This page is part of a resource collection on organizing against the second Trump administration.
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Resources
Cross Cultural Solidarity: Resource collection on Trump’s Authoritarian Assault on the Legal Profession.
Law Student Firm Pledge. This pledge is organized by law students to counter the lawlessness of the Trump administration and major firms’ cowardice in responding.
Legal Industry Responses to Fascist Attacks Tracker.
Litigation trackers:
- Associated Press: Tracking the lawsuits against the Trump administration.
- Just Security: Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions.
- Lawfare: Trump Administration Litigation Tracker.
- New York Times: Tracking the Lawsuits Against Trump’s Agenda.
News: 2025
March 6. Hafiz Rashid: Federal Judge Slaps Down Trump, Says U.S. Constitution Has No Kings: A court has just dealt a major blow to legal Trump’s attempted takeover of the NLRB.
March 10. Lexi Lonas Cochran: Judge halts effort to deport Columbia protest leader.
March 19. Melissa Quinn: Judge finds Elon Musk and DOGE’s shutdown of USAID likely unconstitutional.
March 20. ACLU: A Statement from Constitutional Law Scholars on Columbia.
March 21. Erwin Chemerinsky (Dean of the UC Berkeley Law School): Capitulation to Trump spells inordinate danger.
March 22. PBS: Associates at prominent law firms urge their employers to withstand pressure from Trump.
March 24. Rebecca Hamilton: The Imperative of Solidarity in Response to Assaults on Legal Services, Universities, and Independent Media.
March 25. Patrick Smith & Doha Madani: Judge rules Columbia protester Yunseo Chung can’t be detained as she fights deportation.
March 26. The Guardian: US court upholds block on deportation of some Venezuelans in blow to Trump.
March 26. The New York Times: Federal Judiciary Creates New Task Force With Threats on the Rise: The panel will be led by a federal judge from Maryland, seeking to protect against threats as President Trump and his allies single out judges that have blocked parts of his agenda.
March 27. Peter Charalambous: Trump probably ‘violated the law’ when he fired independent watchdogs, judge says.
March 27. Alan Feuer: Judge Moves to Prevent Hegseth, Waltz and Others From Deleting Houthi Texts.
March 28. Politico: Two more law firms targeted by Trump sue to block punishing executive orders: Jenner & Block and WilmerHale are now the second and third firms to fight Trump in court.
April 4. Ben Protess: More Than 500 Law Firms Back Perkins Coie in Fight With Trump.
April 10. Nate Raymond: US judge to block Trump from revoking thousands of migrants’ legal status.
April 10. Reuters: Supreme court orders US to help return man wrongly deported to El Salvador.
April 16. AP News: The EPA can’t end grants from $20 billion Biden-era fund for climate-friendly projects, a judge says.
May 1. Laura N. Pérez Sánchez: Attacks on Judges Undermine Democracy, Warns Justice Jackson Speaking to a judicial conference: the Supreme Court justice said attacks were designed to intimidate and influence.
May 9. Adam Liptak: Justice Sotomayor Says Lawyers Must ‘Stand Up’ and ‘Fight This Fight’
May 21. Charlie Savage: Trump’s Firings of Rights Watchdog Board Members Were Illegal, Judge Rules.
June 16. Mark Berman: American Bar Association sues Trump administration over law firm sanctions. The group said President Donald Trump was trying to intimidate lawyers and law firms to prevent them from challenging him in court.
June 18. Sophie Sullivan: USC Agents of Change establishes hotline to help move immigration hearings online
June 24. Justin Jouvenal and Ann E. Marimow: Tracking lawsuits against the Trump administration’s initiatives. We’re tracking key cases covering President Donald Trump’s actions on immigration, law firms, worker firings, DOGE cuts, transgender care and more.
August 4. Casey Gannon: New non-profit law firm in DC aims to challenge Trump’s executive power.
July 10. Chris Bowers: Trump Is Losing in Court Far More Often Than He Is Winning.
August 29. Scott Horsley & Rafael Nam: Most of President Trump’s tariffs are illegal, U.S. court rules.
August 29. Associated Press: Court blocks Trump bid to end protections for 600,000 Venezuelans.