Notices by Heidi Li Feldman (heidilifeldman@mastodon.social)

In the middle of the sheer hell that is this Trump regime, a former student brought me to tears with this, over on LinkedIn. (See highlight.) #LawFedi

Washington AG says RealPage and landlords conspired to harm tenants, violate Consumer Protection Act https://www.atg.wa.gov/news/news-releases/washington-ag-says-realpage-and-landlords-conspired-harm-tenants-violate

Bet Tim Cook is glad he cozied up to Trump.

Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1J_bcoMqt46L05As7GN4ZqH4j6XKeI-Dm4ytJPRFtrwo/edit?gid=287708862#gid=287708862 #LawFedi

(Please do not @ me about it being on google. I am not the creator of the sheet.)

‘When you met with the President you were first and foremost an officer of the court, not a CEO of a large commercial enterprise with a problem you wanted to put "behind" you like some class action suit. Nothing
short of the integrity of the entire legal system is at stake.” Founder Simon Rifkind’s granddaughters to Brad Karp, managing partner of Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison. 1/ https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/documenttools/9e5a560f646fec68/70456f00-full.pdf

Excellent discussion from Marc Elias, on Cory Booker and the importance of each one of us speaking up. https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-power-of-standing-up/
“[T]he power of individuals speaking out is what despots fear the most. It is why Putin jailed and killed Navalny. It is why China prohibits individuals from engaging in even solo acts of protest or posting certain content on social media.”

Attorney General Bonta Joins Coalition Opposing Federal Legislation That Would Create Substantial Barriers to Voting https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-joins-coalition-opposing-federal-legislation-would-create

Attorney General Bonta Files Lawsuit Against Trump Administration Over Unlawful Termination of $11 Billion in Critical Public Health Funding https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-files-lawsuit-against-trump-administration-over-unlawful

Cory Booker thanks Chris Murphy for staying with him in the Senate chamber the entire time Booker has filibustered.

Senator Adam Schiff has placed a hold on Trump’s nominee for U.S. Attorney for D.C. https://www.schiff.senate.gov/news/press-releases/statement-sen-schiff-announces-hold-on-d-c-u-s-attorney-nominee-ed-martin/

This is what Dem Senators could and should have been doing for every one of Trump’s horrible nominees. But I commend Schiff for stepping up now.

A federal district court judge in NJ has just denied the Trump regime’s latest effort to have Mahmoud Khalil’s habeas corpus petition dismissed. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.njd.564334/gov.uscourts.njd.564334.153.0_1.pdf #LawFedi 1/

On Sen. Cory Booker’s YouTube channel there are now over 72,000 viewers of his ongoing filibuster. Booker is disrupting business as usual in the face of the very not usual Trump regime. https://www.youtube.com/live/v2utlMxAwtE?feature=shared

Attorney General Bonta, Assemblymember Haney Unveil Legislation to Protect 17 Million Californians From Unfair Rent Fees https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-assemblymember-haney-unveil-legislation-protect-17

Another federal judge finds conduct by the Trump regime so probably illegal and so harmful, the judge grants a temporary injunction preventing the conduct while full case is adjudicated: Noem may not deprive Venezuelans of their Temporary Protected Status and therefore may not deport them. Full order at https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25874870/tpsrlgchen033125.pdf

I could not be prouder of this Georgetown University Law Center student group. They were invited to an exclusive recruiting event with Skadden and withdrew because of Skadden’s preemptive capitulation to the Trump regime. Alanna, Caleb, and Carly were all students of mine.@ #LawFedi

Read this now: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/harriet-kirk-randolph_yesterday-i-was-fired-by-trumps-doge-team-activity-7311845089390002176-mgdY, by a young woman from U.S. Institute for Peace. Fired by DOGE yesterday, she writes eloquently about USIP and more.

Again, I don’t know if Trump knows or understands this. I am confident that whatever he knows about the actual force of an EO, he loves that they are called orders. He is also a master of using social media to give the impression that they are laws. 5/5

Nobody, other than executive branch officials, is obliged to do anything at all just because of something a President says in an executive order. 4/

In any event, if a President issues an executive order to other executive branch official directing them to do unlawful or unconstitutional things, the order is legally empty. Of course, an empty EO can still wreak havoc. 3/

Whether Trump himself understands that he has no constitutional authority to make laws is, of course, a separate question. 2/