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We're going to be talking about a pretty significant decision from Judge Barrell Howell of the

Federal District Court of Washington, D.C. happened last night, overnight, basically, a 102-page ruling.

It involved Trump's attacks on big law firms, and it was a decidedly big smackdown on the

administration. Before we get to that, subscribe to the feed. We appreciate all your help in growing

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me working on a Saturday with crazy kids behind me. All right. So basically, I just want to

talk about this because this has been one of the bigger storylines if you just care about the

issue of institutional acquiescence to Trumpism. So the background here is that fairly early on in his administration, Donald

Trump made clear that he was going to go after law firms that he viewed as adversarial to him.

And the first big firms were Paul Weiss and Perkins Coe. Perkins Coe is one of the big D.C.C.

Paul Weiss is an institution. And they chose kind of divergent paths.

Paul Weiss decided that it was going to go and craft a settlement with Trump.

They ended up doing so. I think they gave him about $40 million in free pro bono services

on causes that they agreed to. Perkins Cooey decided, no, they're going to fight it. And they

became one of four firms that have filed lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of the

executive orders that Trump has issued against firms. Now, in all told, Trump's gone after

like almost a dozen or so firms, maybe more, a little bit less.

I can't, I don't have the exact number. I know that at least nine of those firms have cut

deals with Trump like Paul Wace, but really like the first one was Paul Weiss that set the

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