Declaration of Professor Bruce A. Green in Support of Motion for Temporary Restraining Order

Key Excerpts

• The Executive Order is inconsistent with, and interferes with, settled understandings of the separation of powers and, in particular, judicial regulation of the legal profession.
• Professional conduct rules recognize that a lawyer must “represent a client zealously and diligently within the bounds of the law,” D.C. Rules Rule 1.3(a)…. The Executive Order will interfere with this fundamental obligation of lawyers because it will chill Perkins Coie and other law firms from representing clients zealously and diligently, for fear of being branded pariahs by the federal government.
• This form of regulation by presidential whim… threatens to undermine the judicial regulation that requires lawyers to represent clients zealously and not to subordinate clients’ interests to and lawyers’ own self-interest.