All four Big Law firms fighting President Donald Trump’s executive orders will make their arguments against the directives on the same day, an appeals court ruled Friday.
Perkins Coie, Jenner & Block, WilmerHale, and Susman Godfrey will make oral arguments after briefing the court from March 6 to April 10, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ordered. The four cases will be consolidated into one, it said.
The four firms won their request to file separate response briefs. They had argued that they should be able to make separate arguments because their cases involve different facts and laws.
The firms last year won injunctions against the orders, which restricted the access of lawyers at the firm to classified materials and government buildings, and also threatened federal contracts of their clients. Trump’s Justice Department appealed. The president targeted the four firms because of their connection to legal actions against him that he said weaponized the justice system.
The appeals court said arguments will take place on the same day and before the same judicial panel as another case involving a Trump-targeted lawyer: national security lawyer Mark Zaid.
Zaid’s representation of a whistleblower whose allegations led to Trump’s first impeachment caused the president to target Zaid with security clearance revocation. The Justice Department had requested a pause on the four firms’ litigation until the court ruled on Zaid’s case or for the law firm cases to be combined.
The case is Jenner & Block LLP v. DOJ, C.C.D.C., 25-05265, 2/6/26
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