发布时间：2026年3月2日，美国东部时间下午2:19 / 作者：凯特琳·波兰茨
（注：图片为唐纳德·特朗普总统2026年2月27日离开白宫时与媒体交谈的场景，Heather Diehl/Getty Images/File提供）
特朗普政府已决定终止针对四家与民主党有关联的律师事务所的长期诉讼。此前，特朗普政府试图剥夺这些律所接触联邦政府的机会，却未获成功，这一行动显然是总统唐纳德·特朗普实施的报复性计划的一部分。
尽管特朗普不喜欢这些律所中曾反对过他的某些律师，并试图通过行政命令打击他们，但这些律所——包括帕金斯·科伊尔律师事务所（Perkins Coie）、威尔默·卡特勒·皮克林·霍尔&多尔律师事务所（Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr）、詹纳&布洛克律师事务所（Jenner & Block）和苏斯曼·戈德费律师事务所（Susman Godfrey）——均得到了华盛顿特区联邦法官的保护，去年这些法官均驳回了政府的诉讼请求。
特朗普表示，这些律所均雇佣了曾调查或反对过他个人的律师。他试图利用总统职权剥夺这些律所律师进入联邦大楼、获取机密信息以及与联邦机构会面的权利——这些都是在华盛顿开展法律工作的核心要素。
据知情人士透露，政府已于本周末通知这些律所，称其将撤回上诉。司法部发言人拒绝置评。
政府此前一直在就法院判决提出上诉，并试图拖延美国哥伦比亚特区巡回上诉法院的诉讼进程，新的诉讼材料提交截止时间为本周晚些时候。
这些案件是特朗普为应对自身过往法律问题而采取的最令人震惊的报复行动之一，其目标是针对那些与民主党政府和党派有关联、规模较大且拥有知名律师的律所。
其他面临类似特朗普行政命令威胁的律所通过与政府达成协议，改变了策略，尤其是在公益法律服务的政治倾向方面，从支持自由派转向更保守的立场。
尽管这些行政命令在法庭上未获支持，但它们已极大削弱了美国大型律所公开反对政府和代表进步事业的意愿。
例如，拜登和奥巴马政府时期的司法部高级律师发现，他们更难进入或留在大型律所——这与华盛顿以往政府换届后的典型情况不同，部分律师选择创办小型白领律师事务所。
Trump administration drops suits against law firms with ties to Democrats and other Trump foes
PUBLISHED Mar 2, 2026, 2:19 PM ET / By Katelyn Polantz
President Donald Trump stops to speak to the media as he departs the White House on February 27, 2026.
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The Trump administration has decided to drop its prolonged court fights against four law firms with ties to Democrats, after it had sought and failed to cut out the firms’ access to the federal government as part of an apparent retribution campaign by President Donald Trump.
Despite Trump’s dislike for certain lawyers who had opposed him at the firms and his attempts to use executive orders against them, the firms – Perkins Coie, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr, Jenner & Block and Susman Godfrey – had each been protected by federal judges in Washington, DC, who ruled against the administration last year.
Each of the firms, Trump said, had employed lawyers who had investigated or opposed him personally. He attempted to use the powers of the presidency to deprive the firms’ lawyers of access to federal buildings, secured classified information and meetings with federal agencies – all mainstays of Washington-based legal work.
The firms were notified by the administration this weekend that it was dropping its appeals, according to a source familiar with the decision. A Justice Department spokesperson declined to comment.
The administration was appealing its court losses and had been delaying proceedings from moving forward at the US DC Circuit Court of Appeals. Filings were due beginning later this week.
The cases had been some of the most shocking attempts at retribution by Trump for his own past legal issues, with Trump aiming at large and well-known firms with prominent lawyers who had ties to Democratic administrations and the party.
Other firms under threat of similar Trump executive orders cut deals with the administration and changed their approach, especially by shifting the political leanings in the pro bono work they were willing to do, from liberal causes to more conservative ones.
Though the executive orders didn’t survive in court, they have widely curtailed large American law firms’ willingness to oppose the administration and represent progressive causes publicly.
Top Justice Department lawyers from the Biden and Obama administrations, for instance, have also found more difficulty in landing or staying at large law firms, as would be typical after prior administration changeovers in Washington, with some starting their own small white collar firms instead.
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