The American Civil Liberties Union, as amicus curiae, has joined with a string of organizations which epmhasize free expression - such as the Cato Institute and FIRE - the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, and others have joined to support the Perkins Coie law firm which, like others, has come to oppose many of Trump's policies.
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President Trump has singled out one of the nation’s largest law firms for serious, potentially business-ending sanctions by executive fiat, citing the firm’s past representation of his political opponents and its “partisan lawsuits against the United States.” The President’s action violates fundamental First Amendment freedoms and other constitutional protections. More generally, it is an attack on the independence of the legal profession. In the weeks since this Court issued its temporary restraining order, President Trump has signed executive orders imposing similar sanctions on several other law
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