WASHINGTON (CN) — A D.C. Circuit panel seemed likely Thursday to further block a set of executive orders President Donald Trump issued early in his administration targeting four major law firms that represented his perceived political enemies.
The three-judge panel heard arguments in the E. Barrett Prettyman Courthouse’s ceremonial courtroom and appeared skeptical that Trump’s targeting of firms Perkins Coie, WilmerHale, Jenner & Block and Susman Godfrey amounted to a discretionary national security decision that courts are generally barred from reviewing.
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