The White House said President Donald Trump will sign a memo suspending the security clearances of several employees of Covington & Burling LLP after they assisted Jack Smith's probes.

President Donald Trump’s decision to punish Covington & Burling for representing former Special Counsel Jack Smith will feed some firms’ worries about letting lawyers volunteer to represent former Justice Department attorneys.

One by one, Trump is fencing in all his potential opponents. Now he’s sending a clear warning to lawyers to back off.

The memo strips Jack Smith's attorney of his security clearance as well as any other attorneys at the firm who assisted Smith while he was investigating Trump.

"The Executive Orders should be declared unlawful, and the agency Defendants should be enjoined from enforcing or implementing them," counsel for the plaintiffs wrote in a complaint naming President Donald Trump and multiple cabinet members as defendants.

The Trump administration's first cabinet meeting will take place at 11 a.m. today and will include Elon Musk, who is not a cabinet member. Over the weekend, the head of the Department of Government Efficiency ( DOGE) caused chaos by emailing all federal workers, asking them to justify their jobs or risk losing them.

President Trump dismissed claims of targeting related to special counsel Jack Smith, citing his own history of investigations. Trump ordered the suspe