President Donald Trump is taking aim at high-profile law firms, including one co-headquartered in Boston, pulling contracts and clearances.
White-shoe law firm WilmerHale, founded in Boston and co-headquartered here, has became the latest target of President Donald Trump’s wrath when he stripped the firm of federal government contracts, security clearances and building access.
Trump issued the sanctions in a one-page executive order Thursday, making a litany of claims including that WilmerHale is “bent on employing lawyers who weaponize the prosecutorial power to upend the democratic process and distort justice.”
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The order cites the firm’s ties to Robert Mueller, the former FBI director and Justice Department special counsel who investigated whether Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign had collaborated with Russian state officials. Mueller was previously a senior partner at WilmerHale’s Washington, D.C., office and returned briefly to the firm before retiring in 2021.
“Mueller’s ‘investigation’ upended the lives of public servants in my administration who were summoned before ‘prosecutors’ with the effect of interfering in their ability to fulfill the mandates of my first term agenda,” Trump wrote. “This weaponization of the justice system must not be rewarded, let alone condoned.”
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A spokesperson for WilmerHale on Friday said, “We look forward to pursuing all appropriate remedies to this unlawful order.”
