The move to disqualify the judge was emblematic of the Trump administration’s broader attacks on the federal judiciary, which in recent weeks has pushed back against executive actions.

A federal judge on Wednesday refused the Trump administration’s demand to step aside from overseeing Perkins Coie’s lawsuit challenging the president’s targeting of the major law firm. U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell said there is a “clear absence of any legitimate basis” for her recusal from the case,

A federal judge in Washington on Wednesday rejected the Justice Department’s move to disqualify her from a suit over President Donald Trump’s executive order against law firm Perkins Coie.