A federal judge on Tuesday blocked most of Donald Trump's executive order targeting law firm Susman Godfrey, part of the Republican U.S. president's campaign against the legal industry, and lamented that other firms have been "capitulating" to what she called his coercion and abuse of power.

The Houston-based law firm Susman Godfrey filed a federal lawsuit Friday against President Donald Trump, challenging an executive order he signed that targets the firm’s federal contracts, security clearances,