Using the law to target enemies. To prevent enemies from getting lawyers. All out in the open. Important for courts and bar associations to respond. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... - ThreadSky

segalmr.bsky.social • 2 days ago

Using the law to target enemies. To prevent enemies from getting lawyers. All out in the open.

Important for courts and bar associations to respond.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/addressing-risks-from-perkins-coie-llp/

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levich34.bsky.social•2 days ago

Good thing the Republicans have a committee to fight weaponizing government...... wait, what!??!

mcatherinel.bsky.social•1 day ago

https://youtu.be/wxiMrvDbq3s?si=jLU994sjIxQYemtC

janeleecomiskey.bsky.social•2 days ago

A law firm discriminated against white guys in their hiring practices? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

janeleecomiskey.bsky.social•2 days ago

In all seriousness, this is a truly insane official White House statement on the official White House website.

NOT NORMAL so let’s don’t normalize it… or accept it!

irmam.bsky.social•2 days ago

Mob boss running the country

dirkadams.bsky.social•2 days ago

This is terrible

migcorreia.bsky.social•2 days ago

Perkins Coie is going to sue the US for 100 billion and it is going to win. Trump just called for the destruction of a private corporation. America has fallen.

alpacatech.bsky.social•2 days ago

The courts can't do anything to stop them. The court's enforcement tool is the DOJ and the DOJ is fully compromised by Trump.

n3rdykttn.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yeah but wouldn't or couldnt think also target actively sitting ppl so theyd have motive for selc survival to strike it down.

alpacatech.bsky.social•2 days ago

The DOJ would be responsible for charging anyone and they are owned by Trump. Even if charged, Trump has unfettered pardon power

stephhicks.bsky.social•2 days ago

I wonder what my father, a former partner at Perkins Coie, and Trump voter, thinks about this. 🤷🏼‍♀️

petestphil.bsky.social•2 days ago

I only know one employee, a Trumper. Wondering their thoughts. It is all about revenge for Felon Trump.

elanc.bsky.social•2 days ago

"Using the law"? I think you should rephrase that. Breaking the law to target enemies, would be more accurate.

nickdefab.bsky.social•2 days ago

This is what the legacy of John Roberts will be.

planetabsurdia.bsky.social•2 days ago

It’s all problematic, but holy crap on Section 4, which will permit large law firm investigations using civil rights law as pretext.

jmatphins.bsky.social•2 days ago

Who are the evil minions that are actually writing this fascist stuff? Can we subpoena them?

raginpagan.bsky.social•2 days ago

Probably written by Alliance Defense Fund extremist hate group and manifested by Tony Perkkkins Family Kkkouncil.

jmatphins.bsky.social•1 day ago

Is he the one who was connected to Kkkaroline Leavitt? Did they work today her?

jmatphins.bsky.social•1 day ago

*together

raginpagan.bsky.social•1 day ago

No idea. It’s a cult.

raginpagan.bsky.social•2 days ago

Heritage Foundation “post constitutional” hate group

strangetown.bsky.social•2 days ago

This is basically payback isn't it? The nasty, petty, vindictive scumbag.

barefootsmith.bsky.social•2 days ago

File complaints with state Bar licensing bodies for every single lawyer who’s complicit in these unconstitutional moves. Start with Edward J Martin Jr. (attach letter from Georgetown Law Dean), and keep going. Every. single. one.

saj72.bsky.social•2 days ago

Attn: DC #lawsky:

FYI, Trump/Bondi loyalists are currently making a bid to take over the DC Bar: Her brother is running for President and Alicia Long (who I believe is US Attorney Ed Martin's chief deputy right now) is running for Treasurer.

whatajlp.bsky.social•2 days ago

Mr. Bondi is running against me. Please share this information and vote for me during the election period of April 15 through June 4, 2025 - ballots will be sent out to eligible DC Bar members by email. My candidate statement is here:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dianeseltzer_the-seltzer-law-firm-attentive-practical-activity-7300699831763652608-jroe?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&rcm=ACoAAABjt6kB38TA3mOtzeMFPfxCrJtU9XlQADQ

saj72.bsky.social•2 days ago

Posted by @securitylaw.org

liberal-g.bsky.social•2 days ago

For fucks sake. Did people forget that they outlined EVERYTHING in Project 2025.

westcoast-tj.bsky.social•2 days ago

https://www.project2025.observer/

melaniewasserman.bsky.social•2 days ago

very helpful, thank you

chitown70.bsky.social•2 days ago

More on the retribution tour.

jeffwinmill.bsky.social•2 days ago

Wow

thegruntle.bsky.social•2 days ago

It’s almost like they want to make legal illegal. 🤔

linimentcake.bsky.social•1 day ago

If legal is illegal, then nothing is legal and everything is anarchy. That means we're not obligated to follow any of what they say is legal...They might want to think long and hard about that.

citizentara.bsky.social•2 days ago

Hey guys, another wanna-be fascist executive order just dropped.

melissjpeltier.bsky.social•1 day ago

This is the famous Trump divorce technique, in which he consults with every power divorce lawyer in a state so the ex can’t hire them.

jenkers.bsky.social•2 days ago

Is targeting a company like this even lawful?

edwardericsonjr.bsky.social•2 days ago

nope

bowreader.bsky.social•2 days ago

Dick the Butcher, Henry VI, Part II, Act IV, Scene II:

The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

macwhy.bsky.social•1 day ago

Right now, lawyers are practically the only force we have against an admin run amok. If for about the last 10 yrs 'we' had nobody raising cane, we'd be like Russia. Yeah, that's extreme. But our congress critters are not yet out there, I can't be there...so Legal folks are there bustin' their assex.

bowreader.bsky.social•1 day ago

Agreed, and it's been true since at least the Bard's day. The last bastion . . .

rashaverak58.bsky.social•2 days ago

And he can’t be prosecuted for it. I find myself saying that a lot these days.

anzygz.bsky.social•2 days ago

Communist playbooks of the 30's through the crumbling of the Soviet Union. Use law, trials, semblance of normal legal proceedings... the infamous political trials preceded by purges of those seen as "disloyal"

edowd.bsky.social•2 days ago

Wow! Another unbelievable threshold crossed.

ccdude8.bsky.social•2 days ago

Time for someone to fall out of a 35th story Trump Tower window.

1215gator.bsky.social•2 days ago

It’s an outrage. Here is an earlier one the WH put out against Covington for representing Jack Smith.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/25/politics/jack-smith-covington-burling-security-clearances-trump/index.html

sdbwarnedyou.bsky.social•2 days ago

This. Is. Not. How. The. Law. Works.

letthemeatbrioche.bsky.social•2 days ago

apowhichiapi.bsky.social•2 days ago

I cannot wait for the lawsuit, and the amicus briefs that are gonna be filed on this

This is absolute weaponization of the department of Justice and the intelligence community against political rivals

mikedeey.bsky.social•2 days ago

And preventing lawyers from entering Federal courthouses if it’s deemed to be in the “best interest” of the U.S.

brightandbeautiful.bsky.social•2 days ago

Written in the form of a royal edict from the king! Outrageous. He is not empowered to issue a court order. I can't think of a term for this, well, whatever it is.

wan2bncr.bsky.social•2 days ago

Unbelievable!

matunos.bsky.social•2 days ago

"to the extent permissible by law" doing so much work there

ebfortin.bsky.social•2 days ago

And do what? A letter that they're "concerned"? A lawsuit? He controls everything and Congress let him do whatever he wants. He's installing fascism. Playing by the rules won't make him go away.

fleurishfolk.bsky.social•2 days ago

Why are people surprised by this? That's what he said he'd do. Seriously, stop thinking like your rational selves and read up on how madmen take power and abuse it. There is a dictator's playbook and he's following it word for word.

torven42.bsky.social•2 days ago

Citing an EO titled "Ending the Weaponization of the Federal Government" in this is some of the most 1984, goodthink bullshit I have ever seen in real life.

edgrapenutzimm.bsky.social•2 days ago

I compete against Perkins Coie. In this instance, I stand with them. Hire them, spend money there. Perkins is a very good firm. Trump is a despicable thug. Stay strong Perkins Coie!

counterpoint4.bsky.social•2 days ago

bowreader.bsky.social•2 days ago

Is the concept "'illegal' DEI practices" defined anywhere? So, DEI practices are criminal acts, now?
Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

counterpoint4.bsky.social•2 days ago

I think it's one of those "eye of the beholder" things ... and if you're totally blind to the Constitution, US statutes and laws of the land ... you can make believe it to mean whatever you damn well please it to be ...

bowreader.bsky.social•1 day ago

"I know it when I see it". USSC Justice Potter Stewart, 1964, Jacobellis v Ohio.

debfynn.bsky.social•2 days ago

Is this within the law to do?

segalmr.bsky.social•2 days ago

In my opinion, no. Among other things, it violates the First Amendment because it discriminates against the law firm based on its perceived viewpoint.

hugh-jassle.bsky.social•2 days ago

No. But there's no clear idea on how to enforce stopping it.

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