A DC federal judge on Friday temporarily barred the Trump administration from enforcing sections of an executive order targeting law firm WilmerHale.
The firm showed “a substantial likelihood of success” on its First Amendment objections to order provisions that restrict lawyers’ access to federal buildings and cut government contracts for WilmerHale clients, Judge Richard Leon of the US District Court for the District of Columbia wrote. Leon blocked the government from enforcing those provisions.
The judge declined to freeze a provision of Trump’s March 27 order scrapping WilmerHale lawyers’ security clearances.
“We appreciate the court’s swift action to preserve our ...
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