'Big win!' Trump foe cheers as admin loses again against ex-White House ethics czar

On Thursday, President Donald Trump's administration lost another procedural motion in one of its legal battles brought by lawyer Norm Eisen, a former White House ethics czar.

Eisen won an injunction for the League of United Latin American Citizens, or LULAC, and others in a lawsuit against Trump's administration. Trump signed an executive order that "changed the rules of federal elections," the plaintiffs said in the court filing.

"Another big win for us against the Trump administration's illegality!" cheered Eisen on Bluesky. "This time a preliminary injunction on behalf of our client LULAC & many others against the president's EO distorting elections. Voters should choose the president not vice versa. Kudos to cocounsel & all our great team."

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Federal probationary workers have also hired Eisen to help after they were purged from their jobs as part of Trump's effort to cut spending. In March, a U.S. district judge ruled that thousands of fired probationary federal workers must be reinstated. That has since been appealed. It is only one of the cases Eisen has won against the administration.

Those legal battles prompted Trump to attack Eisen personally when speaking to the press.

"There's a guy named Norm Eisen. I don't even know what he looks like. His name is Norm Eisen of CREW. He's been after me for nine years now. Now, CREW is a charitable organization," Trump said from the Oval Office on March 14.

Eisen is an independent lawyer. CREW stands for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a government ethics watchdog group that Eisen co-founded more than two decades ago. Eisen then served as chairman of the board from 2016 to 2019.

"I don't know who he is," Trump added. "I don't know what he looks like, but everything I read is Norm Eisen of CREW. And CREW is a charitable organization, and that's a political thing. His sole life is to get Donald Trump. And he's been vicious and violent and he's trying, and he probably had pretty good success over the years. But with me, how did he do? I think I'm president. Am I here because I'm president?"

Eisen responded to Trump's rant, saying: "We treat these kinds of attacks as the ultimate back-handed compliment. And they're just going to urge us on to do even more to defend the American people."