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The Trump administration has decided to drop its prolonged court fights against four law firms with ties to Democrats, after it had sought and failed to cut out the firms’ access to the federal government as part of an apparent retribution campaign by Donald Trump.

The cases had been some of the most shocking attempts at retribution by Trump for his own past legal issues, with Trump aiming at large and well-known firms with prominent lawyers who had ties to Democratic administrations and the party.

Other firms under threat of similar Trump executive orders cut deals with the administration and changed their approach, especially by shifting the political leanings in the pro bono work they were willing to do, from liberal causes to more conservative ones.

Though the executive orders didn’t survive in court, they have widely curtailed large American law firms’ willingness to oppose the administration and represent progressive causes publicly.

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[–] desmosthenes@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

more taco things

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago

Chilling effect achieved.

[–] Lasherz12@lemmy.world 19 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe the Bar association should give them all the Rudy treatment.

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Won't happen. We're officially in the period of no repercussions for the Epstein Class.

[–] Paragone@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

That is terrifying:

it means that the "nuclear" option is coming, shortly, & civilrights won't mean anything, then.

( I think it'll be the invoking of the Insurrection Act, then using his de-naturalization law to remove citizenship from all non-Republicans, instantly giving all non-Republicans to ICE, as "illegals" )

He never gives-up, he just progresses other ways .. & the pseudojournalism isn't doing more than sensationalism/distraction/normalization, now, so this is going to "surprise" them all.

All dictators do a PURGE, in order to "clear the decks" of restraint/threats, & their legal-liberty is directly-proportional to the completeness of that purge.

& the Republicans have been working-on & fantasizing-over their PURGE plan, for years, openly..

This is bad.

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[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

Narcissists don't forgive. Ever. He is a textbook example.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 7 points 13 hours ago