The president suspended security clearances of lawyers at Covington & Burling over their pro bono work for special counsel Jack Smith.

The orders also may represent exceptional acts of retribution against lawyers who have crossed him in the past, they said.

The firm cited in Donald Trump's memo, Covington & Burling, provided pro bono services to Jack Smith, which he revealed shortly before resigning.

President Donald Trump is targeting the elite Washington law firm that is representing former special counsel Jack Smith, issuing a directive that would strip some of its lawyers of their security clearances and examine the firm’s government contracts.

President Donald Trump has ordered the suspension of any security clearances held by lawyers at a prominent Washington law firm who provided legal services to special counsel Jack Smith

The president, targeting Smith, said ahead of signing the memo in the Oval Office on Tuesday, “We’re going to call it the deranged Jack Smith signing or bill ... approach that has rattled lawyers across Washington. It’s long been a protected ...

President Trump’s executive order targeting Special Counsel Jack Smith’s personal attorney and the attorney’s law firm, Covington & Burling, underscores an emerging policy targeting the agents of what Mr. Trump and his aides call “the weaponization of government.”

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order targeting a law firm that assisted Trump's prosecutor, Jack Smith. Newsweek sought email comment on Wednesday from the office of Attorney General Pam Bondi, former special counsel Jack Smith and the law offices of Covington & Burling.

President Trump took a "vindictive and petty" shot at former special counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday night — signing an executive order that he labeled the "deranged Jack Smith" bill. The post ‘A disgraceful affront’: Trump ripped for going after Jack Smith with ‘vindictive and petty’ order suspending security clearances of lawyers he says helped investigate POTUS first appeared on Law & Crime.

When Donald Trump signed an executive order targeting a private law firm, it was seen as an outrageous abuse. It didn’t stop him from doing it again.

President Donald Trump retaliated Tuesday against a Washington law firm that provided free legal services to special counsel Jack Smith, the federal prosecutor who brought two criminal cases ...

White House staff secretary Will Scharf said in the Oval Office that the memo targeted Washington, D.C.-based law firm Covington ... Trump quipped that they would call the memo the “deranged Jack Smith signing,” invoking a pejorative he has frequently ...