Elon Musk reposted a story on X about lawsuits challenging the administration’s cuts to funding at the National Institutes of Health, asking, “Which law firms are pushing these anti-democratic cases to impede the will of the people?” 15/16 #Intimidation #RevengePolitics #TheUnpopulist

Trump’s inner circle has signaled it is paying close attention to which firms are taking the administration to court. 14/16
#Intimidation #RevengePolitics #TheUnpopulist

Advocacy groups and smaller law firms say it has been more difficult to recruit larger firms to help with cases against Trump, which now number more than 100. …13/16
#Intimidation #RevengePolitics #TheUnpopulist

Back-channel efforts to persuade major law firms to sign public statements criticizing Trump’s actions thus far have foundered, in part because of retaliation fears, people familiar with the matter said. 12/16
#RevengePolitics #Intimidation #TheUnpopulist

In private conversations, partners at some of the nation’s leading firms have expressed outrage at the president’s actions. What they haven’t been willing to do is say so publicly. 11/16 #Intimidation #RevengePolitics #TheUnpopulist

Last week’s order also bizarrely combines the sanctions against Perkins with an announcement of new probes targeting law firms’ hiring preferences and DEI generally, which might seem an odd jamming of two different things. 8/16 #RevengePolitics #TheUnpopulist

In an interview with Fox News that aired over the weekend, Trump promised more, saying, “We have a lot of law firms that we’re going to be going after because they were very dishonest people.” 7/16 #RevengePolitics #TheUnpopulist

For example, Perkins Coie represents more than 500 clients in more than 5,000 pending patent applications before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. 6/16 #PatentLaw #PerkinsCoie #TheUnpopulist #RevengePolitics

The executive order accuses Perkins of assorted misconduct and even criminality in representing Hillary Clinton and #Democrats but fails to mention that Trump and his allies already leveled most of those accusations in court & met with almost uniform rejection. 3/16 #RevengePolitics #TheUnpopulist

Trump in his first term was sufficiently capable of keeping things in perspective that in 2018 he appointed two Perkins Coie lawyers to federal judgeships. (As with other Big Law firms, Perkins has plenty of Republican and independent lawyers) 2/16 #RevengePolitics #TheUnpopulist

In other words, the lawyers Trump is mad at haven’t been part of the firm for several years. The actions the executive order is most steamed about, relating to the Fusion GPS/Steele Dossier affair, took place in 2016. 14/14 #RevengePolitics #TrumpCorruption #Resist #TheUnPopulist

Most of this section, which even at its height represented a small fraction of the firm’s overall business, split off a few years ago into an independent legal practice associated with attorney Marc Elias. 13/14 #RevengePolitics #PerkinsCoie #MarcElias #TheUnPopulist

For some years, Perkins Coie also maintained a famous political law/elections practice that represented Democratic Party interests and Hillary Clinton and acted adversely toward Trump in 2016 and 2020. 12/14 #RevengePolitics #PerkinsCoie #TheUnpopulist

Full-service (law firm)means that it represents corporate clients, small businesses, nonprofits, and families across a wide range of legal needs, including advisory work, litigation, and representation before government agencies. 11/14 #RevengePolitics #PerkinsCoie #TheUnPopulist

As background: Perkins Coie, the largest law firm in the Pacific Northwest, is a so-called full-service law firm with more than 1,000 lawyers. 10/14 #RevengePolitics #TheUnpopulist

That should make it everyone’s cause, especially for those of us who cherish liberty, limited government, and the rule of law. 9/14
#RevengePolitics #PerkinsCoie #TheUnpopulist

The cause of these law firms is the cause of an independent bar that’s free, willing, and able to represent clients vigorously against the federal government, its officials, and powerful candidates. 8/14 #RevengePolitics #PerkinsCoie #TheUnpopulist

Late Wednesday, federal judge Beryl Howell in Washington issued a temporary restraining order against enforcement of most of the decree, saying the penalties sent “chills down my spine,” preparing the way for a courtroom battle over a more durable injunction. 7/14 #RevengePolitics #TheUnPopulist

Trump has now made clear that his attack on the independence of the bar is not going to stop there. 5/14 #RevengePolitics #TrumpCorruption #TheUnPopulist

Undermining the independence of the legal profession to remove an impediment for exacting revenge is a standard authoritarian tactic. 2/14 #Authoritarianism #RevengePolitics #TheUnPopulist

NSMIRL with Akiva Malamet

For the most recent #NSMIRL, we sat down with @theunpopulist.net’s @akivamalamet.bsky.social to talk politics, philosophy, extreme music, and what it means to be “anarcho-friendly.” 🖤

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