Legal Services Spared From Russia Sanctions So Far, White House Says
Legal services have so far been excluded from the U.S.'s waves of sanctions on Russia following its full-scale military assault on Ukraine. During a May 8 press call, a senior administration official discussed why that is and what the landscape for legal services restrictions may look like moving forward. Until now, the Biden administration has held off on legal services sanctions to allow designated parties to seek due process through U.S. attorneys.
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That position is being constantly reviewed by the administration, the official said. "We’re reevaluating, you know, the breadth of these services, sanctions every day. And depending on how we see behavior change over time, we can certainly broaden the sanctions. The U.K. has also not banned legal services at this point either, but we’re closely talking. We’re talking very actively about whether we ought to broaden. And so, we’ll just watch what happens in the aftermath of this ban."