Trump Drops Court Fight Against Law Firms Targeted in Orders

The Justice Department is backing out from a court battle with four major law firms that won rulings blocking President Donald Trump’s executive orders against them.

DOJ on Monday filed a motion to withdraw its appeals of the rulings. The move ends the litigation over the orders, in which Trump targeted firms for their ties to lawyers he sees as enemies and work on causes he views as adverse to his interests. Four federal judges struck down the orders as unconstitutional in separate rulings last year.