Lawyers for the Justice Department and four major law firms clashed this week over how federal courts should handle a series of high-profile challenges to President Donald Trump’s executive orders targeting firms tied to past investigations and litigation against him.
The Trump administration asked judges to pause the law firm cases until the court resolves a related appeal involving attorney Mark Zaid, a longtime Washington lawyer whose security clearance was stripped by Trump, according to a filing Monday at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Deputy Associate Attorney General Abhishek Kambli, arguing for the DOJ, argued that the Zaid case raises overlapping legal issues that could help clarify how the appeals court should approach the broader dispute over Trump’s authority to
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