Democrats in Congress are putting the law firms that cut deals with President Donald Trump to give the administration free legal services on notice, reported The New Republic on Thursday: if Trump committed extortion to get those deals, you could end up with legal liability too.

Trump cut a number of these deals with "big law" firms like Paul Weiss and Skadden Arps that represented clients in anti-Trump cases before the president took office, right around the same time he either rescinded or decided not to issue executive orders barring these law firms from contracting with the federal government or accessing federal buildings. These deals generally involve committing tens to hundreds of millions in pro bono work for causes the administration approves of, eliminating diversity policies in the office, and committing to offer counsel to Trump-supporting clients.

According to a report from the Guardian's Hugo Lowell, the chairman of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLC, Brad Karp, set the terms of his law firm's acquiescence to Donald Trump which included him hanging a former partner "out to dry" to please the president.

In a report late Saturday, Lowell wrote that Karp and his firm reached out to the president through "back channels" in an effort to get an executive order that would have kept it from representing clients before the federal government withdrawn.

According to the report, those negotiations took place over multiple meetings, with Lowell reporting that Trump "had not made any explicit requests of the firm, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter."

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As the report notes, it fell on Karp to propose various elements that would please Trump and his inner circle and one of those was, as Lowell wrote, an "extraordinary part of a deal," was the offering up of former partner Mark Pomerantz, who has d attempted to build a criminal case against Trump during a stint in the Manhattan district attorney’s office.

According to Lowell, "The commitments and most notably the sacrificing of Pomerantz were offered up proactively by Karp at a White House meeting this week, the people said."

The report adds that the offer to condemn Pomerantz came about at a second meeting.

"Karp returned to the White House on Wednesday to deliver his second proposal that included condemning Pomerantz to Trump and a tight circle of advisers, including chief of staff Susie Wiles, envoy Steve Witkoff and the president’s personal counsel Boris Epshteyn," the report states before adding, "During the roughly three-hour meeting, Trump also called Robert Giuffra of Sullivan and Cromwell, the head of one of Paul, Weiss’s direct competitors, to ask for his input."

Donald Trump on Sunday raged against the prosecutor and judge involved in the criminal case where the president-elect was convicted of dozens of felonies.

Trump over the weekend took to his own social media network, Truth Social, to voice his displeasure about the fact that Judge Juan Merchan ordered Trump's felony sentencing to take place before he takes office as President of the U.S. Earlier in the day, a former prosecutor highlighted an "interesting footnote" in Merchan's filing about the sentencing.

Roger Parloff, a senior editor at Lawfare, has published a lengthy essay examining the merits of New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg's case against former President Donald Trump for allegedly falsifying business records to cover up hush-money payments.

After taking stock of some critics' contentions that the hush-money case against the former president was unworthy of prosecution, Parloff drew a line between the current Trump case and the case that prosecutors once brought against notorious gangster Al Capone for tax evasion.

Judge Juan Merchan rejected Donald Trump's request to subpoena a former prosecutor in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office.

The former president's lawyers had asked the court for testimony and documents from former prosecutor Mark Pomerantz, who called the hush money investigation a "zombie" case in his book and questioned whether charges were warranted, but Mercan rejected the request on a number of grounds.