By Marcia Coyle | June 15, 2017
Donald Verrilli Jr., the former U.S. solicitor general, was twice confronted by the justices over how presidential statements affected the government's litigation positions. What about President Donald Trump's comments on his travel-ban orders? The challengers have made "a reasonably strong" case that Trump's tweets and comments are legally fair game, Verrilli says.
By Marcia Coyle | June 12, 2017
In what may be a first at the U.S. Supreme Court, President Donald Trump's Twitter account was identified Monday as an "authority" along with the cases, law review articles and news citations that lawyers typically use to bolster their arguments.
By Marcia Coyle | June 12, 2017
A federal appellate court on Monday handed President Donald Trump his second major defeat in a month after finding his executive order suspending immigration from six Muslim nations and the U.S. refugee program violated federal law.
By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys | June 8, 2017
Texas' new "sanctuary city" law prompts the American Immigration Lawyers Association to move 2018 convention out of Texas.
By Tony Mauro | June 5, 2017
The president attacked the courts and his own Justice Department in a flurry of early-morning tweets regarding his travel ban order.
By Cogan Schneier | June 2, 2017
Longtime government attorneys and Big Law litigators are among the familiar names leading the travel ban appeal.
By Cheryl Miller | June 1, 2017
California's Assembly on Thursday ended its contract with Covington & Burling for guidance on fighting Trump administration policies—even as the state Senate pledged to continue working with the firm.
By Cogan Schneier | May 25, 2017
Don't have time to read all 200 pages of the Fourth Circuit travel ban decision? Here are some of the highlights.
By Cheryl Miller | May 25, 2017
California Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye said the state Supreme Court chambers were flooded with calls from "profane and very angry people" after she asked federal officials in March to stop arresting undocumented immigrants in state courthouses. "If I couldn't speak out as chief justice, I don't know who could," she said Thursday.
By Cogan Schneier | May 25, 2017
Thursday's opinion keeps in place a Maryland district court's nationwide injunction against the order, issued March 6.
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