Hi, everyone, it's 4 o'clock here in Washington, D.C. I'm Alicia Menendez in for Nicole Wallace.

Big developments today in what is shaping up to be one of the most consequential legal battles of the second Trump administration.

This morning, two law firms, Jenner & Block and Wilmer Hale, sued the Trump

administration, two separate lawsuits to block executive orders that stripped their attorneys of

security clearances and prevented them from representing government clients. In one of its motions,

attorneys for Jenner and Block write, quote, the order threatens not only

Jenner, but also its clients and the legal system itself. Our Constitution, top to bottom,

forbids attempts by the government to punish citizens and lawyers based on the clients they represent,

the positions they advocate, the opinions they voice, and the people with whom they associate.

One of Jenner & Block's biggest sins in the eyes of Donald Trump employing our colleague

Andrew Weissman who worked on the Mueller investigation both before and after working at

Jenner and Block. The firm Wilmer Hale, also suing to stop an executive order signed by

Trump on Thursday.

It counted among its employees Robert Mueller himself.

Both Mueller and Andrew Weissman left their respective firms four years ago.

In total, four executive orders targeting four different law firms have now resulted in three lawsuits.

One firm, Paul Weiss, struck a deal with the Trump administration.

In the midst of all the lawsuits and legal battles playing out in the courts involving

Team Trump, and there are many, it may be hard to understand just why this all matters.

As Jenner & Block notes, in its lawsuit, it has done work for clients

suing the Biden administration, just as it now is representing clients suing the Trump

administration. Wilmer Hale represented Elon Musk's Twitter when it tried to block a subpoena from

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