Trump Targets Susman Godfrey, a Regulation Agency That Represented Dominion

President Donald Trump on Wednesday added Susman Godfrey to the checklist of legislation companies he is concentrating on with the load of the White Home’s bully pulpit.

In accordance with a White Home truth sheet, Susman is being focused over what the White Home has referred to as its work to “weaponize the American authorized system and degrade the standard of American elections.”

White Home workers secretary Will Scharf described the Susman motion as much like Trump’s earlier orders concentrating on companies that both participated in fits towards him or employed former authorities attorneys who labored on Trump-related litigation when the president was out of energy. A few of Trump’s targets have been among the many largest companies within the nation, together with Perkins Coie.

Susman represented Dominion Voting Methods in its defamation swimsuit towards Fox Information, leading to a $787.5 settlement in 2023. Fox Information, Trump allies, and different conservatives repeatedly unfold unfounded rumors about Dominion’s election machines within the aftermath of Trump’s 2020 loss.

The agency additionally represents Dominion in a lawsuit towards Newsmax, one other conservative media group that promoted false conspiracy theories in regards to the election expertise firm’s function within the 2020 election. In a ruling Wednesday, moments earlier than Trump signed the chief order, a Delaware choose dominated that Newsmax defamed Dominion and that the case may proceed to trial.

The agency additionally represents The New York Instances within the publication’s copyright swimsuit towards OpenAI and Microsoft.

Trump hinted that additional legislation firm-related actions could also be coming. He advised reporters that “we now have one other 5 to go.”

To this point, Paul Weiss, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, and Milbank have all reached offers with the White Home that decision for lots of of thousands and thousands in professional bono authorized work to advance Trump administration-supported causes.

On Tuesday, a bunch of former Republican and Democratic authorities officers, represented by Susman Godfrey legal professionals, filed an amicus temporary in assist of Perkins Coie.

Perkins Coie sued the Trump administration, arguing its concentrating on of legislation companies violated the US Structure.

“The Structure didn’t make the President a king empowered to punish topics arbitrarily based mostly on animus or whim,” wrote the Susman Godfrey attorneys of their temporary.