Attanasio and a team of colleagues late last week got a judge to block Trump's order for now. "He's the ideal lawyer for what Jenner & Block has hired him to do," says Rusty Hardin, the colorful Texas trial lawyer who has worked with Attanasio.

President Trump on Tuesday announced his administration struck a deal with a law firm with ties to former second gentleman Doug Emhoff and the House panel that investigated the Jan. 6 attack on