President Donald J. Trump has signed an executive order titled ‘Addressing Risks from Perkins Coie LLP,’ aiming to suspend security clearances for and curb federal interactions with the law firm due to anti-democratic activities and racial discrimination. It references Perkins Coie’s past work with Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and its hiring of Fusion GPS, “which then manufactured a false ‘dossier’ designed to steal an election”—namely the Russia hoax Steele Dossier.
The order also accuses Perkins Coie of undermining democratic elections, for instance by “work[ing] with activist donors including George Soros to judicially overturn popular, necessary, and democratically enacted election laws, including those requiring voter identification.”
The order highlights Perkins Coie’s alleged racial discrimination, stating, “In addition to undermining democratic elections, the integrity of our courts, and honest law enforcement, Perkins Coie racially discriminates against its own attorneys and staff, and against applicants,” through “percentage quotas… for hiring and promotion on the basis of race and other categories prohibited by civil rights laws.”
“Within 30 days of the date of this order, all agencies shall submit to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget an assessment of contracts with Perkins Coie or with entities that do business with Perkins Coie,” the order directs, in addition to calling for “investigations into large law firms’ compliance with non-discrimination laws” and limits on “official access from Federal Government buildings to employees of Perkins Coie when such access would threaten the national security of or otherwise be inconsistent with the interests of the United States.”
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