President Trump's efforts to pressure big law firms are among the most transparent examples of his second-term revenge tour — and they're working, Axios' Sam Baker writes.

• Big Law firms pitch clients on their global reach, legions of Ivy League law degrees and experience with challenging litigation. But some of them have crumpled under the mere suggestion of a Trump vendetta.

💰 The latest: The firm Skadden Arps agreed to provide $100 million in free legal services for the administration and fund fellowships for new lawyers to work on conservative causes, Trump said today.

• Big Law giant Paul, Weiss previously agreed to pony up $40 million in pro bono legal work.

📝 State of play: Trump has signed executive orders freezing security clearances for lawyers at several big firms, as retribution for either the firms' or their attorneys' past work.

• Covington & Burling was the first firm he targeted, after it represented former special counsel Jack Smith. WilmerHale employed former special counsel Robert Mueller, and Jenner & Block had previously employed Andrew Weissmann, a prominent Trump critic.
• Perkins Coie has worked with many Democratic clients, including Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.
• Skadden's offense appears to be its work on a lawsuit against conservative pundit Dinesh D'Souza. Trump had not signed an executive order criticizing Skadden, but Elon Musk criticized the firm on X.

💼 Trump's orders largely froze some of those firms out of working for clients with business before the federal government. Their leaders argued that cutting a deal was better than losing clients, and maybe even top talent, while fighting in court.

🥊 The other side: Three of the firms Trump has targeted — Jenner & Block, WilmerHale and Perkins Coie — have been willing to challenge his attacks in court.

• "If law firms can be cowed this easily, then they don't deserve to be law firms," San Francisco-based attorney John Keker told The New Yorker.

"It's cold as sh-t here. Nobody told me," Vice President Vance joked today as he entered the Pituffik Space Base in Greenland.

• Temperatures were around -5 F.

🪖 Vance landed in Greenland for a one-day visit to advance the administration's desire to take over the country.

• "Our message to Denmark is very simple," Vance said. "You have not done a good job by the people of Greenland."
• Second Lady Usha Vance and national security adviser Mike Waltz are also along for the one-day trip.

✈️ The U.S. delegation opted not to visit Nuuk, Greenland's capital, where there was a risk of encountering anti-Trump protesters.

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3. 🐊 Floodgates open: With few outlets for their outrage, Democrats are pouring millions of dollars into special elections next week in two Trump-friendly congressional districts in Florida.

• But with Democratic donations flooding in from all 50 states, Republicans are funneling resources into the races to forestall embarrassment. Go deeper.

Ashley Paredes, 14, takes quinceañera photos among the cherry blossoms as the sun rises at the Tidal Basin in D.C.

• "Peak bloom" — the cherry blossoms at their best — begins today and continues through Monday.

Bloom watch.