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US will enchantment resolution discovering punitive government order towards Jenner & Block violates First Modification
By Debra Cassens Weiss
July 22, 2025, 9:42 am CDT
A view of the Jenner & Block legislation agency at 353 N. Clark St. in Chicago on Might 23, 2025. (Picture by Kyle Mazza/Anadolu by way of Getty Photographs)
The federal authorities on Monday filed discover that it’s going to enchantment a federal choose’s resolution blocking a punitive government order towards Jenner & Block that threatened its workers’ safety clearances and put its purchasers’ authorities contracts in danger.
The discover follows the federal government’s resolution to enchantment a June 30 resolution blocking an identical government order towards Perkins Coie. Each selections mentioned the manager orders violate the First Modification partly as a result of they aim legislation corporations for his or her authorized work.
Regulation.com, Law360, Bloomberg Regulation and Reuters are among the many publications protecting the enchantment.
Jenner & Block and Perkins Coie are amongst 4 corporations which have obtained everlasting injunctions blocking the punitive government orders. 9 different corporations reached professional bono offers with President Donald Trump to keep away from such orders.
U.S. District Choose John D. Bates of the District of Columbia dominated for Jenner & Block in a Might 23 opinion that mentioned the manager order “raises constitutional eyebrows many occasions over.”
“Most clearly, retaliating towards corporations for the views embodied of their authorized work—and thereby looking for to muzzle them going ahead—violates the First Modification’s central command that authorities could not ‘use the ability of the state to punish or suppress disfavored expression,’” Bates mentioned.
Trump’s order referred to Jenner & Block’s profitable illustration of transgender folks and asylum-seekers, in addition to its rehiring of a prosecutor who labored on former particular counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian interference within the 2016 election. The prosecutor left the agency in 2021.
Jenner & Block issued a press release to the publications protecting the enchantment.
“The district courtroom accurately declared that Jenner’s purchasers have a proper to impartial counsel, and that the agency’s proper to characterize purchasers vigorously and with out compromise is sacred,” the spokesperson mentioned. “We look ahead to confirming this on enchantment. We are going to proceed doing what we do finest: fearlessly representing our purchasers beneath all circumstances.”
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