Heidi Li Feldman

Just when you think you can't be more alarmed and disgusted by the Republican Fascist regime, further horrendous stuff happens. Just because none of it is surprising doesn't mean it isn't shocking. Nothing Trump, Musk, the Trump cabinet heads and other Trump appointees are

Even a (so-far) nonviolent constitutional crisis moves swiftly. So far today there have been significant developments in two ongoing lawsuits to check the unlawful, unconstitutional conduct of the Trump regime. Both bring us closer to the inevitable face-off between the federal judiciary and that regime. The two suits are both

Earlier today, I wrote about the dangerous trajectory toward violent conflict set off by the Trump regime's refusal to comply with federal court orders. Now, the twenty-three states who won an injunction to pause Trump's efforts to stop funding federal programs have filed a motion with

With organizations like Democracy Forward and Public Citizen winning court-ordered pauses in the various unlawful actions taken by Trump Cabinet officials kowtowing to Elon Musk's unlawful DOGE (which I urge everyone to call FIDO or DOGGY), we are quickly headed toward an unprecedented clash between two branches of

The point of this post is to offer some explanation of a lawsuit filed yesterday, February 3, Alliance for Retired Americans v. Bessent. The case may slow or stop Trump and Musk from implementing a constitutional coup, though from its title it might seem otherwise. The named defendant is Scott

At 12:01 pm today, Democracy Forward and CREW filed a lawsuit, seeking a halt to DOGE unless and until it comes into compliance with law regulating “federal advisory committees.” Here’s the complaint. Democracy Forward spearheads legal actions for a consortium of pro-democracy groups, several of whom are named

It is the night before the second inauguration of Donald Trump as the President of the United States. I thought I would be agitated, but I am not. I am resolved. I feel a steely calm. I expect the coming Trump regime to be very bad, and I expect it

Today, Judge Juan Merchan continued his valiant effort to properly conduct a state criminal trial and post-trial proceedings in the face of Donald Trump’s complete disregard for rule of law and a U.S. Supreme Court that has shown its inclination to wholly protect Trump from federal criminal prosecution.

As far as I know, the only institutional reaction from American law schools to federal results from the 2024 election has been to tell foreign law students to get to campus before Trump's inauguration, part of broader warnings from universities and colleges. I can find no record of

In January, 2020, the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was ratified, per the procedures specified in Article V of the U.S. Constitution. As with all U.S. law, the U.S. Constitution is the paramount authority on the law of amending the U.S. Constitution. So, when Virginia became the