The Hill
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) are pressing the White House and six top law firms about alleged deals struck with the Trump administration to avoid getting targeted by executive orders for hiring lawyers and representing clients whom the president does not like.
In the letter to White House counsel David Warrington, Blumenthal and Raskin — the top Democrats on the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations and the House Judiciary Committee, respectively — noted that President Trump has targeted five law firms in recent weeks in executive orders that explicitly detail “his personal grievances which led to its issuance.”
“The retaliatory nature of these executive orders has not been even tacitly disguised,” the lawmakers wrote in their letter, noting that the orders have targeted firms with connections to cases against Trump or lawyers connected to those cases.
2025-4-6-Blumenthal-Raskin-Letter-to-Milbank“This unprecedented abuse of executive power to settle personal scores is part of a broader effort by President Trump to use the powers of the presidency to intimidate and silence his perceived enemies,” they added.
Blumenthal and Raskin wrote that the orders have tried to punish the firms by revoking attorneys’ security clearances, barring them from federal buildings, terminating any government contracts, and preventing them from seeking further government employment.
“Indeed, by seeking to intimidate attorneys and prevent them from advocating on behalf of clients and causes at odds with the President, the orders ‘cast a chilling harm of blizzard proportion across the entire legal profession,’” they added.
Blumenthal and Raskin are also asking six law firms about alleged deals they entered into with the Trump administration to avoid being targeted.
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https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5239272-democrats-press-law-firms-on-deals-with-trump/
