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
The Associated Press: Tracking the lawsuits against the Trump administration.
Just Security: Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions.
Lawfare: Trump Administration Litigation Tracker.
The 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 13. Melina Khan: MA Attorney General sues Trump administration for attempt to dismantle Education Department.
March 13. Josh Gerstein & Kyle Cheney: Thousands of fired federal workers must be rehired immediately, judge rules.
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.
March 30. The New York Times: Our Law Firm Won’t Cave to Trump. Who Will Join Us?
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.
April 22. CBS News: Federal judge orders Trump administration to rehire all Voice of America and Radio Free Asia staff.
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.
May 22. Kimmy Yam & Chloe Atkins: Federal judge blocks Trump administration from revoking international students’ legal status.
May 29. Dietrich Knauth & Daniel Wiessner: US court blocks most Trump tariffs, says president exceeded his authority.
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 19. Erik Uebelacker: Trump barred from using transit funds to force states’ compliance with ICE.
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.
June 27. Melissa Quinn: Judge finds Trump executive order punishing Susman Godfrey law firm unconstitutional.
June 27. Jennifer Bendery: Groups File Nationwide Class Action Lawsuit Over Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order.
July 14. Ewan Palmer: DOJ Lawyers Quit in Droves After Being Ordered to Defend Trump.
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.
September 2. Shawn Hubler: Judge Says Trump’s Use of Troops in L.A. Is Illegal: The federal judge found that the deployment exceeded legal limits that generally prohibit the use of the military for domestic law enforcement.
September 3. NPR: Trump administration illegally froze billions in Harvard funds, judge rules.
September 4. Ahmed Baba: Judges Rebuke Trump’s Fake Emergencies, Dealing A Series Of Blows To His Authoritarian Power Grabs.
September 19. Curt Anderson: Federal judge tosses Trump’s $15B defamation lawsuit against New York Times.
September 25. Carrie Johnson: Former special counsel Jack Smith warns that rule of law is ‘under attack.’
October 28. Jessica Corbett: Judge Indefinitely Blocks Trump Admin From Firing Federal Workers During Shutdown.
November 9. Mark L. Wolf: Why I Am Resigning: A federal judge explains his reasoning for leaving the bench.
November 11. Steve Kennedy: The Legal Professionals Planning to March Against Trump: Recent history has shown that attorneys and jurists can play a big role in bringing their nations back from the brink of autocracy. That day is coming for us as well.
November 15. Carla Herreria Russo: US judge bars Trump administration from cutting off University of California funds: Federal judge Rita Lin cites playbook designed to bring universities ‘to their knees’ and force them to ‘change their ideological tune.’
November 16. Emily Bazelon & Rachel Poser: The Unraveling of the Justice Department: Sixty attorneys describe a year of chaos and suspicion.
November 18. Jacob Knutson: Tennessee Judge Blocks Trump-Requested Military Deployment in Memphis.
November 28. Brianna Tucker: Retired judges warn that the rule of law is unraveling.
December 3. Martin Austermuhle: Federal judge limits warrantless immigration arrests in D.C.
December 8. Maxine Joselow & Brad Plumer:Federal Judge Finds Trump’s Halt on Wind Energy Is Illegal: The president ordered a stop to permits for all wind farms on federal lands and waters. A judge called that “capricious.”
December 8. Union of Concerned Scientists: Court Orders Trump Administration to Release Records of Secret Group That Wrote Report Attacking Climate Science.
December 10. Kat Lonsdorf: Judge blocks Trump’s National Guard deployment in LA with sharp rebuke.
December 12. Dan Diamond & Jonathan Edwards: National Trust sues to stop Trump’s ballroom construction:The organization, which is charged by Congress with historic preservation, has retained President Barack Obama’s former lawyer as it seeks to pause the project.