President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed a sweeping executive order launching a federal investigation and crackdown on the law firm Susman Godfrey LLP, the legal powerhouse behind Dominion Voting Systems’ highly publicized 2020 election defamation lawsuits—including its $787.5 million settlement from Fox News.
The firm is also pursuing defamation cases against other Trump allies, including Rudy Giuliani and Mike Lindell.
The new directive orders the Department of Justice, the Office of Management and Budget, and intelligence agencies to immediately initiate a full-scale investigation into Susman Godfrey, citing a pattern of “egregious conduct, racial discrimination, and weaponization of the legal system” against political opponents and the American public.