This page is part of a resource collection on organizing against the second Trump administration.  See also: Trump’s Authoritarian Assault on the Legal Profession.

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Resources

Just Security: Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions.

Legal Industry Responses to Fascist Attacks Tracker.

Articles: 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 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.