Texas Lawyer Harassed At Home By Federal Agents, Fired By His Employer After He Tells His Story

Texas Lawyer Harassed At Home By Federal Agents, Fired By His Employer After He Tells His Story

Radley Balko’s post on Substack details an ordeal, however brief, Texas appellate lawyer Clayton Jackson suffered through recently. A longer one possibly awaits, thanks to his employer firing him shortly after he went public with his recounting of this unwanted interaction. Balko’s opening paragraph explains why the Trump Administration has hit law firms and universities with punitive executive orders. It explains why it’s blocking certain news …

Trump Sets His Sights On International Lawyers - See Also - Above the Law

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Trump team brags about forcing law firms to ‘bend the knee’

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at "reinvigorating America’s beautiful clean coal industry"—and said he will use the Big Law firms he shook down to help him in that effort. The executive order directs the federal...

Biglaw Firms Now Tied to Trump’s Police State Agenda After Executive Order Targets Sanctuary Cities

Trump Escalates Authoritarian Push with Executive Order Targeting Sanctuary Cities In a dramatic and controversial move, former President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at expanding federal control over immigration enforcement by penalizing sanctuary cities and militarizing domestic law enforcement. The order, which was released on April 28, 2025, calls for direct involvement of the U.S. military in law enforcement operations—openl…

Dan Rodricks: An attorney from Baltimore takes a stand against Trump's attacks on law firms

On his LinkedIn page, J. B. Howard, Gilman alum and former Deputy Attorney General of Maryland, describes himself as “passionate about law, legal advocacy, and democracy.”So, if true to that credo, such a man would reject as unholy Donald Trump’s efforts to use the power of his office to punish law firms that had a hand in the serious legal challenges, including criminal charges, he faced between presidencies.Federal judges and Democrats in Cong…

Elite law firms in the United States have concerned jurists and their own lawyers by accepting demands imposed by the Donald Trump administration that, in the opinion of critics, violate basic constitutional rights and may contribute to weakening the American rule of law. Read more (04/30/2025)