Bryce
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![In America we have, in the words of John Adams, a government of laws and not
men. President Trump’s campaign of Executive Orders against law firms and others, including
the Executive Order he signed on April 9, 2025 against Susman Godfrey, is a grave threat to this
foundational premise of our Republic. The President is abusing the powers of his office to wield
the might of the Executive Branch in retaliation against organizations and people that he dislikes.
Nothing in our Constitution or laws grants a President such power; to the contrary, the specific
provisions and overall design of our Constitution were adopted in large measure to ensure that
presidents cannot exercise arbitrary, absolute power in the way that the President seeks to do in
these Executive Orders.
2. Unless the Judiciary acts with resolve—now—to repudiate this blatantly
unconstitutional Executive Order and the others like it, a dangerous and perhaps irreversible
precedent will be set. Whatever opinions one may hold about President Trump, or about Susman
Godfrey’s litigation on behalf of its clients, someday a different president with an entirely different
set of policy priorities and personal grievances will sit behind the Resolute Desk. That future
president may genuinely believe that an entirely different set of organizations or people have
“engage[d] in activities detrimental to critical American interests,” to quote the accusation
President Trump has leveled at Susman Godfrey. If President Trump’s Executive Orders are
allowed to stand, future presidents will face no constraint when they seek to retaliate against a
different set of perceived foes. What for two centuries has been beyond the pale will become the
new normal.
3. Put simply, this could be any of us.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:n7lbfmnhk45vemv6qqbgjpv5/bafkreiarzrfjmsn24qokoypk2sa2ljctk425d5htxukbxippvwh2vduphe)
