Perkins Coie asked a federal judge in D.C. to reject President Trump's executive order sanctioning it over its hiring practices and legal work for Democrat Hillary Clinton, calling the measure a threat to the firm and the legal profession more broadly.
"The Constitution does not permit our elected leaders, from any party, to punish lawyers by fiat for representing clients who oppose their political agendas," attorneys for Perkins Coie at Williams & Connolly said in a court filing. "It would set a grave precedent for our Republic if the order were allowed to stand."
Perkins Coie said a permanent injunction against Trump's order was necessary to help maintain existing clients and to attract new ones. The firm said that if Trump's order were left in place "it would put the firm's solvency and very existence at risk."
The filing came just hours after Milbank became the fourth major U.S. law firm to reach an agreement with the Trump administration. Trump said the terms reached with the firm require it to perform $100 million in pro bono legal services on mutually agreed causes such as helping veterans and combating antisemitism. Milbank Chairman Scott Edelman told the firm that "the only commitments that we have made to the Government are those that we are happy to make."
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