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The lawyers leaving their Big Law jobs to fight the White House
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At the start of the Trump Administration, Daniel Jacobson left his job as an associate at Arnold & Porter to start his own firm. The new firm defends agencies and employees who are targeted by the new administration.
The Guardian reports on the growing trend of fed up lawyers leaving legacy firms: “The new firms are a response to the political moment and what’s happening to lawyers and other people in society that are being targeted,” said Scott Cummings, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles who studies legal ethics. “They’re doing it in this very specific context, that I think is great, because they’re also filling in gaps now that we’re seeing happening in the context of these big law firms that are no longer that interested maybe in bringing cases that are going to put them on the wrong side of the government.”
We failed refugees during the Holocaust, and we’re about to repeat the same mistakes
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Libya is a notorious for its abuse of immigrants, and yet that is where the Trump administration has proposed sending refugees—a move that would break refugee protections established after WWII. In a new essay for the LA Times, UC Law, San Francisco professor Karen Musalo compares this move to the US’ shameful treatment of Holocaust refugees in 1939.
Professor Musalo is founding director of the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies at UC Law, San Francisco—a ChangeLawyers Legal Empowerment Fund grant partner.
In stunning exchange, DOJ tells SCOTUS exactly how it intends to ignore the Courts
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@msnbc The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on a series of Trump administration emergency requests seeking to limit the scope of nationwide injunctions that blocked the administration's executive order on birthright citizenship. MSNBC legal correspondent Lisa Rubin shares her BIGGEST takeaway from the arguments. #supremecourt #birthrightcitizenhip #amyconeybarrett #scotus #donaldtrump #politics #news ♬ original sound – MSNBC
Audio from last week’s birthright citizenship Trump v. CASA oral arguments captured a stunning moment: the administration’s top lawyer telling Justice Amy Coney Barrett that the DOJ may not comply with judicial orders.
Yes, we are still dealing with blatant redistricting racism
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MSNBC reports a 3hree judge panel of Republican appointed judges reprimanded the Alabama state legislature for defying court orders: “Try as we might, we cannot understand the 2023 Plan as anything other than an intentional effort to dilute Black Alabamians’ voting strength and evade the unambiguous requirements of court orders standing in the way.”
