Robert Mueller's former law firm breaks silence after DOJ suddenly reverses executive order surrender [View all]

Source: Law & Crime

Mar 28th, 2026, 8:01 am


As soon as it seemed the Department of Justice was prepared to stop defending President Donald Trump's executive orders to punish Democratic "lawfare" and the law firms he blamed for it, the Trump administration suddenly reversed itself. Now one firm has asked an appeals court to agree that Trump unleashed unconstitutional sanctions for "welcoming" the late special counsel Robert Mueller back to the law firm after the Russia probe's end.

In a 40-page brief filed Friday at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, WilmerHale referred to Mueller's death on March 20 at the age of 81. While the firm did not mention Trump's social media post — where the president said of Mueller, "Good, I'm glad he's dead" — the filing said it couldn't be more obvious that Executive Order 14250, "Addressing Risk of WilmerHale," was never about national security.

In early March, when the DOJ filed documents to dismiss its appeal of the resounding losses, attention immediately turned to the nine law firms that controversially settled with the administration and offered up nearly a billion dollars in free legal services to keep their security clearances and contracts untouched. Paul Weiss, one such firm, was also linked to Mueller, as Trump's onetime executive order made sure to point out.

WilmerHale noted that Trump's stated national security concerns seemed to have vanished once Paul Weiss "agreed to change its tune and adopt policies more in line with the President's preferences[.]" "[T]he President vitiated the earlier order in toto, without retaining the suspension of security clearances or any other sanction that could possibly be justified on grounds of national security," the brief said. "That is proof-positive that these orders are being imposed (and revoked) as a single, unified package."

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