Earlier this month on Fox News, President Donald Trump announced a new plan.
We have a lot of law firms that we're going to be going after
because they were very dishonest people.
They were very, very dishonest.
His plan is to go after big law firms.
The president signed a memo suspending the active security clearances of lawyers from a.
Firm called Covington and Bur.
In this chapter of Donald Trump's promised retribution,
he has signed an executive order against a law firm called Perkins Coie.
President Trump issued another executive order purporting to punish yet another law firm,
this one, Paul Weiss.
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order targeting Chicago based law firm Jenner and Block.
The White House says the law these executive orders could have massive detrimental consequences for some of the nation's biggest law firms.
Here's our colleague Erin Mulvaney, who covers legal affairs.
It could just make you bleed clients pretty much right away, almost immediately.
And as these executive orders were coming out, what was the response from lawyers in those firms?
Shock and fear, for sure.
Within those firms.
It was a pretty dramatic move that could really destroy these businesses.
So law firms have a lot of reason to be afraid for their business