363 Law Professors Amicus Brief in Support of Plaintiff

Key Excerpts

• Targeting Perkins Coie for representing clients and espousing views the President dislikes is viewpoint discrimination, plain and simple.
• The Executive branch has no constitutional authority to use executive orders as a cudgel to beat the American legal system into submission.
• The challenged Order names only one law firm, but in so doing, it dangles a Sword of Damocles over all those who refuse to place loyalty to the President above the interests of their clients and the law. It seeks to destroy a functional bar that ensures the government follows the law, substituting instead a bar that is, at best, reluctant to challenge the government, and, at worst, one that is a plaything of the party in power.

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