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I think at all cost, he does not want to look like he has failed or been defeated. Maybe he was hoping this would fly below the radar and when it did not, he was not happy and changed his mind.
[The swift change in strategy makes] DOJ look less competent and that may lead the court to be less deferential to government lawyers.
— Rebecca Roiphe, a former Manhattan prosecutor, in comments given to Bloomberg Law, concerning Donald Trump’s reaction to negative press coverage on the Department of Justice withdrawing from its defense of its executive orders targeted against Perkins Coie, WilmerHale, Susman Godfrey, and Jenner & Block, which resulted in a flip-flop less than 24 hours later, with the DOJ crawling back to withdraw its motion to voluntarily dismiss the appeals of its cases against the Biglaw firms.
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