If you were looking for a case study in how not to run a criminal investigation, congratulations: the Trump-era Department of Justice has prepared one for you, complete with a grand jury no-bill and prosecutors who apparently could not identify a single s... See more
California Attorney General Rob Bonta isn’t going to pretend the Biglaw deals with Trump are anything but terrible. In a recent sitdown with Bloomberg News, Bonta took direct aim at the nine Biglaw firms that struck deals with the Trump administration — a... See more
Today a federal court rejected the “let’s just ignore the last year” theory advanced by the government in the saga of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Abrego Garcia is, of course, the man the Trump administration famously and wrongly deported to an El Salvadoran sla... See more
When a Trump-appointed federal judge is telling Immigration and Customs Enforcement that it cannot simply toss the Constitution in the shredder because compliance is “inconvenient,” you know things have gone seriously off the rails. U.S. District Judge Na... See more
Another day, another federal judge having to explain to the Trump administration that court orders are not optional suggestions. This time, the lecture came from Judge Matthew Kennelly of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, who ... See more
