Legal Advocacy Organizations Amicus Brief in Support of Plaintiff's Motion for Summary Judgment

Key Excerpts

• By chilling lawyers from engaging in zealous advocacy on behalf of clients adverse to the Administration, the Executive Order not only infringes the protected speech and petitioning of private parties, it also deprives courts of the expert counsel necessary, in our adversarial legal system, for a full and fair adjudication of the most pressing constitutional and statutory issues.
• The Executive Order’s retaliatory attack on Perkins Coie for the firm’s constitutionally protected legal advocacy is not only a textbook First Amendment violation; it also threatens to undermine the bar’s independence, violating basic separation-of-powers principles.
• If this governmental bullying goes unchecked, the bar will swiftly lose its independence—to the detriment of litigants, courts, and public trust in the judicial process.