WilmerHale, Jenner Hit Back With Suits Challenging Trump Orders

Two law firms sued the Trump administration Friday, challenging executive orders against them that the firms say are meant to scare off opposition to the president.

Jenner & Block and WilmerHale filed separate suits in a federal court in Washington. They asked courts to block the orders targeting the firms over their ties to Robert Mueller, the former special counsel who led a probe into the 2016 Trump campaign’s alleged coordination with Russian state officials.

Jenner called the order against it “an unconstitutional abuse of power against lawyers, their clients, and the legal system,” in a complaint filed in the ...