A federal judge on Wednesday pushed a lawyer from the Department of Justice to show how President Donald Trump’s order targeting law firm WilmerHale could stand up to legal scrutiny.
Deputy associate attorney general Richard Lawson said sections 2,3 and 5 of the executive order were not punishment and Judge Richard Leon replied, “But how is it not?”
Judge Leon of the US District Court District of Columbia is being asked by WilmerHale to grant summary judgment to the law firm, which would strike down the order as unconstitutional without proceeding to a full trial. He did not issue a ...
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