Trump Coerces Another $600M from Top Law Firms in Legal Surrender

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🔴 UPDATE: April 11, 2025

Trump Coerces Another $600M from Law Firms in Legal Surrender

The regime’s assault on the legal profession has entered a new phase. On Friday, Donald Trump announced that five of the country’s most prestigious law firms—Kirkland & Ellis, Latham & Watkins, Simpson Thacher, A&O Shearman, and Cadwalader—have capitulated to his demands, pledging a staggering $600 million in pro bono legal work aligned with Trump’s agenda.

This brings the total extracted through threats and executive orders to $940 million, a seismic and chilling milestone in Trump’s campaign to turn the legal system into a political weapon.

Key Developments:

• Five firms have agreed to Trump’s terms under threat of executive retaliation, including exclusion from government buildings and contracts.
  Sources: The Guardian, Reuters

• Each of the four largest firms pledged $125 million, while Cadwalader, whose former partner Todd Blanche now serves as Trump’s Deputy Attorney General, pledged $100 million.
  Sources: The Guardian, Politico

• As part of the deal, firms agreed to abandon DEI (diversity, equity, inclusion) policies and pledged to not deny representation to “politically disenfranchised groups and government officials.”
  Sources: The Guardian, Politico

• In exchange, Trump rescinded EEOC inquiries into the firms’ diversity practices and halted punitive executive orders that threatened to cripple their operations.
  Sources: Reuters, Politico

• Four firms—Perkins Coie, Jenner & Block, WilmerHale, and now Susman Godfrey—have refused to capitulate and are suing the Trump administration for unconstitutional retaliation.
  Sources: Reuters, Politico

• Trump now openly brags that the firms “have paid me a lot of money in the form of legal fees” and says he may use them to negotiate trade deals.
  Sources: Reuters

The Real Story: Who Wins and Who Pays the Price?

Trump and the robber barons win—again. By turning elite law firms into instruments of his political machine, Trump is gutting the last independent guardrails of American justice. The message is clear: obey or be destroyed.

Meanwhile, the American people lose access to an impartial legal system. Vulnerable groups, immigrants, civil rights plaintiffs, and whistleblowers will now face law firms aligned with the very regime seeking to silence them.

🔍 Why This Matters:

This isn’t just about law firms—it’s about the weaponization of the rule of law. Trump is using executive power to punish dissent, force political loyalty, and reshape the legal system in his image. It’s a soft purge of the legal class—one executive order at a time.

🚨 The Bottom Line:

This is how authoritarianism consolidates power—not all at once, but deal by deal. These firms didn’t just buy peace. They sold out the legal system. The only question left is: who’s next?

📌Sources:

• The Guardian: Trump says five more law firms agree to pro bono work to avoid punitive executive orders

• Reuters: Law firm targeted by Trump sues as five other top firms make deals

• Politico: Titans of Big Law cut deal with Trump

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