A federal judge on Friday ruled President Trump's order targeting the law firm Jenner & Block is unlawful, blocking it in full.

U.S. District Judge John Bates, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, said Trump took aim at the law firm because of the causes it champions, the clients it represents and a lawyer it once employed — a reference to Andrew Weissmann, a prominent Trump critic and legal pundit who worked on special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.

He noted that the president has signed several executive orders taking aim at Big Law firms like Jenner & Block over their ties to his perceived enemies.

"This order, like the others, seeks to chill legal representation the administration doesn’t like, thereby insulating the Executive Branch from the judicial check fundamental to the separation of powers," Bates

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