Heidi Li Feldman

Donald Trump has been going after large law firms who represent clients and causes he doesn’t like. This started with his executive order stripping security clearances from any Covington & Burling lawyers and employees who assisted Special Counsel Jack Smith and directing all federal agencies to review any contracts

Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest and detention by the Trump DHS/ICE is in the news and the courts. Today, his lawyers have filed a motion to have ICE return him to New York, asking the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York to protect Khalil from

I haven’t been able to post here for the past couple of days because I was readying an article for forthcoming publication. From the Mundane to the Unprecedented to the Lawless: Litigating Civil Cases Against Firearms Industry Actors discusses, among other things, Estados Unidos Mexicanos v. Smith & Wesson,

This is a longer post than my usual, due to the significance and intricacy of its topic. On March 1, 2025, Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the District Court of the District of Columbia issued a critically important opinion. Jackson ruled on the merits of a Trump administration challenge to

[Note: As readership of Heidi Says has grown, it has been brought to my attention that some background on me might be useful. I’ve expanded the “About” page accordingly.] The scale and pace of Republican Fascist activities escalates daily. Bizarre, sadistic, dangerous measures spew from Trump, his overlord Musk,

Even for lawyers, keeping up with all the litigation filed against the Trump Executive Branch is hard. For nonlawyers, I imagine it is harder, especially because many of the suits make similar claims, seeking similar relief: injunctions – specific commands - to halt the conduct complained about. With the caveat that

As the Trump regime settles in, it menaces so much. I will spare you a list. Today, I kept feeling surges of fear. I tried to summon courage but it was hard. Then, I came across some examples of other people showing courage and it got easier for me to

NOTE BENE: Many of the links in this post go to archived web pages. I have done this in case the current live pages are taken down. Today, Engineering Director of the United States Digital Service (USDS) resigned in protest over the USDS's takeover by Trump's

Today, the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) finally put out a statement saying they are "very concerned" by Trump regime members questioning the "courts' authority to review the legality of executive action." The entire statement is fairly tepid compared to the one put out

There are a number of dimensions to the current, ongoing constitutional crisis in the United States, all of which arise from actions taken by the Trump regime. There is the burgeoning conflict between the federal executive and federal judiciary which is likely headed to a showdown over the executive'