The lawyer for President Donald Trump’s vendetta against law firms returned to court Wednesday with what has become his hallmark strategy: a merry-go-round of non-answers.
Do law firms need to make deals with Trump, Judge Beryl Howell asked, to avoid executive orders? “I can’t speak to that,” attorney Richard Lawson replied.
Are the deals written down anywhere? “I have not been privy to this,” Lawson answered. Has the president achieved $1 billion in deals yet? “I do not know.”
Like Drew Ensign, the Justice Department lawyer representing the government in closely-watched court battles over deportations, Lawson has largely been left ...
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