Federal judge calls Trump’s order targeting prominent law firm a ‘shocking abuse of power’
In a blatant decision, a federal judge prevented a new executive order from President Donald Trump punishes a prominent law firm Fif up a lawsuit against Fox News To enhance the wrong claims of fraud in the elections.
Lauren told. Alejhan, a spokesperson for the bench in Washington, DC, the courtroom on Tuesday, that Trump’s order targeting the law office, Suzman Jodfrey, was part of “personal revenge”.
Alejhan said: “Our constitution will see that this is a misuse of a shock of power,” Alejhan said.
The legal battle around Susman Jodfrey is part of an intense effort by Trump to target his critics and other enemies who imagine with presidential notes and Executive orders Legal experts and former Ministry of Justice officials said this benefit from the authority of the Ministry of Justice and other federal agencies to punish its opponents.
Among a wide range of Those targeted by Trump in recent weeks: multiple Large law officeS, which he defied or managed in court, Former assistants He challenged him during his first term, and the people who are bound by Tesla’s agent. Trump also ordered the Ministry of Justice to drop all suspended investigations on January 6, 2021, from riots in Capitol in the United States.
Trump’s actions are a comprehensive departure from a voluntary base that Republican and Democratic presidents have supported since the Watergate scandal. After that, the president appeared Richard Nixon was incorrectly found to the Ministry of Justice Investigations, lawsuits and notes To punish or distort his competitors.
President Gerald Ford agreed and succeeded him that the president would decide to enforce the wide law and the legal priorities of the Ministry of Justice. However, the Prosecutor and the Prosecutor of the Ministry of Justice define individuals and organizations that must be investigated based on the facts and laws concerned.
This rule has never been dedicated to the law, and legal experts and former officials of the Ministry of Justice say that Trump has moved quickly to undermine him in the first three months in his post.
“If these measures are not destroyed by the independence of the Ministry of Justice, she is certainly undermining them,” said Elijah Summan, a liberal legal scholar at George Mason University and the Kato Institute. “Worse, by targeting the opponents of the political president for investigation … they threaten freedom of expression and possibly civil freedoms.”
Somman and other legal experts said they believe that Trump’s executive orders related to law offices are also unprecedented and also designed to silence the president’s critics.
White House spokesman Harrison Fields has been disputed that Trump dictates investigations into the Ministry of Justice.
He said: “The Ministry of Justice is completely independent independent of the president.” “They are running their own offer.”
Fields said Trump had not interfered in a criminal case. “There is no actual example that the president is participating in one way or another in a criminal case,” he said.
Fields did not ignore that the Public Prosecutor Pam Bondi and her team are implementing the president’s extensive political priorities. “The President’s Prosecutor works,” he said. “It is not known to sing them off the book of the songs itself.”
A Bondi spokesman declined to comment. Bondi supporters and Republican Trump He praised their performance In his position and they said they are behaving properly.
Targeting law firms and former assistants
Suzman Jodfrey, the Houston -based company that represents voting systems for dominion voting machinery, guaranteed A settlement of $ 787 million From Fox News in 2023.
Dominion has filed a lawsuit accusing the network of unimaginable plots of bonding on the company’s voting machines “falsifying” the 2020 presidential elections against Trump.
Alejhan’s rule is temporarily ruled by Trump, which called for the abolition of federal contracts held by Suzman Jodfrey and its agents. It also prevented its employees from entering federal buildings and canceling their government security permits.
The decision came after a lawyer represented by Suzman Jodfrey, Donald B.
“We are sliding very quickly to the abyss here,” said Ferry, a former Obama administration lawyer.
On the same day that Trump issued the executive order against Suzman Jodfrey, A. Presidential memo Bondi’s directing to review Chris Krebes’s behavior when he was the Supreme Cyber Security Officer in Trump’s first state. After the 2020 elections, Trump Kribes launched after Trump’s wrong claim that the race was stolen from him.
Trump also signed Presidential memo The Minister of Internal Security directed to review the activities of Miles Taylor as a government employee. Taylor Anonymous notes wrote This criticized Trump’s dealings with classified documents and other behavior during his first term.
The next day, Bondi stated at the televised cabinet meeting that Trump ordered her to give priority to attacks on Tesla agents owned by Elon Musk, and the President of Duwaij and one of the largest donors for campaigns in Trump.
“There will be no negotiations in your guidance,” Bondi said. “They are all looking for 20 years in prison.”
Trump replied, “This is great.”
Trump’s efforts to punish Susman Jodfrey have followed the previous executive orders targeting Several law firm companies. Trump also issued a presidential memorandum last month to authorize the Public Prosecutor and the Minister of Internal Security to present law firms that file lawsuits that he considers “trivial”.
Bondi directed to Recommendation penaltiesIncluding the termination of federal contracts for law federal and federal contracts for their customers, in addition to canceling lawyers’ ability to obtain security permits or enter federal buildings. Steve Bannon, Trump’s close ally, The target said It was to force companies to get out of work.
For fear of losing large numbers of customers, multiple law firms have reached settlements with Trump that require them to provide tens of millions of dollars in free legal representation for reasons that Trump supports. Suzman Jodfrey and many other companies went to the court and asked the judges to declare Trump illegal actions.
Legal scientists have said that Trump’s executive orders targeting law firms are designed to intimidate companies to refuse to represent people and the reasons that do not agree with them.
Arms accusations
Trump and his allies claim that the then President Joe Biden had the weapon of the Ministry of Justice against him. They have repeatedly accused Biden, the white house of the prosecutors of the urgent Ministry of Justice, to be harsh in Trump and their disability in Biden’s cases and his son Hunter Biden.
White House spokesman Trump rejected the idea that the then -law of Justice was Merik Garland, independent of the White House, and described the demand as “smoke and mirrors.”
Despite the investigations conducted by the Republican committees in Congress, no specific evidence has highlighted that Garland had incapable the investigations of a private lawyer from Trump or the investigations into Biden or Hunter Biden.
Former Garland assistants said he did not bring great pain from the White House mission and Biden, especially after Garland was appointed private lawyers to investigate Trump, Biden and Hunt Biden. They added that Garland deliberately reduces his public and private interactions with Biden.
Stephen Gillers, an expert in legal ethics at the University of New York University, said that Trump, not Biden, violated the standards. Gillers pointed out that the executive orders and notes issued by Trump leave each step of the operation – determining the crime of the individual or the potential organization, and decided whether they are guilty and harm the punishment – which is controlled by Trump and his assistants.
“Trump behaves as a public prosecutor, a legislative council and a judge.”
