President Trump stripped Perkins Coie of access to federal buildings and personnel, citing its work for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign. The firm hired Williams & Connolly, which is skilled in fighting the government,

U.S. law firm Perkins Coie has hired outside lawyers from Williams & Connolly in response to President Donald Trump's executive order last week punishing the firm over its prior work for Hillary Clinton and its internal policies promoting diversity and inclusion.

Trump hit another major law firm that worked for his political rivals with an executive order seeking to limit its ability to work for the U.S. government.

The order against the firm, which did work for Democrats during the 2016 campaign, represents an escalation of efforts to punish groups the president sees as aiding his enemies.

President Donald Trump ordered his administration to take action against a top law firm linked to the infamous Steele Dossier, a now-discredited intelligence report alleging then-candidate Trump colluded with Russia during the 2016 presidential election.

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

Former President Trump said during an interview Sunday with FNC's Maria Bartiromo that his executive order stripping security clearance and government contracts from Perkins Coie, a DNC-aligned law firm that worked with the Clinton campaign on the Steele dossier,

Many big corporate law firms are declining to help with public criticism and legal opposition to the second Trump administration, in the wake of executive orders punishing law firms with Democratic ties.

President Donald Trump’s strike this week against a Democratic-linked law firm came years after it faced allegations of aiding unethical and, in some cases, illegal efforts to weaponize the Justice Department against Trump.