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A divided federal appeals court upheld a freeze on President Donald Trump’s purge of federal workers while a broader legal dispute plays out on appeal.
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday struck down President Trump's executive order targeting D.C.-based law firm WilmerHale, declaring the order "unconstitutional" and permanently blocking the administration from enforcing it.
A federal judge on Tuesday struck down President Trump’s executive order targeting the law firm WilmerHale, the third such ruling deeming the president’s pointed attacks against Big
The Trump administration has made a habit of asking the high court to intervene through emergency appeals, bypassing lower courts. That’s an unusual and “amazing act of appellate practice” and a sharp departure from the norm, said Craig Green, a professor at Temple University Beasley School of Law.
Senior Judge Richard Leon of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia penned a 73-page ruling striking down Trump’s March executive order that targeted WilmerHale, a law firm the president accused of engaging in “obvious partisan representations to achieve political ends.”
A federal judge has permanently blocked another of President Donald Trump’s executive orders targeting a major law firm, calling it unconstitutional retaliation designed to punish lawyers for their legal work that the White House does not like.