Trump’s Strategy in Law Firm Cases: Lose, Don’t Appeal, Yet Prevail

The handful of notable law firms that challenged President Trump after being targeted have uniformly won in court, but administration lawyers have done nothing to challenges those loses. On this matter, Cornell law professor and legal ethics expert W. Bradley Wendel says, “They knew that these were losing positions from the beginning and were not actually hoping to win in court, but rather to intimidate firms into settling, as many firms did.”