BIG, JUST IN: Judge Charles Breyer finds that President Trump exceeded the scope of his authority and violated the 10th Amendment by federalizing the California National Guard and orders him to return control to Governor Newsom. 1/
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.450934/gov.uscourts.cand.450934.64.0.pdf #LawFedi
Folks here will notice that I’m less frequently detailing lower court opinions that attempt to stop the Trump regime’s lawless actions. This is because enough time has passed for enough appeals to reach the U.S. Supreme Court for U.S. to know that no matter how carefully a lower court judge explains and supports her rulings, the Supreme Court will act as lawlessly as the Trump executive. 1/ #LawFedi
The majority of sitting justices on the U.S. Supreme Court have, once again, greenlit wholly unconstitutional action by the Trump regime. In a shadow docket order, the court has lifted a stay preventing the regime from acting on Trump’s executive order to gut the staff of the Dept of Education so that it becomes de facto defunct. 1/ #LawFedi
Wilkie, one of the big law firms that capitulated to Trump,is hemorrhaging partners and associates — and departing associates in particular are becoming bolder in publicly condemning the firm. https://www.law.com/2025/06/18/as-willkie-exits-grow-associates-are-publicly-criticizing-trump-deal/ #LawFedi
Interesting and good preliminary result in U of California researchers class action against Trump regime for yanking their grants. https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2025/06/health-research-california/ #LawFedi
Do read this transcript, related to efforts of the federal judiciary in New Jersey to ensure a lawfully appointed U.S. Attorney there. Undercovered situation.
Read the entire document, I promise it is worth it. #LawFedi
Edit: only way to share this is via screenshots. Also at NYT https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/nyregion/judge-quraishi-new-jersey-attorneys-office.html?unlocked_article_code=1.UFA.cDP0.TdXwJuyKyZ8n&smid=url-share
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Ok, take a deep breath everyone. I’m going to try to explain what is going on in California v. Trump/League of Women Voters v. Trump, the combined cases being heard by Judge Indira Talwani in the Massachusetts District Court, challenging Trump and USPS efforts to take over vote-from-home and disrupt the general election. 1/ #LawFedi
Reports of a new corrupt shadow docket ruling from the Roberts Court, this time to allow Alabama to interfere with an election already underway. https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/scotus-greenlights-11th-hour-alabama-redistricting-plan-for-2026-election/
I'm checking details and will share further thoughts if I have any. #LawFedi
You know how courts (looking at you Supreme Court) manipulate history to get the outcome they want?
Well they manipulate science too.
Please check out my newest law review article which explores "law office science" in decisions on mifepristone and gender affirming care.
Link to Law Office Science: buff.ly/bIar0zZ
#SupremeCourt #lawfedi #Fedilaw #abortion #LGBTQ #science #medicine
Good work from Arizona Secretary of State, using federal laws to ground a suit to block the conversion of a warehouse in Surprise, AZ to an ICE camp. This article is detailed and informative re local people’s opposition to the camp, reluctance of local officials to work against it, and intelligence of the state AG’s legal strategy. https://azmirror.com/2026/04/24/arizona-ag-sues-trump-over-surprise-immigration-detention-warehouse/ #LawFedi
Tonight, an extraordinary order, opinion, and dissent make explicit that the ongoing cold Second American Civil War is raging at the U.S. Supreme Court, as it is throughout the U.S. 1/ #LawFedi
District Court judge permanently enjoins the “Kennedy Declaration,” voiding the regime’s effort to heavily curtail gender-affirming care. As always nowadays, we can’t count on higher federal courts to uphold this judgment. But no matter what we have another example of a trial court judge showing what it is to do justice in the face of fascism. 1/ https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ord.191371/gov.uscourts.ord.191371.93.0_1.pdf #LawFedi
The Roberts Court has completed its evisceration of the Voting Rights Act.
In direct contradiction to history, law, and present reality, Alito, Thomas, Roberts, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett have decreed that even the post-Civil War Constitution enshrines white supremacy in the U.S. 1/ #LawFedi
RE: https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/116488909886938621
Immediately after the hideous *Callais* decision, gutting the VRA, the governor of Louisiana issued an order canceling primary elections already underway there. 1/ #LawFedi
Saw that two Capitol police officers have sued to stop Trump’s corrupt payouts to J6 rioters. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-slush-fund-lawsuit-jan-6-police-officers-b2980482.html Story said they are represented by the Public Integrity Project, which was new to me. So I checked it out. 1/ #LawFedi
RE: https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/116558499921978341
Finally had a chance to read Sotomayor’s dissent from the shadow docket order. She was joined by Kagan and Jackson, so all six of the justices in the tank for Trump and Republican Fascism were on board with stopping an election already underway. Opinion at https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/25-243_f20h.pdf 1/ #LawFedi
Here’s a very accessible explication of how Trump is trying to use the USPS to control voting in the midterms, how unconstitutional it is, why we can’t count on the Roberts court to respect that obvious point, and how much power states clearly have to run elections as they choose to and therefore to circumvent Trump and any rulings from the corrupt Supreme Court. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/anti-constitution-extortion-and-trumps-vote-rigging-schemes/sharetoken/e5823db5-35ff-42f4-8af0-c3a8926515e6
I also like Josh Marshall’s name for states who fight the Trump regime: Free States. #LawFedi
New Jersey DOJ suing GEO Group on behalf of New Jersey’s Commissioner of Health, seeking to compel GEO to give full access for proper health inspections at Delaney Hall. https://www.njoag.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/2026-0602_Verified-Complaint.pdf #LawFedi 1/
Yesterday, I had a planning meeting for the next Leaders from Law workshop. LFLis an organization I founded and run. It focuses on training progressive law students and early career progressive lawyers to run for office in the U.S. We began right after Trump was elected in 2016. Now, our mission is deeper and even more serious. 1/ #LawFedi
https://www.leadersfromlaw.com/
Best recap I’ve seen of the just ended Supreme Court term’s anti-democracy agenda. Well worth reading. https://www.ms.now/opinion/supreme-court-birthright-citizenship-kavanaugh-dissent #LawFedi
Important development in holding gun industry civilly accountable for their role in gun violence. The Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal from gun makers who sought to invalidate New York’s statute grounding lawsuits against firearms industry members who create a public nuisance. News report at https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-turns-away-challenge-new-york-firearms-liability-law-rcna349068. Fuller analysis in this 🧵. 1/ #LawFedi
The Trump regime’s refusal to seek Senate confirmation for U.S. Attorney appointments has not received the attention it should. The latest development is in Seattle. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/16/trump-fires-us-attorney-roger-rogoff-seattle 1/ #LawFedi
RE: https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/117209346171417433
In the thread at the quoted post, I focused on the status of the litigation against Trump/USPS unconstitutionally taking over the process of ballots being mailed to voters who vote from home (e.g, voters who use absentee ballots or vote-by-mail ballots). Bottom line, Trump DoJ sure is acting like they know the Roberts Six will find a way to ok this on procedural grounds, leaving the merits of the case unaddressed.
But let’s suppose for a moment that this doesn’t happen. 1/ #LawFedi
