ICE Turns Lawyers Away at Minneapolis Detention Facility
“attorneys say the Trump administration is again denying detainees meaningful access to counsel.”
https://reason.com/2026/01/22/ice-turns-lawyers-away-at-minneapolis-detention-facility/
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ICE Lawyer Ruins Her Life
ICE has been capturing people here legally and detaining them far away from where they were picked up. When courts find out about this and order ICE to release individuals, ICE sometimes doesn’t follow the orders. ICE Lawyers have been overwhelmed defending ICE’s lawlessness. One of ICE’s own lawyers admitted that when she tells them they have to release people held illegally, they don’t follow through because they don’t respect the courts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6o-_2thaI8
Why One Lawyer Resigned When His Firm Caved to Trump: An Update
Multiple law firms gave in to illegal, autocratic demands by the president. When it came down to it, big law firms didn’t want to risk resisting an aggressive president. Democracy is vulnerable and we won’t keep it unless people defend it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8mCMe9MDpk
Senate Democrats raise concerns over Pentagon plan to use military lawyers as immigration judges
“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth approved sending up to 600 military lawyers to the Justice Department to serve as temporary immigration judges. It is part of the steps the Trump administration has taken to use the military in broader ways than previously seen, particularly in its immigration crackdown, including sending the National Guard into American cities and deploying active duty troops to the U.S.-Mexico border.
“These military officers would serve under the command and control of the Attorney General and would execute administrative determinations at the direction of the Attorney General,” according to the letter signed by 12 Democrats on the Senate Armed Services Committee. It added that “these actions are inherently law enforcement actions that may not be performed by members of the armed forces.””
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/senate-democrats-raise-concerns-over-171333714.html
Trump Is Building His Own Paramilitary Force | The Ezra Klein Show
Trump ran on mass deportation. Mass deportation inherently requires removing a lot of hard working good people against their will because they crossed a geographic line they weren’t supposed to. If you voted for him thinking he would only remove criminals, then you didn’t pay enough objective attention.
But, Trump is doing more than that. He is violating due process–a basic right to all people. He is forcing a mass of people into detention centers where it is difficult for their family and lawyers to reach them, and where conditions are sometimes abysmal. Trump is using troops and law enforcement to do demonstrations to strike fear.
The militarization of criminal justice can lead to the end of democracy and basic rights.
The administration is actively making it more difficult for those accused of immigration violations to get a lawyer. They are sending police to lawyers’ houses apparently to intimidate them. They are making student loan repayment more difficult for lawyers who defend immigrants.
Masked men who don’t identify themselves and force you into custody is not how democracies do law enforcement.
Trump has purged parts of the military and replaced them with unqualified sycophants. Instead of lawyers telling Trump that what he wants to do is illegal so he can’t do it, this term he has people finding excuses for him to do undemocratic things.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcTZ_en5FTM
‘This is sending a message’: DOJ moves to sanction lawyer who took pro bono deportation case
“The Trump administration is escalating its efforts to punish lawyers whom it sees as obstacles to the president’s agenda.
The Justice Department is asking a federal judge to impose “substantial monetary sanctions” on a California lawyer who briefly halted but ultimately failed to block the deportation of an immigrant from Laos who pleaded guilty to attempted murder in the 1990s.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/06/justice-department-sanctions-immigration-lawyer-00496886
Boston Judge Dismisses Over 120 Cases Because There Aren’t Enough Public Defense Attorneys
“Bar advocates in the state are among the lowest paid in New England, receiving $65 per hour in Massachusetts compared to nearly double or more in nearby states, including Rhode Island ($112 per hour), New Hampshire ($125 per hour), and Maine ($150 per hour). Private practice work can yield $300 per hour. But, despite the stoppage, the 2026 fiscal year budget signed on July 4 by Healy didn’t include an increase in hourly pay.”
https://reason.com/2025/07/25/boston-judge-dismisses-over-120-cases-because-there-arent-enough-public-defense-attorneys/
The Fallout Is Growing on Trump’s Deals With Law Firms
“It has been several months since the first major law firm brokered a deal with Trump to get out from under an executive order penalizing the firm for conducting work or hiring lawyers that the White House disfavors. Eight firms followed that precedent in order to avoid becoming targeted themselves, ultimately committing a combined total of nearly $1 billion in pro bono legal services to largely unspecified initiatives supported by the Trump administration. Four firms refused to buckle and successfully challenged the orders targeting them in federal district court in Washington, D.C.”
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/07/10/trump-law-firms-deals-mess-column-00445259
Pam Bondi fires three Jan. 6 prosecutors, sending another chill through DOJ workforce
If fired for appropriately investigating the president or his allies, then this is a great degradation of the rule of law. The U.S. cannot call itself a strong democracy when administrations can punish people for proper legal investigations. Future prosecutors and investigators will have to think twice before investigating any potential crimes by Trump or his friends.
“At least three federal prosecutors who worked on cases against Jan. 6 rioters were fired Friday by the Justice Department, according to more than half a dozen current and former officials familiar with the dismissals.
A copy of one of the dismissal letters seen by NBC News was signed by Attorney General Pam Bondi, notifying the recipient that they were “removed from federal service effective immediately.” No reason for the removal was stated in the letter.”…”The Trump administration in late January fired probationary federal prosecutors who worked on Jan. 6 cases and prosecutors who worked on former special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into President Donald Trump. The administration also demoted some career prosecutors who worked on the Capitol siege investigation.Probationary workers are either recent hires or have taken new positions.The firings on Friday, though, marked the first time that career prosecutors who had worked Jan. 6 cases and who were past their probationary period of federal employment had been fired.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/pam-bondi-fires-two-jan-225031625.html
Schumer wants to block Trump’s nominee for a top federal prosecutor. Trump may have a workaround.
“By law, Clayton will be allowed to serve as interim U.S. attorney for 120 days. If the White House doesn’t nominate anyone else by the end of that interim period, the judges of the federal district court in Manhattan could vote to appoint him to remain in the job. He could then serve until the Senate confirmed a nominee — and if Trump wanted Clayton to remain in the job, the president could simply not nominate anyone else.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/18/trump-schumer-clayton-prosecutor-00299505