Judge significantly broadens scope of injunction blocking 'unconstitutional' Trump executive order targeting law firm

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Source: Law & Crime

Jun 28th, 2025, 3:06 pm


A federal judge on Thursday expanded the scope of an injunction issued against one of President Donald Trump's executive orders targeting a Big Law firm – granting a request from the law firm itself. The ruling puts the kibosh on a squabble between the law firm and the government over the reach of the court's earlier nullification.

On March 27, the 45th and 47th president signed an Executive Order entitled "Addressing Risks from WilmerHale" which — like many similar such orders — accused the Los Angeles-based law firm of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, popularly stylized as WilmerHale, of "conduct detrimental to critical American interests" and which aimed to cut its employees out of the federal government.

On March 26, WilmerHale filed a 64-page complaint. The government, in turn, moved to dismiss the lawsuit entirely, turning the dispute into a battle over motions for summary judgment.

On May 27, Senior U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon, a George W. Bush appointee, issued an emphatic ruling for the plaintiffs in the form of a 73-page memorandum opinion featuring no fewer than 27 exclamation points — used to express disdain for what the court views as the severity of the constitutional violations in Trump's order. In volubly chiding language, the judge termed the attack on WilmerHale "null and void" for violating the U.S. Constitution.

Read more: https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/necessary-to-prevent-manifest-injustice-judge-significantly-broadens-scope-of-injunction-blocking-unconstitutional-trump-executive-order-targeting-law-firm/

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Full headline: 'Necessary to prevent manifest injustice': Judge significantly broadens scope of injunction blocking 'unconstitutional' Trump executive order targeting law firm

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https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143428308
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https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143475805

(highlighted thread directly references the request that the judge eventually granted per the OP)

[msongs]

1. a thousand points of light. ooops wrong bush. way to go judge nt

[Mz Pip]

2. What will SCOTUS do??

This is a specific injunction. It doesn’t affect every law firm in the whole country. Their objection to the Birthright Citizenship one was that it was too broad.

Let’s see them come up with an objection to this.