by HolAdmin | Apr 22, 2025 | American Legal News
When Donald Trump decided to attack Biglaw firms through a series of (likely unconstitutional) Executive Orders designed to extract a financial penalty for earning his displeasure and refusing to bend a knee, he was going after the rule of law, not just the firms...
by HolAdmin | Apr 22, 2025 | American Legal News
(Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) On Friday, the ACLU asked the Supreme Court if it actually trusted the Trump administration to follow the law and around 1 a.m. on Saturday morning, seven of the justices responded “LOL, no.” After already ordering the government to...
by HolAdmin | Apr 22, 2025 | American Legal News
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by HolAdmin | Apr 22, 2025 | American Legal News
(Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) There was a sense of optimism concerning the amount of havoc Donald and Co. could feasibly bring about before something would give and regulate their behavior. As early as February of this year, Justice Sonia Sotomayor shared...
by HolAdmin | Apr 21, 2025 | American Legal News
Lawyers On The Right And The Left Agree: What the Trump administration is doing is deeply disturbing. More Folks Are Quitting The Cowardly Firms That Made Deals With Trump: Simpson Thacher, Latham and Kirkland are down some quality attorneys — and they have no one to...
by HolAdmin | Apr 20, 2025 | American Legal News
Every so often, someone pings the tipster line and asks some variant of, “Why aren’t you more bipartisan?” Many times this is couched in a stream of expletives. Often it’s technically addressed to a guy that hasn’t worked here since before the pandemic. I don’t know...