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Eugene

(66,791 posts)
Tue Mar 25, 2025, 03:11 PM Mar 2025

Trump signs executive order against law firm Jenner & Block

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/



Alternate link: https://news.yahoo.com/news/finance/news/trump-signs-executive-order-against-190149575.html
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Trump signs executive order against law firm Jenner & Block (Original Post) Eugene Mar 2025 OP
Stop it.......... Lovie777 Mar 2025 #1
The Trump Presidency - revenge as a virus. dchill Mar 2025 #2
Neither of your links goes to any relevant article. AmericaUnderSiege Mar 2025 #3
This one: Bengus81 Mar 2025 #5
There's something fishy about this thread. AmericaUnderSiege Mar 2025 #8
It's on all the news services. Do a search for Jenner and Block executive order Bengus81 Mar 2025 #9
What I can find isn't the issue. AmericaUnderSiege Mar 2025 #11
Both links work for me. Think. Again. Mar 2025 #26
Sorry. The the main Reuters link is corrected. The Yahoo! link is a non-paywalled alternative for that article. Eugene Mar 2025 #10
Executive orders were not designed to do this!!!! Grins Mar 2025 #4
You are correct. They aren't fucking royal decrees, but unfortunately the entire GOP (and country, really) is now Karasu Mar 2025 #17
Law firms need to band together and stop this fucking fascism....... Bengus81 Mar 2025 #6
Exactly! yellow dahlia Mar 2025 #14
Their capitulation was the green light in the eyes of this administration. They were chomping at the bit for an excuse Karasu Mar 2025 #18
The more people cave to Trump, the worse he will get. Irish_Dem Mar 2025 #7
Exactly! yellow dahlia Mar 2025 #15
Everyone is trying to save their own skin. Irish_Dem Mar 2025 #16
Shakedown: to blackmail or try to get money from someone; also to give someone a scare. (See also "protection racket") Bo Zarts Mar 2025 #12
Worse than that, this is a classic authoritarian move against the rule of law. Eugene Mar 2025 #30
Isn't there one lawyer to sue the diapers off this creep? C_U_L8R Mar 2025 #13
HEY DONALD TRUMP READ THIS.... YoshidaYui Mar 2025 #19
Where are the other law firms speaking out against this bull shit? Gimpyknee Mar 2025 #20
Mark Elias is, no GD way will he capitulate to that Mango Mussolini Bengus81 Mar 2025 #22
All these Executive Orders... GiqueCee Mar 2025 #21
This orangecrush Mar 2025 #23
I hope karma pays him a visit soon mdbl Mar 2025 #24
Virtually all of these EOs are illegal. valleyrogue Mar 2025 #31
But then... GiqueCee Mar 2025 #32
In Trump's mind he has been completely exonerated for election tampering JohnnyRingo Mar 2025 #25
TRAITOR** faults firm for past employment of Andrew Weissman. niyad Mar 2025 #27
E.O.? Or truth social? Marthe48 Mar 2025 #28
Shaking down another major law firm, for big money---again. Paladin Mar 2025 #29
Statement from Jenner & Block, one of the firms suing trump LetMyPeopleVote Mar 2025 #33
 

AmericaUnderSiege

(777 posts)
3. Neither of your links goes to any relevant article.
Tue Mar 25, 2025, 03:17 PM
Mar 2025

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

 

AmericaUnderSiege

(777 posts)
8. There's something fishy about this thread.
Tue Mar 25, 2025, 03:29 PM
Mar 2025

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."

Eugene

(66,791 posts)
10. Sorry. The the main Reuters link is corrected. The Yahoo! link is a non-paywalled alternative for that article.
Tue Mar 25, 2025, 03:34 PM
Mar 2025

Karasu

(2,003 posts)
17. You are correct. They aren't fucking royal decrees, but unfortunately the entire GOP (and country, really) is now
Tue Mar 25, 2025, 05:32 PM
Mar 2025

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

Karasu

(2,003 posts)
18. Their capitulation was the green light in the eyes of this administration. They were chomping at the bit for an excuse
Tue Mar 25, 2025, 05:33 PM
Mar 2025

to normalize this shit.

Irish_Dem

(79,769 posts)
16. Everyone is trying to save their own skin.
Tue Mar 25, 2025, 04:56 PM
Mar 2025

They want the beatings to stop.

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

Bo Zarts

(26,254 posts)
12. Shakedown: to blackmail or try to get money from someone; also to give someone a scare. (See also "protection racket")
Tue Mar 25, 2025, 03:48 PM
Mar 2025

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

(66,791 posts)
30. Worse than that, this is a classic authoritarian move against the rule of law.
Wed Mar 26, 2025, 10:11 AM
Mar 2025

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.

YoshidaYui

(44,960 posts)
19. HEY DONALD TRUMP READ THIS....
Tue Mar 25, 2025, 09:33 PM
Mar 2025

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

GiqueCee

(3,403 posts)
21. All these Executive Orders...
Wed Mar 26, 2025, 07:24 AM
Mar 2025

... 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.

valleyrogue

(2,570 posts)
31. Virtually all of these EOs are illegal.
Wed Mar 26, 2025, 10:21 AM
Mar 2025

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

(3,403 posts)
32. But then...
Wed Mar 26, 2025, 05:49 PM
Mar 2025

... 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

(20,505 posts)
25. In Trump's mind he has been completely exonerated for election tampering
Wed Mar 26, 2025, 08:02 AM
Mar 2025

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".

Marthe48

(22,711 posts)
28. E.O.? Or truth social?
Wed Mar 26, 2025, 09:25 AM
Mar 2025

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

(32,276 posts)
29. Shaking down another major law firm, for big money---again.
Wed Mar 26, 2025, 09:44 AM
Mar 2025

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

LetMyPeopleVote

(174,948 posts)
33. Statement from Jenner & Block, one of the firms suing trump
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 06:20 PM
Mar 2025

Like Joyce Vance, this statement made me smile



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