New Firm Seeks to Confront Trump on Executive Power

The Washington Litigation Group is the latest nonprofit group to join the legal challenges against the president, with a strategy of focusing on appeals early in the case.

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Big Law Firms Bowed to Trump. A Corps of ‘Little Guys’ Jumped in to Fight Him.

Solo practitioners, former government litigators and small law offices stepped up to help challenge the Trump administration’s agenda in court after the White House sought to punish many big firms.

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Immigrants File Class-Action Lawsuit to Stop ICE Courthouse Arrests

The detentions have become a relatively easy way for Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to detain immigrants who are appearing for court dates.

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Rights Groups Sue to Overturn Agreement That Sends U.S. Immigrants to Salvadoran Jail

A lawsuit argues that deporting migrants to a notorious prison in El Salvador is unconstitutional.

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Fearing Trump, Some Law Firms Decline Pro Bono Immigration Cases

Fearing the wrath of President Trump, some elite law firms are declining pro bono work on lawsuits challenging the administration’s policies.

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2 Judges Order Federal Agencies to Unfreeze Climate Money

The rulings are setbacks to Trump’s efforts to halt climate and environmental funding approved under the Biden administration.

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Venezuelan Migrants Ask Supreme Court to Block Deportations

Lawyers for Venezuelan migrants asked the justices to keep in place a pause on President Trump’s deportation plan, calling it “completely at odds” with limited wartime authority given by Congress.

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Court Face-Off on Deportations Tests Trump’s Power to ‘Find and Declare’ Facts

The litigation unleashed by President Trump’s second term, combined with his distortions and lies, is testing the judicial system’s practice of deferring to the executive branch’s determinations about what is true.

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Six Fired Federal Workers Temporarily Reinstated by Review Board

The decision could apply more broadly to thousands of other government employees who were fired because they were on probationary status and relatively new in their positions.

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Government Watchdog Moves to Protect Probationary Federal Workers

Hampton Dellinger, the head of the Office of Special Counsel, recommended pausing the mass firings of some probationary federal employees.

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