Donald Trump went after one of America's top law firms. Its decision to fight back took just two hours

Exactly, I think it's funny that the law firms that didn't back down also retained two major clients (Boeing and Amazon) that you would expect to be automatically on team Trump, and that career DOJ lawyers just said, this is dumb fuck this I'm retiring rather than being humiliated trying to argue this dog shit in court.

The thing about bullies is they will take whatever you're willing to give, but they usually can't win a fight without psychological intimidation and large numbers backing them up.

Him and 500 law firms filed an amicus brief stating that the courts and the rule of law need to stand up to this out of control executive branch.

Now it's up to the courts to decide if the law bends the knee.

Fighting trump?

You get my business!

This is very funny to me:

In a hearing on April 23, US District Judge Beryl Howell, who is overseeing Perkins Coie's case, appeared incredulous at the government's arguments. She subjected Richard Lawson, a Justice Department lawyer, to a barrage of often sarcastic questions about the scope of the executive order, brushing aside some of his positions as "hyper-technical legal arguments that may have no merit."

On the docket, meanwhile, the administration is outgunned.

The two lawyers representing the government are Chad Mizelle, US Attorney General Pam Bondi's chief of staff, who worked in the first Trump administration and at a pair of elite law firms, and Lawson, who joined the Justice Department after a stint at a conservative nonprofit founded by Trump aide Stephen Miller.

Most of their legal arguments rely on constitutional interpretation of unchecked executive authority. This is actually the argument of a very prominent legal scholar and professor of constitutional law at Harvard.

While they've been calling everyone around them bureaucratic elitists, they've now jumped into the game very confidently but totally dependent on this argument only to have a judge essentially say, this may make for a good publication on legal theory but essentially has no basis in reality 🤣

That's just objectively untrue. Some might have, sure, but many firms joined the fight immediately. Don't suggest nobody else came to their aid when that is just not the case.