President Trump has signed an executive order terminating security clearances of employees at Perkins Coie, the law firm that represented Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign. A spokesperson for Perkins Coie called Trump’s move “patently unlawful” and promised a legal challenge. This comes just weeks after Trump signed another executive order targeting the Washington, D.C., law firm Covington & Burling, which employs lawyers who worked in the Obama and Biden administrations and who recently aided Jack Smith, the special counsel who led investigations into Trump.
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