The law firm Susman Godfrey LLP—the same firm that secured a staggering $787.5 million defamation settlement from Fox News on behalf of Dominion Voting Systems—is now suing President Trump and nearly every major federal agency in a brazen effort to overturn a recent executive order targeting the firm for its politicized legal activism.
Susman Godfrey, a Houston-based firm of leftist legal elites, filed a 66-page lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, hysterically claiming that President Trump’s Executive Order targeting their firm is an unconstitutional “retaliation” for their work defending the “integrity” of the 2020 election.
The complaint alleges violations of the First and Fifth Amendments, as well as separation-of-powers principles.
“The President is abusing the powers of his office to wield the might of the Executive Branch in retaliation against organizations and people that he dislikes,” according to the filing.
“Nothing in our Constitution or laws grants a President such power; to the contrary, the specific provisions and overall design of our Constitution were adopted in large measure to ensure that presidents cannot exercise arbitrary, absolute power in the way that the President seeks to do in these Executive Orders.”
More on the filing reviewed by The Gateway Pundit:
The Executive Order makes no secret of its unconstitutional retaliatory and discriminatory intent to punish Susman Godfrey for its work defending the integrity of the 2020 presidential election.
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The President is engaged in an unprecedented and unconstitutional assault on those bedrock principles and on the independent bar. In recent weeks, the President has issued multiple executive orders targeting law firms and their employees in an express campaign of retaliation for representing clients and causes he disfavors or employing lawyers he dislikes.
Those orders are so obviously unconstitutional that the firms that have challenged them have immediately and uniformly received judicial orders acknowledging their probable unconstitutionality and barring their enforcement.
Below are the defendants named in the lawsuit filed by Susman Godfrey LLP:
Agencies and Offices
Executive Office of the President
U.S. Department of Justice
Office of Management and Budget
Securities and Exchange Commission
United States International Trade Commission
Federal Trade Commission
United States Patent and Trademark Office
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Department of the Treasury
U.S. Department of Defense
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
U.S. Department of Education
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Central Intelligence Agency
Environmental Protection Agency
Department of Homeland Security
Department of State
Department of Energy
Department of Labor
Department of Agriculture
Department of Commerce
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Small Business Administration
Office of the United States Trade Representative
Department of the Interior
Department of Transportation
The United States of America
Individual Defendants (in their official capacities)
Pamela J. Bondi – Attorney General of the United States
Russell T. Vought – Director, Office of Management and Budget
Mark T. Uyeda – Acting Chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission
Amy A. Karpel – Chair, U.S. International Trade Commission
Andrew N. Ferguson – Chairman, Federal Trade Commission
Coke Morgan Stewart – Acting Director, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Andrea R. Lucas – Acting Chair, EEOC
Scott Bessent – Secretary of the Treasury
Peter B. Hegseth – Secretary of Defense
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. – Secretary of Health and Human Services
Linda M. McMahon – Secretary of Education
Douglas A. Collins – Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Tulsi Gabbard – Director of National Intelligence
John L. Ratcliffe – Director, Central Intelligence Agency
Lee M. Zeldin – Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency
Kristi Noem – Secretary of Homeland Security
Marco Rubio – Secretary of State
Chris Wright – Secretary of Energy
Lori Chavez-DeRemer – Secretary of Labor
Brooke L. Rollins – Secretary of Agriculture
Howard Lutnick – Secretary of Commerce
Scott Turner – Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Kelly Loeffler – Administrator, Small Business Administration
Jamieson Greer – U.S. Trade Representative
Doug Burgum – Secretary of the Interior
Sean Duffy – Secretary of Transportation
On Wednesday, President Trump signed a sweeping executive order launching a federal investigation and crackdown on the law firm Susman Godfrey LLP
The new directive orders the Department of Justice, the Office of Management and Budget, and intelligence agencies to immediately initiate a full-scale investigation into Susman Godfrey, citing a pattern of “egregious conduct, racial discrimination, and weaponization of the legal system” against political opponents and the American public.
The 6-section executive order makes clear that Susman Godfrey is no longer welcome in the halls of power:
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Section 1 denounces the firm for pushing radical “diversity, equity, and inclusion” policies — including programs that offer jobs and scholarships based solely on race — and declares these practices “un-American and unlawful.”
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Section 2 calls for the suspension of security clearances held by Susman employees and ends the firm’s access to government resources and classified spaces.
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Section 3 orders a freeze and review of all federal contracts involving Susman or its affiliates, urging agencies to cancel deals where possible.
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Section 4 ties the move to broader efforts to dismantle race-based hiring practices in federal contracting and lawfare against conservatives.
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Section 5 prohibits Susman personnel from entering federal buildings or being hired by the U.S. government without high-level waivers.
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Section 6 underscores that this order must be interpreted in a way that defends American national security and respects existing law.
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