President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he will seek to get major U.S. law firms to do free legal work to support his trade team's negotiations with other countries after four firms in recent weeks agreed to donate legal services to his administration.

As Willkie Farr & Gallagher learned, cutting a deal with the White House can avert a financially punitive executive order. But doing so can draw internal rebukes and external criticism.

President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he would use the power of the Justice Department to go after two officials who were highly critical of him during his first term in office, including one whose anonymously written New York Times op-ed claiming he was part of the “resistance” to Trump’s presidency captivated the nation for years.

A Democratic congresswoman has said she regrets voting for the Laken Riley Act because of how it has been rolled out by the Trump administration. Rep. Jahana Hayes (D-CT) said during a CNN town hall Thursday that despite bipartisan approval the law has been used to feed a rhetoric against immigrants.

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