This Time, Trump REALLY Messed with the Wrong Bunch of Hombres

The Guardian, Trump signs order targeting law firm behind $787.5m Fox defamation suit: Order punishes Susman Godfrey, which helped Dominion Voting Systems get millions from Fox for 2020 election lies.

Susman Godfrey is possibly the best litigation law firm in the country. And they are being punished for successfully holding Fox News to account for its election lies.

If anybody can make Trump eat shit, these are the folks to do the job.

We shall see what we shall see. In the meantime, the firm had this to say:

In response to the executive order filed by the administration on April 9th, 2025, Susman Godfrey has issued the following statement:

“Anyone who knows Susman Godfrey knows we believe in the rule of law, and we take seriously our duty to uphold it. This principle guides us now. There is no question that we will fight this unconstitutional order.”

A point of personal privilege: I was among the late Steve Susman’s ten thousand closest friends. (Actually, it could have been more than ten thousand; I don’t rightly know.) And I am damn proud of it, too. 

From wherever he is in the bardo, Steve is urging his living partners to hang in—and whispering litigation tricks into their shelflike ears.