President Trump yesterday rescinded an executive order targeting prominent law firm Paul Weiss,

after that firm agreed to drop its DEI policies and to provide $40 million in pro bono

work for Trump-aligned causes. It's the latest in a series of punitive actions the president

has taken targeting the legal community. John Yang has more.

Amna, the president targeted firms that either were connected to the criminal cases brought against

him or represented Democrats, including Hillary Clinton. The orders revoke security clearances

and ban their employees from government buildings. The Paul Weiss deal came after a federal judge blocked a similar order against another big firm,

Perkins Cooey, saying it's likely unconstitutional.

Last week, hundreds of associates at big firms signed an open letter,

calling on their employers to defend their colleagues and the legal profession

and condemn what they called

Mr. Trump's intimidation tactics. Rachel Cohen was an organizer of that letter, and yesterday she

quit her job as a financial associate at Skadden, which is one of the highest grossing law firms in the

country. Rachel, yesterday, when you quit, you shared your resignation letter with your colleagues,

and I want to read a little bit of it. You said that this is a moment that demands urgency.

Whether we are failing to meet it because we are unprepared or because we don't wish to

is irrelevant to me and to the world where the outcome is the same. What was it about this moment that led you to quit?

Well, I've been working on a lot of advocacy that did not require me to quit a job that I

enjoyed and was very good at.

But the Paul Weiss decision to capitulate to the Trump administration's attempted coup,

because that is what we are experiencing right now.

The president issuing an executive order over a temporary restraining order issued by a district

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