Five more members have joined the Shyster Surrender Squad:
President Trump announced a series of agreements with five major law firms Friday, signing deals for some $600 million in pro bono work as the Trump administration continues its pressure campaign on the legal profession.
Kirkland & Ellis, Allen Overy Shearman Sterling, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, and Latham & Watkins all agreed to perform $125 million each in pro bono legal work — the highest figure seen yet in any of the agreements brokered by Trump with various legal firms.
In exchange, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) will withdraw letters sent to each of the firms asking questions about their hiring practices and implying firms’ efforts to diversify their workforce could violate employment laws.
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, which was not contacted by the EEOC, signed a deal with the Trump administration for $100 million in pro bono work. That firm previously employed Todd Blanche, Trump’s former defense attorney and deputy attorney general, but forced him to leave when he took on Trump as a client.
None of the firms immediately responded to requests for comment.
The deals bring to nine the number of firms that have struck agreements with Trump in the wake of numerous actions targeting major law offices.
Trump signed orders stripping personnel at four major law firms of their security clearances.
Attorneys at Perkins Coie, Jenner & Block, and WilmerHale were also barred from entering federal buildings while the government was ordered to suspend any contracts with the firms.
Those three have sued, each scoring initial victories blocking much of Trump’s executive orders from taking effect.
Trump has separately signed an order broadly targeting the legal profession, encouraging the Justice Department to sanction attorneys who file “frivolous, unreasonable, and vexatious litigation.”
Critics have said the orders are designed to chill advocates and nonprofits across the country who routinely challenge Trump policies in court, as well as the major law firms who help back such litigation with pro bono work...
Would you want a law firm representing you that won't even defend itself against a clearly un-Constitutional action?
In almost every professional field, when asked to bend the knee to America's would- be dictator Malignant Fascist, a remarkable number have done so, abandoning honor, principle, and allegiance to American values, tradition, and law. We need to remember them, because they can never be trusted again.
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