Late Friday afternoon, two separate federal judges for the District of Columbia issued temporary restraining orders (TROs) preventing the executive orders from continuing in effect. A third judge had issued a similar TRO at the urging of Perkins Coie LLP earlier in March, making Trump 0 for 3 in court challenges to his executive orders targeting law firms.

Of course, none of the TROs has been tested yet in the Court of Appeals, or in the Supreme Court, which is stacked with pro-Trump fascists.

In contrast to these three major law firms, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, the fifth largest in the world based on its $3.3 billion in annual revenues, surrendered to Trump without a fight. Trump did not reveal his reasons for threatening the firm with an executive order, but on March 23, Elon Musk posted on social media: “Skadden, this needs to stop now.” Musk was referring to an accusation by the fascist election denier and proven liar Dinesh D’Souza that the firm’s lawyers are waging “systematic lawfare” in pro bono litigation against his discredited pseudo-documentary 2000 Mules, which claimed to provide evidence that Trump’s 2020 electoral defeat was due to ballot-box fraud.