The California Senate passed a resolution today that honors Keker, Van Nest & Peters and other law firms for standing up to the Trump administration’s attacks on the legal system. Keker’s Managing Partner Laurie Carr Mims testified in support of the resolution.
“Our legal system is under attack, and we must do what we can to fight back, not only for lawyers and judges, but for our democracy,” Mims told the state Senate’s Judiciary Committee in early May.
Sen. Thomas Umberg, a retired U.S. Army Colonel and former federal prosecutor, invited Mims to testify. He introduced Senate Concurrent Resolution 66, commemorating May 1st as Law Day in California and declaring “that using executive orders to silence opposition and chill legal advocacy is an unlawful attack on the right of Americans to seek counsel.”
The Senate Resolution specifically names the firms targeted by the Trump administration's unlawful orders that are fighting back: Perkins Coie, Jenner & Block, Wilmer Hale and Susman Godfrey and honored the California-founded firms that are publicly defending the targeted law firms, including Keker; Munger, Tolles & Olson; Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher; Cooley; Fenwick & West; Manatt, Phelps & Phillips; and Hanson Bridgett.
In concluding her remarks, Mims said, “This is a critical moment to fight against the slide into a totalitarian regime by standing in solidarity with lawyers and law firms that are willing to fight against unconstitutional actions by the federal government.”
Watch Mims’ full testimony here.