White House withdraws executive order targeting law firm

Trump has withdrawn an executive order targeting an international law firm after the firm agreed to review its employment practices and provide the equivalent of $40 million in free legal services to support certain Trump administrative initiatives.

The White House sought to punish the firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison because of the work of one of its former lawyers, Mark Pomerantz, who oversaw an investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney’s office into Trump’s finances in between his first and second terms in office.

The White House agreed to withdraw the order against the law firm because of commitments that the firm had made, including that it would not use DEI in its hiring and promotion practices.

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