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

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/

I want to make sure people know that in the U.S. a Presidential executive order is not a law. It is an internal memo from the head of the Executive to others in that branch. The President has no constitutional authority to legislate or adjudicate the law. 1/

I am amplifying every law firm that shows integrity and professional excellence by publicly standing with the law firms Trump targets specifically. Noting here and on LinkedIn. Yes, I want to give them as much free publicity as I can. Firms so far: 1/

The Norton Law Firm; Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein; Ramparts; Williams & Connolly; Clement & Murphy; Keker; Munger Tolles. 2/

Howell and the DC Circuit Court both rejected Trump’s claims that the Alien Enemies Act authorizes him to send people out of the country without giving them any notice or opportunity to rebut the supposed factual/legal bases of the the government’s classification of them as enemy aliens. 2/

Trump has appealed the emergency TRO granted by Judge Boasberg in the Venezuelan rendition case, a TRO upheld by the DC Circuit court, the first court of appeals. https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25872802/24a931.pdf 1/ #LawFedi

I explained the substance of the J.G.G. v. Trump suit here: https://heidi-says.ghost.io/trump-aiming-for-contempt-of-court-fight-to-be-on-his-terms/. In that blog post I also explained why Trump is rushing to get the suit in front of the Supreme Court… 4/