A DC federal judge on Wednesday temporarily barred the Trump administration from enforcing an executive order targeting law firm Perkins Coie.
The ruling freezes parts of President Donald Trump’s March 6 order, which threatened government contracts for Perkins Coie clients and banned firm employees from accessing federal buildings.
“That’s pretty extraordinary power for the president to exercise,” Judge Beryl Howell said during a hearing in the US District Court for the District of Columbia. The idea that the president can ban a business from a federal building if it’s operating against his interest “sends little chills down my spine,” she said.