On March 6, 2025, President Donald J. Trump issued an executive order that amounts to an illegal broadside assault against a prominent Seattle, Washington, law firm, Perkins Coie, which has in the past engaged in litigation against the corrupt interests of the President. This Order came on the heels of a February 25, 2025, executive order that revoked the security clearances of attorneys with a prominent Washington, D.C. law firm, Covington and Burlington, that provided legal services to former U.S. Department of Justice Special Counsel Jack Smith and whose members have engaged in litigation efforts against the President’s organized criminal activities.
Perkins Coie has since filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Communications Commission, the Office of Management & Budget, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Office of Personnel Management, the General Services Administration, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the United States of America, and, in their respective official capacities, Pamela J. Bondi, Brendan Carr, Russell T. Vought, Andrea R. Lucas, Charles Ezell, Stephen Ehekian, and Tulsi Gabbard in connection with Trump’s executive Order.
The Perkins Coie lawsuit specifically charges that the President’s executive order “is an affront to the Constitution and our adversarial system of justice. Its plain purpose is to bully those who advocate points of view that the President perceives as adverse to the views of his Administration, whether those views are presented on behalf of paying or pro bono clients. Perkins Coie brings this case reluctantly. The firm is comprised of lawyers who advocate for clients; its attorneys and employees are not activists or partisans. But Perkins Coie’s ability to represent the interests of its clients—and its ability to operate as a legal-services business at all—are under direct and imminent threat. Perkins Coie cannot allow its clients to be bullied. The firm is committed to a resolute defense of the rule of law, without regard to party or ideology, and therefore brings this lawsuit to declare the Order unlawful and to enjoin its implementation.”
The purpose of Trump’s orders against Perkins Coie and Covington Burlington is not only to exact revenge, which the President admits, but is an attempt to intimidate and threaten any law firm or individual attorney from representing any client or anyone who opposes the personal or political interests of the, regardless of how corrupt or criminal the interest may be. As the Perkins Coie lawsuit specifically alleges, Trump is actually applying this unconstitutional pressure against the entire legal community by:
Expressing the blatant revenge motive of the President’s assault on the legal community, Trump suggested, to the derisive laughter of his Oval Office minions, at the Covington Burlington order signing celebration that the pen he used to sign the Order against the law firms should be sent to Jack Smith.
Donald Trump is not only a rogue president as his executive orders and foreign policy decision-making demonstrated over the past two months, but he is also a deranged individual using the powers of the American presidency like a Mafia Don just like Roy Cohn, the Mafia-connected attorney, and political fixer, schooled him to be during Trump’s formative years as a struggling public showman.
Trump’s full frontal revenge assault is much more than an unconstitutional abuse of executive power; it is an egregious personal attempt to undermine the rule of law—a cherished concept of this nation’s Democracy for 250 years—to rule with unchecked power. He is not just a presidential bully with this attack on the rule of law but an arrogant dictator, as he describes himself, like his murderous thug role model, Russian President Vladimir Putin.
As a law firm, we have a professional interest in what is being done to our legal community, Perkins Coie and Covington Burlington. We believe that every law firm and attorney in this country should, at this crucial moment in the nation’s political history, have the courage to denounce Trump’s assault on our profession.
Our message to the President, therefore, is this:
We will not bend to pressure; we will not bow to threats; we will not succumb to fear; we will not abandon our professional duties; we will represent those in need of representation (regardless of their station in life), and, most importantly, we will always speak truth to power, irrespective of who the holder of that power may be.
We cannot see what is in your mind, Mr. President, but let us be one of the many who have told you that you are not “King of America” any more than the Gulf of Mexico is the Gulf of America. You may believe in your corrupted heart that your power is unlimited, but the U.S. Constitution will always be bigger and more potent than your perceived sense of control.
The only place where your executive orders against Perkins Coie and Covington Burlington belong is in the same toilet where you tried to flush down the classified documents you stole from the White House.
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