President Trump's executive orders targeting big law firms could cause a chilling effect on the American justice system. Bob Van Nest, a trial lawyer and partner at Keker, Van Nest & Peters, joins CBS News with more on how his firm is planning to fight back.
“This is a wholesale assault on the rule of law and the ability and role of lawyers to uphold that," Van Nest said. "We recognized after the Perkins Executive Order and the memorandum 10 days ago concerning firms like ours – and many others that represent asylum seekers and folks like that – that this was a campaign of intimidation attempting to discourage law firms (like ours and many others) from representing people who are being attacked by the government.”
Watch the segment on CBSNews.com.