Legal Actions Against Trump

I have been busy with the NYSBA Annual meeting, so I have not had a chance to send updates this week. Let me begin to restart the process.   Please look at and consider whether you are comfortable liking and/or reposting my most recent LinkedIn postings entitled,...

Let me again request that you look and consider whether you are comfortable liking my most recent LinkedIn postings entitled,   Our Rule of Law and Trial Advocates which is a reposting of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) description of a recent...

You may wish to look at the following videos/audios   December 8, 2025 All Rise News segment entitled Trump’s firing powers seem primed for SCOTUS supercharge — Live with Leah Litman. A replay may be found...

I have made three recent LinkedIn posts that you may wish to look at and if possible like and repost: Our Rule of Law and FTC commissioner Dismissal post in general and on the YLS network that some of you can reach.  This presents two neutral discussions of the...

Please look at and consider whether you are comfortable liking and/or reposting my most recent LinkedIn postings entitled, The Rule of Law and International Law, which refers to a YLS posting about a Guadian article entitled, Willing states must act to save...

Today, I am focusing principally on the Supreme Court oral argument about the President’s authority to impose tariffs.  The Supreme Court is confronting three issues, which need not all be decided.  May Congress delegate tariff imposition powers to the President.  If...

You may wish to look at the following videos   October 15, 2025 Brennan Center for Justice Briefing entitled, Paying for Power. Speakers: Jane Mayer, Staff Writer, The New Yorker, Daniel I. Weiner, Director, Elections and Government Program, Brennan Center. Host,...

by Nate Silver Democrats are fighting mad about Trump-led Republican efforts to conduct mid-decade redistricting in Texas and other states in advance of next year’s midterms — and, perhaps for a change, they’re in a mood to fight back. Late last week, a UC...

You may wish to consider the following items in concert   July 25, 2025 Letter of DOJ to the House Speaker that the DOJ will not defend a June 20, 2025 lawsuit filed in Tennessee  challenging a federal program that provides $350 million in grant funding to colleges...

I don’t think the Court is ok, you guys.  This shadow docket order is a fascinating read.  This dispute amongst the justices is also quite a jarring contrast to the Trump v. CASA order on universal or nationwide injunctions (and definitely not birthright...

You may wish to consider the following in concert:   August 14, 2025 Report by Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration entitled, IRS Terminated Probationary Employees Without  Following Internal Procedures and Considering Individual Performance.  This...

You may wish to consider the following items in concert:     August 14, 2025 Slate column by Matt Watkins entitled, The Most Urgent Lesson for Democrats to Take From Trump’s D.C. Deployment.  The column concludes with the following paragraphs presenting a messaging...

Weekend Report You may find of interest the following items: August 9, 2025 DC order of federal Court of Appeals to the Office of Management and Budget to restore on or before Friday August 15, 2025 the public database about federal spending that researchers say is...

You may find the following of interest: On August 9, 2025, the Second Circuit explained why it rejected the government’s motion to substitute the United States as a party in the defamation action against President Trump by E. Jean Carroll. The motion was based on the...

On July 30, 2025, Judge Jamal N. Whitehead (W.D. Wash.) granted plaintiffs’ motion for class-action status in a case brought by refugee assistance groups challenging President Trump’s suspension of the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program. Judge Whitehead held that...

The International Court of Justice has held that there is a duty to exercise due diligence to address climate change as a matter of customary environmental law: 131. The Court turns now to consider the applicability and relevance of customarym international law. In...

You may first wish to consider the following litigation developments:   July 14, 2025 unsigned grant of stay by Supreme Court in McMahon v. New York of an injunction that had been upheld by the First Circuit Court of Appeals would have prevented the administration...

  July 7, 2025 Temporary Restraining Order by Judge Indira Talwani of the District Court of Massachusetts would prevent the Big Beautiful Bill from stopping Medicaid payments to institutions performing abortions.  The Complaint and the memorandum of law were also...

A number of you have expressed concern about two events today, the passage by the Congress of the Big Beautiful and the Supreme Court decision a second time to fail to support the District Court judge who sought to provide due process rights to non-citizens being sent...