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

There’s important background to the Trump-Patel FBI arrest of Judge Hannah Dugan following ICE’s attempt to use her courtroom as a place to find and arrest an immigrant. Learn more here: https://statecourtreport.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/ices-new-courthouse-arrest-policy-set-them-collision-course-state-courts

Washington State Sues Trump Administration Over Unlawful Conditions on Funding for K-12 Schools https://www.atg.wa.gov/news/news-releases/washington-state-sues-trump-administration-over-unlawful-conditions-funding-k-12

The most detailed reporting yet on ICE efforts to make an arrest in Judge Hannah Dugan’s courtroom, her own arrest by the FBI and where things stand now. https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/breaking/2025/04/25/milwaukee-county-judge-hannah-dugan-arrested-by-feds-at-courthouse/83270885007/

If you are in or near #Milwaukee TODAY, there is a rally at 3 pm to call for charges against Judge Hannah Dugan to be dropped. https://www.mobilize.us/wfpower/event/781576/ #FreeJudgeDugan

Washington state joins coalition of AGs supporting law firm singled out by executive order https://www.atg.wa.gov/news/news-releases/washington-state-joins-coalition-ags-supporting-law-firm-singled-out-executive

Further reporting on the arrest of Judge Hannah Dugan by the FBI for allegedly helping an immigrant in her court evade arrest by ICE. https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/breaking/2025/04/25/milwaukee-county-judge-hannah-dugan-arrested-by-feds-at-courthouse/83270885007/

The FBI, headed by Kash Patel, has arrested a judge for allegedly helping an immigrant “evade arrest.” News item at https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/25/fbi-arrest-judge-hannah-dugan-milwaukee.html Statement from her U.S. Representative in photo.

Arizona AG Mayes and Oregon Dan Rayfield are leading a suit against Trump tariffs. Fellow attorneys general from Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, New York and Vermont have also joined the lawsuit.
https://www.azfamily.com/2025/04/23/insane-reckless-arizona-ag-joins-lawsuit-against-trump-administration-tariffs/

Law students from multiple law schools have put their names to a letter in which they refuse to work for firms giving in to Trump on DEI. They will only work for firms that stand up to Trump regime in specific ways. I urge you to read the letter. https://docs.google.com/document/d/10POW8J0MVRSNUvMm8zBpyYLW0d7VWlGxd50Nw-Ql9SI/edit?usp=drivesdk

I applaud the courage and integrity of these students. I’m especially proud of the signers who I taught. #LawFedi 1/2

I'm posting as I'm reading, because this is possibly the most strongly worded judicial opinion I've ever read - and I have read a lot of them. 3/

"Defendants—and their counsel—well know that the falsehood lies not in any supposed “premise,” but in their continued mischaracterization of the Supreme Court’s Order. ... Defendants’ objection reflects a willful and bad faith refusal to comply with discovery obligations. The objection is overruled." https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69777799/100/abrego-garcia-v-noem/

This doesn't bode well for the DoJ attorneys or their clients in the Trump regime. 2/

BIG. In the Abrego Garcia matter, Judge Xinis is not having any of the Trump regime's guff regarding discovery in the contempt-related proceedings in her court. The plaintiffs had asked for a status conference to deal with the nonresponsiveness of the Trump executive to questions submitted by them. Xinis held conference today and issued a ruling which starts with this: 1/ #LawFedi

The Trump executive has been making it sound like it wrongly irregular for the plaintiffs to seek emergency relief from the Supreme Court because at the time it was sought the judge in the Northern District of Texas had not ruled on the matters the plaintiffs wanted the Supreme Court to address. But, as the plaintiffs argue, [T]he government argues that [plaintiffs] jumped the gun, but that claim cannot be squared with the facts on the ground." 2/

Another 🧵, following up on this one https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/114378038565334378. I want to emphasize one aspect of the A.A.R.P. v. Trump (case re Venezuelans detained under Alien Enemies Act) plaintiffs' Supreme Court filing from today. The plaintiffs incisively correct the factual assertions made by the Trump regime about whether plaintiffs sought relief from the Fifth Circuit and the Supreme Court prematurely. 1/ #LawFedi https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/24A1007/356074/20250421045953494_2025.04.21%20AARP%20SCOTUS%20Reply_Final%20pdfa.pdf

Because he wasn’t carrying proof of citizenship, CPB jailed this American citizen for more than a week. https://news.azpm.org/p/news-articles/2025/4/18/224512-us-citizen-in-arizona-detained-by-immigration-officials-for-10-days/

Whether or not he sincerely believes that the problematic actor in this case is the Supreme Court, because the majority issued an order against removal, Alito has given fodder for members and fans of the Trump regime to say that it is the Supreme Court that is the bad actor here, when of course the heinous, untrustworthy, lawless, and anti-constitutional actor is the Trump executive. 10/10

I was just able to get a link for Alito’s dissent. I have added it to the first post in this thread and am putting it here too. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a1007_22p3.pdf 9/

And of course the reason the plaintiffs were seeking emergency relief all day is because they had no reason to think the Trump regime wouldn’t be shipping people to El Salvador in the middle of the night, when it would be even more disruptive for the trial court just, as well as potentially futile, to be filing for an emergency TRO. 8/

Thus, Alito makes it sound like the plaintiffs foolishly or unreasonably waited until mid-afternoon to seek relief, when in fact they had been trying all day to get an emergency injunction from the trial court. 7/

Furthermore, the plaintiffs filed when they did in part because the district court had rejected their first TRO motion, lodged earlier in the day, based on the first reports that the Trump regime was boarding detainees onto buses to the airport, where they would then be flown to El Salvador. As more evidence of this came in, the plaintiffs filed the motion Alito is referring to. …6/