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Mike Masnick
@masnick.com

Also today on Techdirt, I wrote about Judge Howell's order issuing a permanent injunction blocking Trump's attempt to drive Perkins Coie out of business. She even calls out the law firms that capitulated.

Techdirt@techdirt.com

Judge To Trump: No You Can’t Just Kill All The Lawyers You Don’t Like In an unprecedented 102-page ruling that methodically dismantles the Trump administration's executive order targeting the law firm Perkins Coie, Judge Beryl Howell has issued a permanent injunction that goes far beyond her…

techdirt.comJudge To Trump: No You Can’t Just Kill All The Lawyers You Don’t LikeIn an unprecedented 102-page ruling that methodically dismantles the Trump administration's executive order targeting the law firm Perkins Coie, Judge Beryl Howell has issued a permanent injunction that goes far beyond her initial temporary restraining order. The ruling represents a stark rebuke of what the court calls an "overt attempt to suppress and punish certain viewpoints" through the targeted destruction of a law firm that represented Trump's political opponents.

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Izquierda
@izquierda22.bsky.social

See this is the thing I don't get with this. Yes, he can in fact kill all the lawyers he doesn't like. He has a fully functioning military and fucking nuclear weapons. Judges seem to confuse "can't" and "shouldn't" as concepts.