Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson warned on Thursday that the Trump administration’s attacks on the judiciary are “not isolated incidents,” but are designed to intimate the judiciary and “impact more than just the individual judges who are being targeted.” Justice Jackson further warned that the threats and harassment of the judiciary are an attack [...]

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to cease federal funding for public broadcasters National Public Radio (NPR) and Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), calling such funding “not only outdated and unnecessary but corrosive to the appearance of journalistic independence.” NPR and PBS receive their funding through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), established [...]

President Donald Trump signed two executive orders on Monday to target sanctuary jurisdictions for violating, obstructing, and defying federal immigration laws, and to bolster immigration enforcement by “empowering State and local law enforcement to firmly police dangerous criminal behavior and protect innocent citizens.” The first order, titled “Protecting American Communities from Criminal Aliens,” begins by [...]

A workers’ advocacy group has filed an unfair labor charge against the law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP (“Skadden”), for agreeing to provide provide free legal services to causes aligned with President Donald Trump’s administration and curtailing its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. Specifically, the charge document has alleged that Skadden [...]

Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez, a twenty-year-old American citizen born in the US, has been released as of Thursday evening, after spending 24 hours in jail on charges of entering Florida as an “unauthorized alien.” Lopez-Gomez has alleged that his statemets to the arresting officer that he is indeed a US citizen were ignored, despite Lopez-Gomez backing [...]

In yet another development within a one-week period in the wrongful deportation case of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Thursday denied the Trump administration’s request for an emergency stay of a lower court order demanding Abrego Garcia’s return. Including the Supreme Court, this is now the [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) suspended attorney Erez Reuveni on Saturday for failing to “zealously advocate on behalf of the United States.” The said failure refers to Reuveni’s open admission in court that the DOJ committed an administrative error by removing Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia from the US. Garcia is an El Salvador national [...]

A US federal court in Massachusetts ordered on Friday that Tufts University doctoral student Rumeysa Ozturk not be removed from the US until the court has had an opportunity to determine whether it has subject matter jurisdiction to hear the case. Judge Denise Casper noted precedents confirming that the court has the authority “to preserve [...]

A second US federal court on Friday blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order targeting yet another law firm — Jenner & Block LLP. This order comes the same day Judge Richard Leon of the same federal court blocked Trump’s executive order targeting Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP (WilmerHale). Judge John Bates has granted [...]

A US federal court partially granted Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP’s request for a temporary restraining order (TRO) and injunctive relief on Friday, blocking §§ 3 and 5 of President Donald Trump’s executive order titled “Addressing Risks from WilmerHale.” The executive order in question criticized the firm’s employment of former Special Counsel Robert [...]