In Trump’s Fight With Perkins Coie, the Richest Firms Are Staying Quiet
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In Trump’s Fight With Perkins Coie, the Richest Firms Are Staying Quiet

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines They are among the nation’s richest law firms, and they employ some of the most loquacious litigators. But with their industry under attack from President Trump, most of these leaders of Big Law are not speaking up to defend one of their own….

Granddaughters of a Paul Weiss Patriarch Deplore the Firm’s Trump Deal
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Granddaughters of a Paul Weiss Patriarch Deplore the Firm’s Trump Deal

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Two weeks ago, Brad Karp, chairman of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, announced that President Trump would dismiss an executive order aimed at the law firm in return for commitments that included $40 million in pro bono legal services for causes Mr….

White House Takes Highly Unusual Step of Directly Firing Line Prosecutors
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White House Takes Highly Unusual Step of Directly Firing Line Prosecutors

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Two longtime career prosecutors have been suddenly fired by the White House, in what current and former Justice Department officials called an unusual and alarming exercise of presidential power. In recent days, the prosecutors, in Los Angeles and Memphis, were dismissed abruptly, notified…

Trump Moves to End Federal Union Protections Across Government
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Trump Moves to End Federal Union Protections Across Government

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Trump instructed a broad swath of government agencies on Thursday to end collective bargaining with federal unions, a major escalation in his effort to assert more control over the federal work force. Mr. Trump framed the order as critical to protect national…

Opinion | America’s Most Powerful Law Firms Won’t Stand Up to Trump
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Opinion | America’s Most Powerful Law Firms Won’t Stand Up to Trump

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Covington & Burling, the white-shoe Washington-based firm, was first to be targeted by the president. Its offense: having provided pro bono legal work for Jack Smith, who led the federal prosecution against Mr. Trump for his attempt to overturn the results of the…

Opinion | Trump Won’t Win a War Against the Courts
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Opinion | Trump Won’t Win a War Against the Courts

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Trump has wasted no time in his second term in declaring war on the nation’s federal judiciary, the country’s legal profession and the rule of law. He has provoked a constitutional crisis with his stunning frontal assault on the third branch of…

Administration’s Details on Deportation Flights ‘Woefully Insufficient,’ Judge Says
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Administration’s Details on Deportation Flights ‘Woefully Insufficient,’ Judge Says

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines In a display of open frustration, a federal judge in Washington told the Trump administration on Thursday to explain in detail why officials had not violated an order he issued last weekend pausing the deportation of scores of Venezuelan immigrants under a rarely…

How the G.O.P. Went From Championing Campus Free Speech to Fighting It
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How the G.O.P. Went From Championing Campus Free Speech to Fighting It

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines As conservatives fought against cancel culture on college campuses, they developed a particular fondness for the First Amendment. It was un-American, they argued, to punish someone for exercising their right to speak freely. Today, however, many of those same conservatives, now in power…

How the G.O.P. Went From Championing Campus Free Speech to Fighting It
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Republicans Once Championed Free Speech on Campus. Now, Not So Much.

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines As conservatives fought against cancel culture on college campuses, they developed a particular fondness for the First Amendment. It was un-American, they argued, to punish someone for exercising their right to speak freely. Today, however, many of those same conservatives, now in power…

Trump’s Judicial Defiance Is New to the Autocrat Playbook, Experts Say
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Trump’s Judicial Defiance Is New to the Autocrat Playbook, Experts Say

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Trump’s intensifying conflict with the federal courts is unusually aggressive compared with similar disputes in other countries, according to scholars. Unlike leaders who subverted or restructured the courts, Mr. Trump is acting as if judges were already too weak to constrain his…