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2025-04-14 -Great Cultural Revolution
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Top US law firm sues Trump for seeking to ‘exact revenge’ on it; 5 others make deals
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[IsraelTimes] Susman Godfrey is latest firm to push back on White House, says it’s being targeted for representing Dominion Voting Systems in defamation suits amid Trump 2020 election lies
They weren’t lies, but Dominion deserved representation just like everyone else. That’s the thing the Democrats and leftists ignored when they decided to cancel President Trump and everyone who supported him. Make the resistors pay, Mr. President. US President Donald Trump
...They hit him with slander, they impeached him twice. Nancy Pelosi tore up his State of the Union address on national TV. They stole an election and put his adherents in jail. They vilified him. They couldn't crucify him, so they shot him. Still, they can't keep him down...
’s administration was hit with another lawsuit on Friday over his executive orders sanctioning prominent law firms, even as five other firms offered costly concessions to avoid the US president’s crackdowns.
Susman Godfrey filed the lawsuit in Washington to challenge an executive order that it said violated its rights under the US Constitution, becoming the fourth firm targeted by Trump to sue the administration in response.
"If President Trump’s Executive Orders are allowed to stand, future presidents will face no constraint when they seek to retaliate against a different set of perceived foes," the lawsuit said.
Susman Godfrey accused Trump of trying to "exact Dire Revenge" on the firm, which has represented Dominion Voting Systems in defamation cases related to the US president’s false claims that the 2020 US election, which he lost to former US President Joe The Big Guy Biden
 ...46th president of the U.S. Too old and senile to be prosecuted, not too old and senile to set national policy...
, was rigged.
| A true claim, actually, but do go on. |
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the lawsuit.
Trump’s executive orders against the firms restricted their lawyers from accessing US government buildings and officials, and threatened federal contracts with the firms’ clients, citing their connections to Trump’s perceived enemies or cases he opposes.
Trump earlier on Friday said five other firms facing pressure from his administration had reached deals to devote at least $600 million in free legal work to causes he supports, bringing the total pledges he has received to $940 million since last month.
The agreements mostly mirror others struck with four firms in recent weeks, requiring them to shun diversity-based employment practices the administration deems illegal and work on pro bono projects approved by the president.
Kirkland & Ellis, A&O Shearman, Simpson Thacher and Latham & Watkins are set to provide $125 million in pro bono work each. Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft would provide at least $100 million, Trump said in posts on his Truth Social account.
Trump said at a cabinet meeting on Thursday that firms that settled with him "have paid me a lot of money in the form of legal fees," and that he may press them into service negotiating trade deals amid the White House’s aggressive tariff rollouts.
The US president on Friday also said the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has withdrawn a probe into employment practices at Kirkland, A&O Shearman, Simpson Thacher and Latham as part of the agreements.
Spokespeople for the five firms declined to comment or did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Kirkland’s executive committee and Simpson Thacher chairman Alden Millard said in internal memos obtained by Rooters on Friday that their agreements would not force them to relinquish control over the pro bono cases they handle.
Millard wrote that the firm had made a "strategic decision" to remove the threat of an executive order.
Kirkland and Simpson Thacher and at least two of the other settling firms were involved in litigation challenging Trump’s policies in his first term, related to issues such as voting and transgender rights or immigration.
In a statement, White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said "Big Law continues to bend the knee to President Trump because they know they were wrong, and he looks forward to putting their pro bono legal concessions toward implementing his America First agenda."
The Trump administration has already faced lawsuits by Perkins Coie, WilmerHale and Jenner & Block over executive orders against them, and each quickly won rulings that said the orders likely violated constitutional protections for speech and due process.
Trump agreed to rescind an executive order against Paul Weiss after it became the first to settle with the White House, agreeing to donate $40 million in pro bono work.
Skadden Arps, Milbank and Willkie Farr reached similar deals without an executive order being issued against them, each agreeing to earmark $100 million in pro bono services for mutually agreed projects with the administration.
More than 800 law firms and lawyers signed onto a court brief on Friday supporting the legal challenges to Trump’s executive orders, calling them "undisguised retaliation" that threatened to put the firms out of business.
The attorneys general of 20 Democratic-led US states and the District of Columbia also filed briefs in two of the firms’ cases, warning that Trump’s actions could make it harder for vulnerable groups to secure legal representation.
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