President Trump directs Pam Bondi to probe attorneys who lob ‘frivolous, unreasonable’ litigation against his administration

President Trump directed US Attorney General Pam Bond to pursue penalties against law firms and lawyers that lodge “frivolous” litigation against the government.

Trump pointed to civil procedure rules barring lawyers from lodging legal filings to “harass” or “cause unnecessary delay” and asked Bondi, 59, to recommend additional steps he could take to fight back.

“Far too many attorneys and law firms have long ignored these requirements when litigating against the Federal Government or in pursuing baseless partisan attacks,” Trump said in a presidential memorandum the White House released Saturday.

“I hereby direct the Attorney General to seek sanctions against attorneys and law firms who engage in frivolous, unreasonable, and vexatious litigation against the United States.”

The Trump administration has weathered well over 100 lawsuits since late January.

Last month alone, the courts imposed 15 injunctions against the president’s actions, dramatically outpacing the judicial roadblocks former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden faced.

This includes injunctions on Trump’s executive order to scrap birthright citizenship, the block on the president’s use of wartime power to deport Venezuelan gangbangers and more.

Trump’s legal team has petitioned the US Supreme Court to intervene and potentially pare back the lower courts’ ability to slap injunctions against his actions while litigation plays out.

The 47th president’s directive to Bondi requests that she assess litigation against the government going back eight years, which would encompass his first administration.

He called on his AG to recommend other potential remedies such as a “reassessment of security clearances” and cutting off government contracts with law firms.

One example Trump’s memoranda cited was the Elias Law Group LLP founder’s push for the Clinton campaign solicitation of the debunked Steele dossier.

“Law firms and individual attorneys have a great power, and obligation, to serve the rule of law, justice, and order,” Trump added in the memo.

During his second term, Trump has worked to crack down on lefty law firms and firms that have rankled him in the past.

Recently, Paul Wiess, a top law firm that has done work for Democratic clients, agreed to give $40 million worth of pro bono legal services to the Trump administration to overcome an executive order that would’ve restricted it from representing clients before the federal government.

Trump’s order would’ve imposed restrictions on the firm’s access to security clearances. Notably, Paul Wiess provided legal support to criminal cases against Trump.

Another target of that executive order, powerhouse Democratic law firm Perkins Coie, recently won a temporary restraining order against Trump’s executive order that stymied its lawyers from entering government buildings or engaging with federal agencies.

Perkins Coie played a key role in the crafting of the Steele dossier during the 2016 campaign by funding opposition research against Trump.