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Nonilex<p>Updates on <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/LawFirms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LawFirms</span></a> targeted by <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>:</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WilmerHale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WilmerHale</span></a> [employed Robert Mueller] — Judge Leon, a George W. Bush appointee, set a 4:30 PM hearing</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JennerBlock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JennerBlock</span></a> [employed Andrew Weissmann] — Judge Bates, another a George W. Bush appointee, set a 5:45PM hearing</p><p>Last Fri, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PerkinsCoie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PerkinsCoie</span></a> [worked for Hillary Clinton] got a TRO while the case moves forward.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PaulWeiss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PaulWeiss</span></a>, cut a deal w/Trump last month, promising $40M in pro bono legal services &amp; to hire an outside consultant to review employment practices.</p>
Nonilex<p>Other elite <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> firms have been hit w/similar sanctions, leaving them to choose whether to fight the orders or cut a *deal* w/ <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> to remove the restrictions, even as a judge has already blocked one of the orders because it is likely to be unlawful.</p><p>The order said Trump was in part punishing <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WilmerHale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WilmerHale</span></a> for the firm’s connections to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Mueller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mueller</span></a>, who led an inquiry that the order described as “one of the most partisan investigations in American history.”</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>autocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/tyranny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tyranny</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MafiaState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MafiaState</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>In an EO, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> hit the elite firm w/many of the same penalties that he had applied to its competitors who had taken on cases or causes he did not like.</p><p>He directed the cancellation of all govt contracts w/ <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WilmerHale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WilmerHale</span></a>, &amp; the suspension of any <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>security</span></a> clearances of its employees. The order also barred WilmerHale employees from federal buildings [Federal Court buildings fall into the category], banned them from communicating w/govt employees &amp; prevented them from being hired at govt agencies.</p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> Targets <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WilmerHale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WilmerHale</span></a>, Citing <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/LawFirm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LawFirm</span></a>’s Connection to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RobertMueller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RobertMueller</span></a></p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Mueller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mueller</span></a>, who worked at WilmerHale before retiring in 2021, had investigated the Trump campaign’s ties to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a> during Trump’s first term.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RevengePolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RevengePolitics</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>autocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/tyranny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tyranny</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MafiaState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MafiaState</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/us/politics/trump-wilmerhale-law-firm-mueller.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare&amp;sgrp=p&amp;pvid=EB968B02-59E6-44C9-B0A7-4057762D4A42" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/03/27/us/poli</span><span class="invisible">tics/trump-wilmerhale-law-firm-mueller.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare&amp;sgrp=p&amp;pvid=EB968B02-59E6-44C9-B0A7-4057762D4A42</span></a></p>