Democrats Demand Answers From Top Law Firms That Caved To Trump's Wishes [View all]
Source: Huff Post
Apr 22, 2025, 03:04 PM EDT
WASHINGTON — Key Democrats sent scathing letters to five prominent law firms demanding details on the lucrative deals they cut with President Donald Trump to avoid being attacked by him, accusing them of being “complicit” in his efforts to break laws. “We write today regarding President Trump’s April 11, 2025, announcement that Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP (“Cadwalader”) reached an agreement with President Trump in order to avoid executive orders targeted at your firm,” reads a letter to one of these firms, from Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) and Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.).
“Your capitulation puts you in the distasteful company of several other large law firms who have decided to permit President Trump to suppress their speech and dictate who they can and cannot take as clients in blatant violation of the rights guaranteed to all Americans by the First, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments of the United States Constitution,” they said. “Your agreement makes you complicit in efforts to undermine the rule of law and to turn private attorneys into President Trump’s personal law firm, ready to do whatever he decides,” they continue. “The American people and Congress deserve transparency with respect to the President’s ongoing assault on constitutional rights and the rule of law.”
Cadwalader is one of nine top law firms that have collectively agreed to provide Trump with nearly $1 billion in free legal services, in exchange for the president not abusing his power to punish them by stripping them of federal contracts or security clearances for employees. Trump announced his deals with five of these firms earlier this month.
Raskin and Blumenthal said Tuesday that they wrote to five of these firms last Friday, demanding details relating to who facilitated the deals they cut with Trump and what terms they agreed to. They give the firms until April 28 to provide responses to the House Judiciary Committee and the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. Raskin and Blumenthal are the top Democrats on these committees, respectively.
Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/democrats-law-firms-caved-trump_n_6806aecee4b06d0beefcfb3f
Link to Senator Blumenthal and Rep. Raskin PRESS RELEASE - Blumenthal & Raskin Demand Transparency & Accountability from Big Law Firms as Trump Continues Assault on the Rule of Law
Link to LETTER (PDF) - https://docs.google.com/viewerng/viewer?url=https://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/athena/files/2025/04/22/6807c2dde4b09fc23f9205d5.pdf
(letter also available in a PDF viewer at the OP article link at the bottom of the page)
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