A D.C. federal judge said she will temporarily halt a Trump executive order targeting the law firm Perkins Coie, which represented Hillary Clinton.

A federal judge blocked President Donald Trump's administration Wednesday from enforcing portions of an executive order designed to punish a prominent law firm linked to Democratic-funded opposition research during the 2016 presidential campaign into ties between the Republican candidate and Russia.

A judge on Wednesday imposed a temporary restraining order against the Trump administration, barring it from enforcing parts of an executive order penalizing a top Democratic-linked law firm that was involved in pushing discredited Russian collusion allegations during the first Trump presidency.