AG Plakin, AG Raoul, AG Campbell, and AG Brown are co-leading a coalition of 21 attorneys general in filing amicus briefs supporting two law firms, Jenner & Block LLP and Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Door LLP, that have filed lawsuits challenging unconstitutional executive orders imposing severe sanctions on the firms in retaliation for their work on causes disfavored by the Trump Administration.

“Targeting law firms and attorneys for doing their jobs and representing their clients is outrageous, unprecedented, and unconstitutional.  It is also deeply damaging to our democracy.  We will proudly stand with the lawyers and law firms who refuse to back down in the face of these blatantly unconstitutional threats. President Trump’s unlawful executive orders seek to intimidate lawyers into never crossing him in court or otherwise.  But the President and his team will not intimidate us.  We are proud to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the law firms that have chosen to call out these abhorrent executive orders instead of capitulating and cutting backroom deals with the Trump Administration.”- AG Platkin