It's not often I'd recommend non-lawyers read a legal brief, but the opening para from this one by Perkins Coie - the firm targeted by the administration in a stand-alone EO for representing clients whose views the president opposes - is readily understood. A few clips below... /1 - ThreadSky

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debpearlstein.bsky.social • 1 day ago

It's not often I'd recommend non-lawyers read a legal brief, but the opening para from this one by Perkins Coie - the firm targeted by the administration in a stand-alone EO for representing clients whose views the president opposes - is readily understood. A few clips below... /1

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debpearlstein.bsky.social•1 day ago

"Perkins Coie brings this case reluctantly. The firm is comprised of lawyers who advocate for clients; its attorneys & employees are not activists or partisans. But Perkins Coie’s ability to...operate as a legal-services business at all—are under direct and imminent threat." /2

debpearlstein.bsky.social•1 day ago

"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." /3

debpearlstein.bsky.social•1 day ago

Even China knows a functional economic system - reasonable reliance on contracts, rights to ownership in property - depends on at least the minimal function of law. Attacking lawyers for representing disfavored clients doesn't just attack opponents. It undermines the rule of law at its core. /end

debpearlstein.bsky.social•1 day ago

Of course, the brief itself is here. Now /end. https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/movayjxldva/Perkins%20Coie%20v%20DOJ%2020250311.pdf

tractenberg.bsky.social•12 hours ago

thanks so much for sharing!!

bluesky-api.bsky.social•1 day ago

Thank you

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