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13. 'Great villains': Law firms that 'groveled' to Trump scorched as revenge bid dropped
Mon Mar 2, 2026, 08:15 PM
9 hrs ago

The law firms who did NOT cave to trump won. The law firms who caved to trump have suffered some major losses of clients and partners. Now that the DOJ has dropped the silly lawsuit trying to enforce trump's executive orders, I am hoping that the coward law firms will reconsider their "agreements" with trump.

'Great villains': Law firms that 'groveled' to Trump scorched as revenge bid dropped

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Ben Franklin Warned Us (@herobenfranklin.bsky.social) 2026-03-03T00:45:16.500Z

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-law-firms-2675539138/

President Donald Trump's Justice Department backed down on Monday on a huge monthslong legal battle, no longer defending a series of executive orders that attacked prominent law firms that represented anti-Trump clients in the past.

It's a huge victory for the rule of law, voting rights attorney Marc Elias told MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace — but also a huge black eye for the law firms that made deals with Trump to avoid similar regulatory action against them.....

"I think today is going to be remembered as one of the most important days for the opposition movement against Donald Trump," said Elias, who runs both the Elias Law Group and the media outlet Democracy Docket. "Today was the day that the law firms that stood up tall and said to Donald Trump, we will not bow down to you. We will not obey. We will not bend the knee. Today is the day that the Department of Justice ... [stopped fighting] the victory that the law firms had against the Department of Justice. And what that means for everyone listening is that the four law firms that stood their ground, they can proceed on and have government contracts and enter buildings and do all of the things that Donald Trump tried to deny them."

At the same time, he said, "For the 9 or 10 law firms that capitulated and collaborated, they still have to provide free legal services to Donald Trump."

"They still have to look at themselves in the mirror and explain why they settled a case that wound up getting dismissed, and that the Department of Justice then dropped," said Elias. "They have to explain to their clients why anyone would hire them when they were so cowardly, when they lacked even the basic spine expected of any lawyer, no less one who charges thousands of dollars an hour, and they settled a claim and groveled in the Oval Office rather than standing up to fight."


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anyone bending at the knee for this fascist fuck needs to go out of business Skittles 14 hrs ago #1
Gathering as many "references" that I can find right now to add to the OP! BumRushDaShow 14 hrs ago #3
Trump DOJ gives up on order punishing law firms: report LetMyPeopleVote 14 hrs ago #2
WHO would want to do business with those who immediately caved to Trump? Skittles 14 hrs ago #4
Apparently those who caved not only lost business BumRushDaShow 14 hrs ago #5
can you imagine how humiliating it would be for any true patriot Skittles 14 hrs ago #6
They can join the ranks of the infamous BumRushDaShow 14 hrs ago #7
Or "Not what they believed they were agreeing to?" vanlassie 13 hrs ago #9
So, I wonder how the firms Miguelito Loveless 14 hrs ago #8
MaddowBlog-Justice Department to throw in the towel on Trump's campaign against law firms LetMyPeopleVote 10 hrs ago #10
I started my career at Wilmer more than 40 years ago. onenote 8 hrs ago #14
Those who bent the knee weren't exactly advertising their skill in the law, were they? muriel_volestrangler 10 hrs ago #11
Kirkland & Ellis is facing new questions about its deal with President Donald Trump, including the part that Trump advis LetMyPeopleVote 10 hrs ago #12
'Great villains': Law firms that 'groveled' to Trump scorched as revenge bid dropped LetMyPeopleVote 9 hrs ago #13
Trump's attempt to strip several progressive law firms and individual lawyers of security clearances and federal contrac riversedge 1 hr ago #15
Can these law firms now sue Trump Old Crank 12 min ago #16
It sure seems he can dump on others Old Crank 12 min ago #17
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