Trump signs executive order against law firm Jenner & Block

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON, March 25 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday that takes action against the law firm Jenner & Block, for what a White House official described as the company's actions to weaponize the government and legal system.

"We've taken action against a number of law firms that have participated either in the weaponization of government, the weaponization of the legal system for political ends, or have otherwise engaged in illegal or inappropriate activities," said White House Staff Secretary Will Scharf.

Jenner & Block did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the order, whose text was not immediately available.

The firm was formerly home to Andrew Weissmann, a top prosecutor involved in U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russia’s meddling in the 2016 presidential election. Weissmann was at Jenner from 2006 to 2011, and returned there in 2020 after serving on Mueller’s prosecution team.

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By Mike Scarcella and David Thomas
March 25, 2025 3:13 PM EDT Updated an hour ago


Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-signs-executive-order-against-law-firm-jenner-block-2025-03-25/

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Alternate link: https://news.yahoo.com/news/finance/news/trump-signs-executive-order-against-190149575.html

[Lovie777]

1. Stop it..........

[dchill]

2. The Trump Presidency - revenge as a virus.

[AmericaUnderSiege]

3. Neither of your links goes to any relevant article.

The BBC link goes to an article about Japan, and the Yahoo link goes nowhere.

[Bengus81]

5. This one:

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-signs-executive-order-against-law-firm-jenner-block-2025-03-25/

[AmericaUnderSiege]

8. There's something fishy about this thread.

Both links in the post go nowhere relevant, and a third merely repeats the regime's claim to have issued an order while saying nothing about the nature of order because it's "not immediately available."

[Bengus81]

9. It's on all the news services. Do a search for Jenner and Block executive order

[AmericaUnderSiege]

11. What I can find isn't the issue.

[Think. Again.]

26. Both links work for me.

[Eugene]

10. Sorry. The the main Reuters link is corrected. The Yahoo! link is a non-paywalled alternative for that article.

[Grins]

4. Executive orders were not designed to do this!!!!

FAR. Beyond their intended purpose!

[Karasu]

17. You are correct. They aren't fucking royal decrees, but unfortunately the entire GOP (and country, really) is now

convinced that they are, so they are being treated as such. We live in a post-factual society.

[Bengus81]

6. Law firms need to band together and stop this fucking fascism.......

Do it now.........

[yellow dahlia]

14. Exactly!

Shame on Paul Weiss for capitulating.

[Karasu]

18. Their capitulation was the green light in the eyes of this administration. They were chomping at the bit for an excuse

to normalize this shit.

[Irish_Dem]

7. The more people cave to Trump, the worse he will get.

They are feeding the monster.

[yellow dahlia]

15. Exactly!

Why is this so hard for some to understand?

[Irish_Dem]

16. Everyone is trying to save their own skin.

They want the beatings to stop.

They don't care that the abuser will get worse and attack more victims.

[Bo Zarts]

12. Shakedown: to blackmail or try to get money from someone; also to give someone a scare. (See also "protection racket")

Protection Racket: is a scheme of organized crime where a criminal group demands regular payments from businesses or individuals, promising protection from harm in exchange for the money.

[Eugene]

30. Worse than that, this is a classic authoritarian move against the rule of law.

Yes, the shakedown benefits the Slobfather personally,
but the EO potentially blacklists lawyers from federal buildings,
including courthouses. Some law firms are already refusing
clients, as lawyers face being unable to represent them effectively.

[C_U_L8R]

13. Isn't there one lawyer to sue the diapers off this creep?

[YoshidaYui]

19. HEY DONALD TRUMP READ THIS....

FUCK YOU YOUR ORANGE SLIME BAG... FUCK OFF AND TAKE YOUR FUCKING REPUBLICAN PARTY WITH YOU!! GO TO FUCKING HELL!!

[Gimpyknee]

20. Where are the other law firms speaking out against this bull shit?

[Bengus81]

22. Mark Elias is, no GD way will he capitulate to that Mango Mussolini

[GiqueCee]

21. All these Executive Orders...

... are just a convenient euphemism for government by imperial edict. The obscenely corrupt Roberts Court has given a psychotic toddler carte blanche to ignore the law. Trump even stated unequivocally that only HE, and his servile AG, will determine what the law is. Congress was apparently too busy bowing and scraping before His Royal Malignancy to consider the implications such a remark.

[orangecrush]

23. This

[mdbl]

24. I hope karma pays him a visit soon

at least while I'm still alive to see it.

[valleyrogue]

31. Virtually all of these EOs are illegal.

The Supreme Court didn't say he could do this and make it stick. It talked only about him being criminally prosecuted and jailed.

These actions are mostly pandering to the base knowing most of these EOs are subject to court challenges.

[GiqueCee]

32. But then...

... he and his scumbag lawyers are flooding the zone, as they say, with challenges and lawsuits against TV networks, universities, charities, and anything and everything they can think of, all to keep the courts too busy to focus on his obscenely illegal gutting of everything that might actually help Americans in need, including the simple souls that voted for the sonfabitch.
I'm only a year younger than him, but I hope I live long enough to piss on his grave. I'm sure the lines will be miles long, but I'm patient.

[JohnnyRingo]

25. In Trump's mind he has been completely exonerated for election tampering

That's why he calls it the Russia Russia Russia hoax in a childish reference to Marcia Brady.
He's determined that Mueller investigated and came up empty instead of dropping the investigation because he was re-elected.

Now he's looking for retribution for being "falsely accused".

[niyad]

27. TRAITOR** faults firm for past employment of Andrew Weissman.

[Marthe48]

28. E.O.? Or truth social?

Someone is so ridiculously muddled about where to post his latest tantrum. The more felon uses e.o. to rant, the less an e.o. matters.

[Paladin]

29. Shaking down another major law firm, for big money---again.

As usual, he's not even trying to hide it.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

33. Statement from Jenner & Block, one of the firms suing trump

Like Joyce Vance, this statement made me smile

Link to tweet