For nearly a decade now, President Donald Trump has been on the receiving end of egregious acts of lawfare conducted by Democrat-aligned law firms that are intended not just to oppose his policy agenda but also to destroy him personally and politically.

Trump is now taking action against some of those law firms that overtly aligned themselves against him, including one of the earliest offenders, Perkins Coie, by revoking security clearances, denying access, and cutting contracts, according to The Telegraph.

Perkins Coie, readers may recall, played an integral role in helping failed 2016 nominee Hillary Clinton's campaign create the so-called "Steele Dossier," a maliciously manufactured collection of debunked documents that falsely accused then-candidate Trump of colluding with Russia to steal the 2016 election.

Trump cuts off Clinton-aligned Perkins Coie

On March 6, President Trump issued an executive order that stated, "The dishonest and dangerous activity of the law firm Perkins Coie LLP ('Perkins Coie') has affected this country for decades. Notably, in 2016 while representing failed Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, Perkins Coie hired Fusion GPS, which then manufactured a false 'dossier' designed to steal an election."

Indeed, as The Telegraph acknowledged, the Democrat-aligned law firm that represented the Clinton campaign and other Democratic entities during the 2016 election cycle was exposed for having paid $1 million to Democrat-aligned opposition research firm Fusion GPS, which in turn hired ex-British spy Christopher Steele to find and compile negative information about Clinton's GOP opponent, Trump.

Steele ultimately put together and shopped to the media a collection of baseless and unproven allegations of alleged ties between Trump and Russia that, despite the complete lack of veracity, were breathlessly reported as the gospel truth by the media and were used as the fraudulent basis for investigations by the FBI and former Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

In his order, Trump also called out Perkins Coie for its work with leftist billionaires like George Soros to oppose and overturn election integrity laws as well as the firm's adherence to "diversity, equity, and inclusion," or DEI policies that Trump has asserted are discriminatory and likely violate federal laws mandating equal treatment.

Similar actions against other Democrat-align law firms

As such, President Trump ordered the suspension and revocation of security clearances held by Perkins Coie partners and employees, the termination of federal contracts with entities doing business with the firm, the ending of access to federal buildings by the firm's members, and a prohibition against the hiring of any of the firm's current or former employees.

The Telegraph noted that Trump has also taken similar actions against two other prominent law firms that have engaged in partisan lawfare against him.

The first of those is Covington & Burling LLP, of which certain members, partners, and employees of the firm provided assistance to former Special Counsel Jack Smith and his dual criminal prosecutions against Trump last year.

More recently, Trump took on the firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, better known simply as Paul Weiss, on account of the firm's assistance to D.C. federal prosecutors going after Jan. 6 Capitol riot defendants as well as Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's criminal prosecution against Trump.

As with Perkins Coie, both Covington & Burling and Paul Weiss have found their security clearances revoked, access to federal buildings denied, contracts with the federal government canceled, and their current and former employees barred from federal jobs.

Consequences and repercussions

The Telegraph reported that some in the legal community are outraged by President Trump's targeting of certain law firms, conveniently ignoring the fact that those firms were active partisan adversaries against him, and have decried the "chilling effect" and "unprecedented" nature of the sanctions he imposed.

Yet, certain actions can bring about consequences and repercussions, and as these firms have now learned the hard way, actively aligning with the president's political adversaries to engage in lawfare against him and his supporters will elicit a particular response.