Dan Barrick/NHPR Shaheen & Gordon is one among greater than 500 legislation corporations to signal on to a authorized temporary opposing President Trump’s govt orders in opposition to legislation corporations.
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New Hampshire-based Shaheen & Gordon is among the many greater than 500 legislation corporations now difficult President Trump’s latest govt orders making an attempt to dam the enterprise operations of a handful of distinguished legislation corporations who’ve executed work for his political opponents.
The corporations contend in an amicus temporary that the chief orders are an act of “authorities intrusion” into the authorized system, and needs to be completely enjoined.
“No matter short-term benefit an administration might acquire from exercising energy on this method, the rule of legislation can’t lengthy endure within the local weather of worry that such actions create,” the corporations stated.
Shaheen & Gordon seems to be the one New Hampshire-based agency that signed the amicus, based on Invoice Christie, a lawyer and shareholder with the agency.
“This struggle is coming to New Hampshire,” stated Christie. “Though Trump’s govt order is specializing in the largest legislation corporations within the nation proper now, I feel we imagine that each one legislation corporations can be topic to such a assault as time goes on, and it was essential to face up now slightly than later.”
Shaheen & Gordon has long-standing ties to native Democratic politics. The agency has recurrently supplied authorized work for the New Hampshire Democratic Celebration. Invoice Shaheen, husband of U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen and a longtime member of the Democratic Nationwide Committee, is among the agency’s founders.
Trump’s govt orders have focused a number of legislation corporations together with Perkins Coie, which has represented Hillary Clinton and different distinguished Democrats. The chief order sought to revoke safety clearances and prohibit the agency from representing authorities contractors. A federal choose issued a brief injunction blocking the order’s provisions.
An evaluation by the New York Instances discovered that not one of the nation’s 10 largest legislation corporations as measured by income signed onto the amicus temporary.
A number of the legislation corporations focused by Trump in different govt orders have reduce offers with the administration, together with offering professional bono authorized providers to causes he helps.
Christie stated it was disappointing that extra corporations, together with different New Hampshire-based corporations, didn’t signal on to the amicus temporary.
“I feel that this administration is making an attempt to manipulate by menace and intimidation, and the best way to face as much as a bully is to face as much as a bully,” he stated.
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