U.S. District Judge John Bates granted Jenner & Block’s summary judgment motion against the Trump administration, writing that a majority of the sections in an executive order against the firm are “null and void.”
“This order, like the others, seeks to chill legal representation the administration doesn’t like, thereby insulating the Executive Branch from the judicial check fundamental to the separation of powers. It thus violates the Constitution and the Court will enjoin its operation in full,” Bates wrote.