Jenner and Block law firm filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Friday that sought to block an executive order signed by President Donald Trump last week that went to the security authorizations of their lawyers and essentially closed any interaction with the federal government.
“The order threatens Jenner, but also its clients and the legal system itself,” said the firm on Friday in its demand. “Our Constitution, from top to bottom, prohibits the government attempts to punish citizens and lawyers based on the clients they represent, the positions they advocate, the opinions they express and the people with whom they associate.”
Jenner and Block is now the second of the five companies led by Trump to present a legal challenge against what he describes as a blatant executive order “unconstitutional”, after a successful effort of the law firm Perkins Coie so that a federal judge temporarily blocks a similar order that attacked him about his representation of the then candidate of the Hillary Clinton 2016 president campaign.
The lawsuit, filed at the Federal Court on DC Friday, accuses the Trump administration of participating in a radical campaign to intimidate the main law firms they represented or once counted among their individuals that has labeled with its political enemies.
President Donald Trump shows an executive order signed by announcing tariffs on car imports at the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, on March 26, 2025.
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“These orders send a clear message to the legal profession: to leave certain adverse representations to the government and renounce the critics of the administration, or suffer the consequences,” said the demand. “Orders also try to press companies and individuals to question or even abandon their associations with their chosen lawyer and relax bringing legal challenges.”
The presentation occurs in the middle of a crisis that has taken over other signatures of “great laws” in Washington, while the main lawyers discuss whether to fight, reduce an agreement or remain silent wondering if they will be indicated below.
On Thursday, Trump signed another executive order addressed to Wilmerhale, citing his hiring of former special lawyer Robert Mueller and two of his main deputies, after having investigated the ties of the 2016 Trump campaign with Russia.
In a statement that reacted to the order, a Wilmerhal spokesman said they planned to search “all appropriate remedies to this illegal order.”
