinion

The court agrees with the defense position that "[w]hatever the utilities of [the Amended Complaint] as a fundraising tool, a press release, or a list of political grievances, it has no merit as a lawsuit."

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"SCOTUS Rejects Negligence Standard in 'Pill Mill' Cases"

From T. Markus Funk (a legal scholar, former prosecutor, and my erstwhile coauthor) at Sean Solis, both at Perkins Coie, in Bloomberg Law: The US Supreme Court issued a significant decision in its Controlled Substances Act (CSA) jurisprudence as applied to the nation's opioid epidemic. At issue in Ruan v.…

Tribune News Service

Fusion GPS asks judge to keep privileged Clinton campaign emails private

NEW YORK — Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign said its communications with a firm that did opposition research into then-candidate Donald Trump’s Russia ties should be kept out of a related criminal case.

The Independent UK

DNC, Clinton campaign agree to Steele dossier funding fine

Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee have agreed to pay $113,000 to settle a Federal Election Commission investigation

Reason

Comparing U.S., English, and German Self-Defense Law

T. Markus Funk (a partner at Perkins Coie and a scholar of, among other things, self-defense law) and I published an article on this subject at Bloomberg Law last week; I thought I'd reprint it, with Bloomberg's permission. The material on English and German law is Markus's contribution, and the…

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