Trump signs the executive order aimed at the new law firm, Jenner & Block

On Tuesday, President Trump began a new attack on lawyers, identifying a company in which an former prosecutor who investigated him once worked while the White House pursues revenge against the profession that blames his legal problems.

An executive order of Mr. Trump focused on Jenner & Block, an important white shoe company that once used Andrew Weissmann, a long -standing deputy to Robert S. Mueller III, who as a special consultant investigated Trump in his first term for possible ties with Russia.

The order underlined the extent that the president, who had to face four criminal accusations after leaving the assignment in 2021, now aims to exhaust a high price by anyone who is associated with the investigations passed on him.

Days before, Trump has significantly expanded his campaign of retaliation against the lawyers they don’t like, issuing a large -scale memorandum that threatened to use the government’s power to punish any company that, in his opinion, unjustly challenge his administration. Trump has declared that his efforts will clean up a legal profession that has been contaminated by politics and non -ethical behavior.

On Tuesday at the White House, Mr. Trump called Mr. Weissmann a “bad boy” and said he would also declassified further documents from the investigations of Russia, known as a fire hurricane, which began in 2016.

After serving in a senior role for the investigations of the special consultant, Weissmann spent many years as a television expert, strongly criticizing the conduct of Mr. Trump. Mr. Weissmann, who left Jenner & Block in 2021, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The executive order signed on Tuesday declares that many great law firms “undertake actions that threaten public security and national security, limit constitutional freedoms, degrade the quality of the American elections or undermine the American princes of rock.”

The order also criticizes companies for having done a pro bono work or that represent indigent customers or who have limited financial resources to afford lawyers, accusing that this work is often for what he called “destructive causes”.

Jenner & Block, decreed by the Order of the President, “has abandoned the highest ideals of the profession” and therefore its employees should not have security authorizations, contracts of the federal government, access to the buildings of the Federal Government or be hired by the government.

In a declaration, a spokesman for the law firm described his historical history of paid work and pro bono and stressed that a federal judge had temporarily blocked the administration from imposing penalties on at least one company subject to the orders of Trump, Perkins Coie. “We remain focused on the service and safeguarding the interests of our customers with the dedication, integrity and skills that have defined our company for more than 100 years and will pursue all the appropriate remedies”, continued the declaration.

The accusations of Mr. Trump against the company range from the staff to the politician, claiming that Jenner & Block hired Mr. Weissmann after working on Mueller’s investigations, which Trump called “completely unjustified”. The order also accuses Mr. Weissmann of bad conduct.

Last week, one of the targeted companies, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison, has made an agreement With the administration to spare himself from a punitive order that Mr. Trump had issued.

As part of this agreement, the law firm agreed to provide legal work for a value of $ 40 million in support of Mr. Trump to combat anti -Semitism on university campuses, as well as other issues.

The president embarked on his campaign against lawyers by denouncing what he calls “Lawfare” or “Armization” of the legal system against him.

He and his allies have long affirmed that the Democrats have affirmed improper control over the offices of ministries to bring cases against him. The current and former law enforcement officers affirm that these accusations are without foundation and that what the president and his ups and tall are making is eliminating the ability of institutions such as the FBI and the Department of Justice to pursue such cases again.

His constant list of objectives in the legal world has led to a heated debate among the lawyers on the best way to answer. Some abruptly criticized the president’s actions and Paul’s decision, Weiss to cut an agreement rather than fighting in court, while Perkins Coie has chosen to do.

Vanita GUPTA, who is a lawyer for civil rights and former official of the Department of Justice, declared Saturday that Trump is attacking “the very basis of our legal system threatening and intimidating the parties in question that aim to consider our government responsible towards the law and the Constitution”.

The executive branch “should neither fear nor punish those who challenge him,” said Mrs. GUPTA, “and should not be the referee of what is frivolous – there are protections in place to face it. This moment requires courage and collective actions, not capitulation, between the lawyers and the legal profession”.

Trump has also signed an executive order that declassifies some documents with a Russian investigation, while ordering that two separate categories of documents from that work remain classified.