A federal judge on March 12 agreed to temporarily block parts of President Donald Trump’s executive order imposing certain sanctions on a Washington law firm that was involved in generating the controversial Steele dossier.
Trump signed the order on March 6, citing law firm Perkins Coie LLP’s work during the 2016 election, when Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) paid the firm more than $1 million to hire opposition research company Fusion GPS. Trump’s order also targeted the firm’s policies promoting workforce diversity, equity, and inclusion.
