Defend Democracy Project

An analysis by Demand Justice, a progressive advocacy group, identified more than 300 potential judicial appointment opportunities for Trump to radically shift the balance of the courts back in his favor.?Federal courts have served as a bulwark against illegal and unconstitutional actions early in the Trump administration. https://lnkd.in/gzEks_rn

The D.C. attorney general’s office has dropped a lawsuit against the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers over the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. The lawsuit marked the first attempt by a government agency to hold individuals and organizations civilly liable for the violence at the Capitol that day. https://lnkd.in/gmprzNRx

Yesterday, a federal judge questioned whether the Trump administration ignored his orders to turn around planes carrying deportees to El Salvador, a possible violation of the decision he’d issued minutes before. https://lnkd.in/eWgHBe82

Trump is ramping up attacks on law firms with ties to those who prosecuted him, now targeting Paul Weiss, the former firm of ex-Manhattan prosecutor Mark Pomerantz, who wrote in a 2022 letter published in the New York Times that Trump was "guilty of numerous felony violations." https://lnkd.in/g7PdY-Rb

Trump late Sunday evening declared the preemptive pardons issued by President Biden to members of the House January 6 Select Committee “void,” a power not granted to him by the Constitution. https://lnkd.in/gU5ZDrjz

The Trump administration has transferred hundreds of immigrants to El Salvador, even as a federal judge issued an order temporarily barring the deportations. The Trump administration has not provided evidence that the immigrants committed any crimes. https://lnkd.in/e7egUzq7

In an emergency appeal, President Trump asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to shelve three nationwide injunctions lower-court judges have issued against his bid to end birthright citizenship.? ? https://lnkd.in/gEGjRiyz

America's largest federal employees’ union filed a lawsuit on Thursday against the Homeland Security Department and its leadership to stop the Trump administration from canceling a collective bargaining agreement for Transportation Security Administration workers. ? https://lnkd.in/gKwYK7gh

It was a big win for federal workers yesterday: two judges ordered federal agencies to reinstate tens of thousands of workers with probationary status who had been fired across 19 agencies by the Trump administration. https://lnkd.in/emz--Yfi

Wednesday, a federal judge temporarily blocked parts of Trump's executive order targeting the prominent law firm Perkins Coie for its representation of Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign and for causes unpopular with his administration. The judge ruled that the order "casts a chilling harm of blizzard proportion across the entire legal profession." https://lnkd.in/gBrx29PU