President Donald Trump has signed a decree today that has ordered agencies to suspend safety authorizations and access to federal lawyers from Jenner & Block.
Jenner & Block is a large law firm with a Washington office, DC, which is part of several leading and politically loaded cases, and has several lawyers from the courtroom, regulatory lawyers and convention specialists in its partnership. The law firm previously employed Former prosecutor Andrew WeissmannWho directed the successful proceedings of Trump’s campaign manager in 2016, Paul Manafort, as one of the best survey prosecutors in Russia.
In the executive decree, Trump says that Jenner & Block “abandoned the highest ideals of the profession, tolerated the” law “and abused his professional practice to initiate activities that undermine justice and the interests of the United States. “The executive decree specifically highlights Weissmann’s links with the company.
This decision is Trump’s latest example by making a political vendetta that he has against certain companies that have represented or linked to his perceived enemies. A Washington federal judge recently declared a similar prescription against the law firm Perkins Coie is illegal, restaurant the access of this cabinet. But the White House continues to consider the other major law firms in the city, and other restrictions had been ordered against the Covington & Burling and Paul Weiss firms, which concluded an agreement with Trump.
Jenner & Block has participated in the past few weeks in some of the emergency proceedings contesting Trump’s executive actions, seeking to prevent administration from reducing funding for medical research to universities, to defend a non -profit organization involved in a climate subsidy program that Trump managers are investigating and to fight for access to sex care for minors.
In addition to claiming that Jenner & Block is engaged in “partisan representations to reach political ends” and accusing the discrimination cabinet against its employees by race, the order stipulates that the law firm was “delighted to re -enlist Weissmann after the Mueller investigation.
“Andrew Weissmann is the main culprit compared to this company?” Trump asked Will Scharf, an assistant who presented his order to the White House.
“There is one of the many reasons we think that this decree is justified,” said SCHARF.
“It’s a villain,” said Trump, giving his signature.
The law firm has published a statement this evening in response to the decree.
This message was updated with a declaration of Jenner & Block.