RBGG is proud to join more than 800 other law firms nationwide in signing amicus briefs in Jenner & Block LLP v. U.S. Department of Justice et al., United States District Court for the District of Columbia, Case No. 1:25-cv-00916, and Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP v. Executive Office of the President et al., United States District Court for the District of Columbia, Case No. 1:25-cv-00917 challenging Executive Orders issued by the White House targeting these law firms.
The briefs were authored by former U.S. Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli, Jr. of Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP. The unconstitutional Executive Orders —like the four other similar ones targeting other law firms in recent weeks—impose severe penalties on the firms due to their past work, including revoking security clearances and denial of access to federal buildings and facilities. A copy of the Jenner & Block brief can be found here and a copy of the WilmerHale brief can be found here.
As explained in the amicus briefs:
“The looming threat posed by the Executive Order at issue in this case and the others like it is not lost on anyone practicing law in this country today: any controversial representation challenging actions of the current administration (or even causes it disfavors) now brings with it the risk of devastating retaliation. Whatever short-term advantage an administration may gain from exercising power in this way, the rule of law cannot long endure in the climate of fear that such actions create. Our adversarial system depends upon zealous advocates litigating each side of a case with equal vigor; that is how impartial judges arrive at just, informed decisions that vindicate the rule of law.”
Today’s briefs ask the Court to grant the two law firms’ motions for a permanent injunction enjoining the March 6 Executive Order, noting that it and other recent ones “pose a grave threat to our system of constitutional governance and to the rule of law itself.”