The expanded attack on major firms comes just days after a judge ruled that a similar order was unconstitutional.

President Donald Trump issued an executive order targeting law firm Paul Weiss' contracts, citing its past hire of an ex-prosecutor critical of Trump.

The ruling came hours after Trump claimed the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua was invading the United States and invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, a wartime authority that allows the president broader leeway on policy and executive action to speed up mass deportations.

A federal judge in Washington D.C. has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deporting Venezuelan immigrants under the Alien Enemies Act, a rarely invoked 1798 law, hours after the White House issued an executive order.

Alien Enemies Act: A federal judge on Saturday said the Trump administration must halt use of an obscure wartime law, called the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, to deport Venezuelans. The judge also ordered the return of any planes that had departed the United States with immigrants under the order. Read more ›