A Bloomberg Law report from April 10, 2026 highlights a troubling pattern of errors and inaccuracies by U.S. Justice Department lawyers in federal courts, raising concerns among judges about the DOJ’s credibility. In March alone, DOJ attorneys disclosed relying on incorrect information in an immigration case in Manhattan, made inaccurate statements in a Rhode Island …
On April 7, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison led a coalition of 22 state attorneys general in filing a formal comment opposing a proposed DOJ rule (OAG199) that would require state bar disciplinary authorities to defer investigations into DOJ attorney misconduct to the department’s own internal review process — and would subject states that refuse …
The Trump administration has been engaged in a legal battle against several prominent law firms — Perkins Coie, WilmerHale, Jenner & Block, and Susman Godfrey — after issuing executive orders targeting them for representing clients and causes the president opposes. When the firms fought back, federal district courts ruled against the administration, finding the executive …
The American Bar Association filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in April 2026, urging the court to affirm lower court rulings striking down Trump executive orders that imposed severe sanctions on four law firms — Perkins Coie, Jenner & Block, WilmerHale, and Susman Godfrey — for representing …
Democratic attorneys general have filed their 100th lawsuit against the Trump administration as part of a coordinated legal strategy, claiming wins in 55 of 67 cases that have reached court rulings so far. The suits span a wide range of issues including environmental regulations, immigration enforcement, withheld congressional funding, and tariffs, with the latest challenge …
The latest NY Times opinion by By Duncan Hosie, a legal scholar at the Stanford Constitutional Law Centerar, gues that courts alone cannot stop Trump’s attacks on constitutional norms because constitutional law depends on leaders respecting legal limits, and Trump instead treats the law as something to manipulate while using delay, uncertainty, and pressure to weaken …
A Washington Post investigation published March 19 found that federal inspectors general — the independent watchdogs legally mandated to investigate waste, fraud, and abuse across executive agencies — have lost approximately 16.6% of their workforce since January 2025, outpacing broader government downsizing. The administration carried out a mass firing of inspectors general in early 2025, …
On March 19, sitting federal judges convened an extraordinary public forum organized by the group Speak Up for Justice, during which they read aloud profane and violent threats they had personally received — including voicemails threatening to “put a bullet in your head” — as part of a coordinated effort to document and condemn the …
In an unusually direct public intervention on March 17, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. declared that personal criticism of federal judges is “dangerous” and “has got to stop,” in remarks widely interpreted as directed at the Trump administration and its congressional allies. Roberts’ statement came as federal judges across the country faced a documented surge …
A federal judge issued a 130-page ruling on March 9 disqualifying three Justice Department officials whom Attorney General Pam Bondi had installed to jointly oversee the U.S. Attorney’s Office in New Jersey — finding that the arrangement was implemented unlawfully. The case began when Trump’s original nominee, his former personal attorney Alina Habba, was barred …