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DOJ to Drop Appeals of Executive Order Rulings

Posted by: Azya Thornton on Mar 2, 2026

The U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) is planning to step away from court battles with four major law firms that previously won rulings blocking President Donald Trump’s executive orders against them, Bloomberg Law reports. The decision to drop appeals of the rulings would end litigation over the orders, which four federal judges struck down as unconstitutional in separate decisions last year. The decision is a win for the four firms challenging the orders: WilmerHale, Perkins Coie, Jenner & Block and Susman Godfrey. Trump’s orders had, among other impacts, revoked lawyers’ security clearances and barred them from entering federal buildings. At the time the executive orders were imposed, the president said he was fighting back against law firms that had “weaponized” the justice system.