Law firm Perkins Coie has launched a suit to challenge President Trump’s stripping of security clearances for lawyers at the firm, saying it was targeted due to its past work for Democrats.

Perkins Coie, which represented Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign in 2016, was the subject of an executive order signed by Trump last week, citing the “dishonest and dangerous activity” of the firm.

Beyond stripping the firm’s clearances, the far-reaching order also essentially blocked its attorneys from federal buildings.

“The Order imposes these punishments as retaliation for the firm’s association with, and representation of, clients that the President perceives as his political opponents,” Perkins Coie wrote in the suit.

“The retaliatory aim of the Order is intentionally obvious to the general public and the press because the very goal is to chill........

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