Are law firms involved in politics fair game? | Sergio R. Karas

By Sergio R. Karas ( April 4, 2025, 1:19 PM EDT) -- President Donald Trump issued a memorandum titled “Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court,” which threatens sanctions and other unspecified actions against attorneys who represent asylum seekers or who litigate against the Trump administration’s policies regarding illegal aliens. The memo makes the assertion that immigration attorneys are acting improperly in their efforts to represent people in an increasingly complex and restrictive immigration system. It also ordered Attorney General Pam Bondi to recommend revoking attorneys’ security clearances or terminating law firms’ federal contracts if she deems their lawsuits against the administration are “unreasonable” or “vexatious.”...
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