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Boston Globe
16-05-2025
- Business
- Boston Globe
Law firms fighting back against Trump report security clearance suspensions
Advertisement The handful of firms that did not make deals -- and were then singled out in orders that accused them of working against the country's national interest -- sued, arguing that the orders amount to blatantly illegal retaliation for representing clients and employing lawyers the president opposes politically. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up In at least one instance, a federal judge has agreed, bypassing a trial and permanently blocking the government from enforcing the terms of an order targeting the firm Perkins Coie. In the cases involving WilmerHale and Jenner & Block, judges have temporarily halted the Trump administration from implementing the orders aimed at them while litigation plays out. Even so, Paul Clement, a lawyer for WilmerHale, said in a filing that two of its lawyers had received letters informing them that their security clearances had been suspended. Advertisement 'This development underscores that the executive branch stands ready and willing to implement the executive order absent judicial intervention,' Clement wrote in a notice dated May 9. A lawyer for Jenner & Block filed a similar notice dated May 14 indicating that it had just learned one of its attorneys had their clearance suspended as well. Trump's executive orders directed agencies to essentially exile the firms from any work that runs through the federal government, such as by barring their attorneys from entering federal buildings, blacklisting them from federal contracts and taking away any security clearances held by their staff. As justification, the orders cited the fact that both firms had employed top members of the special unit that investigated Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, and the question of whether Trump had worked to obstruct that investigation. They specifically named Robert Mueller and Andrew Weissmann, who returned to those firms in the years after the investigation wound down. Both left in 2021, as lawyers for the firms have noted. Both firms have asked the respective judges in their cases to skip past a trial and decide the relatively straightforward question of whether Trump's orders are legal and should be allowed to stand. Their cases are essentially identical in nature to those brought by other firms that found themselves in a similar position, such as Perkins Coie and Susman Godfrey. When Perkins Coie received its final ruling from a judge this month, the answer to whether the president's order was lawful was an emphatic no. The ruling, from Judge Beryl A. Howell of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, compared the president's order to an attempt by a populist mob to destabilize society by rooting out the legal opposition in Shakespeare's play 'Henry VI.' Advertisement Howell's ruling also showed deep disdain for the firms that had cut deals with Trump to avoid retribution. Nine firms, including Paul Weiss; Rifkind; Wharton & Garrison; and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom preemptively offered to take on millions of dollars in free work for largely uncontroversial causes, collectively approaching nearly $1 billion. But after extracting those deals, the White House moved to consider even more intrusive terms, including enlisting them in legal fights to further Trump's agenda. This article originally appeared in .
Wall Street Journal
05-05-2025
- Politics
- Wall Street Journal
How This Conservative Lawyer Became One of Trump's Toughest Foes in Court
WASHINGTON—Clients in need of a star lawyer to battle the Trump administration are eagerly turning to one of the nation's top Republican advocates: Paul Clement, who has secured landmark conservative victories for more than two decades. Clement, who served as U.S. solicitor general for President George W. Bush, last week signed on to the legal team representing Hannah Dugan, the Wisconsin state judge the Trump administration is prosecuting for allegedly helping a Mexican immigrant avoid a courthouse arrest by U.S. immigration agents.
BBC News
30-04-2025
- Politics
- BBC News
Local elections 2025: Oxfordshire candidates split over 20mph
Driving through Oxfordshire's towns and villages, it is clear that the default speed limit for anywhere away from major roads is no longer residential areas now have a 20mph limit - a change that some love and others rollout has been happening since 2022, and the new limit is in now in place in more than 200 ahead of local elections for Oxfordshire County Council on 1 May, residents and candidates remain split on whether the 20mph scheme has been a success or a waste of money. For places to get a 20mph speed limit in Oxfordshire, a degree of local support has to be zones need the backing of both the parish or town council and the area's county have proved uncontroversial - but in larger towns in particular there has been than three quarters of people responding to a consultation on a 20mph limit for most roads in Banbury objected or expressed a review, new 20mph zones were brought in, but four routes were the limit is in place, residents we spoke to had mixed views on whether it has been a good thing for the Andrews said he thought 20mph was "too slow"."It builds up the traffic and then stops everyone from getting where they need to be as soon as possible," he Paul Clement said the benefits were huge."The difference between 20mph and 30mph in respect of safety is phenomenal," he Morris also supported the limit - but said vehicles were not respecting said: "A lot of people down here aren't actually doing 20mph they're doing a lot more." Candidates that took part in BBC Oxford's debate ahead of Oxfordshire County Council's election on May 1 were also split over were raised about the lack of Liz Brighouse said: "It really is frustrating to see roads, which should be 20mph and people are actually going on them sometimes 60 or 70mph and that really can't be acceptable."Felix Bloomfield from Reform UK said: "This is something that Thames Valley Police cannot enforce."They've told us that their 30mph speed cameras cannot be recalibrated to deal with 20mph zones. "And they don't have capacity to police with mobile cameras." Originally £8m was budgeted for the scheme, but the authority now says it will be completed in the next financial year for a total of just over have questioned if it was all money well Eddie Reeves said in the village of Cropredy there was "a new 20mph sign literally signposted on a 90 degree bend". "Now you cannot drive more than about five or maybe max 10mph," he said. "The 20mph zone, therefore, is a complete nonsense."But the Liberal Democrats and Green Party, who have been running the authority while 20mph has been implemented, defended the Democrat Dan Levy said: "I think it's been a huge benefit to the people of Oxfordshire. "Where there are 20mph zones we've seen a reduction in accidents and an increase in people cycling and walking, particularly to school."Helena Richards from the Green Party said: "If you're a pedestrian hit by a car at 20mph you are seven times more likely to survive than if you were hit by that same car at 30mph."Polls are open for the Oxfordshire County Council election between 07:00 and 22:00 on 1 May. You can follow BBC Oxfordshire on Facebook, X (Twitter), or Instagram.
Yahoo
30-01-2025
- Yahoo
Rochester man heads to trial this fall on charges connected to death of National Guard commander
Jan. 29—An 81-year-old Rochester man will head to trial in Strafford County Superior Court this fall on charges connected to a hit-and-run crash that killed the commander of the New Hampshire Air National Guard back in July. Paul Clement faces charges of negligent homicide, driving while intoxicated and conduct after an accident that caused the death of John Pogorek, 57. Pogorek, a brigadier general, was parked along the side of Crown Point Road in Rochester with his teenage son about 5 p.m. July 8 when a westbound Toyota RAV4 struck him while he was out of the vehicle. His son was uninjured. Jury selection has been scheduled for Nov. 3 with a final pretrial hearing taking place on Oct. 15. The dates were scheduled during a dispositional conference last week. Police say surveillance footage and a tip helped identify Clement, who lives on Crown Point Road, as the driver. The negligent homicide charge carries a sentence of 7 1/2 to 15 years in prison. Pogorek commanded more than 1,300 officers and airmen at Pease Air National Guard Base and was the principal adviser to Gov. Chris Sununu on the New Hampshire Air National Guard. jphelps@
