May 5, 2025

Landmark action brought by community organizations and others across nation to block the administration's attempt to dismantle the agency without congressional authorization.

May 5, 2025

Over 150 bipartisan former judges sent a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi condemning the Trump administration’s attacks on the judiciary, including the arrest of Judge Hannah Dugan in her own courthouse. The arrest is part of a broader pattern of retaliation against judges who have ruled against the administration.

May 5, 2025

National security attorney Mark S. Zaid filed a lawsuit in D.C. federal court challenging the revocation of his security clearance by President Donald J. Trump. The suit seeks to have the action declared unconstitutional, his clearance reinstated, and the policy halted.

May 1, 2025

The posts and comments by FBI Director Kash Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi, made in the aftermath of the arrest of Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan, appear to violate DOJ policies that bar personnel from making public statements that are highly prejudicial or that could affect the outcome of a criminal proceeding.

April 28, 2025

This is the largest and most significant challenge to Trump’s authority to remake the government without Congressional approval.

April 24, 2025

A key part of an anti-voter executive order was successfully halted after the president attempted to act beyond his power and direct an independent agency to make drastic changes to our elections. A judge affirmed that it is not within the president’s authority to direct the Election Assistance Commission to implement burdensome and unnecessary documentation requirements for voter registration.

April 23, 2025

A new report released today by the State Democracy Defenders Fund illustrates how Donald Trump’s entanglements with the cryptocurrency industry could pose serious risks to democratic institutions and public trust. Trump’s Crypto Conflicts of Interest details how Trump and his allies are embracing crypto as both a fundraising tool and policy agenda.

April 22, 2025

After having lost on Election Day and in two recounts, candidate Judge Jefferson Griffin continues his effort to overturn the result of a free and fair election by seeking to throw out thousands of votes from a cherrypicked set of voters.

April 22, 2025

The decision enshrines that USAGM must fulfill its legally required functions and protects the editorial independence of Voice of America (VOA) journalists and other federal media professionals within the agency and newsrooms that receive grants from the agency.

April 19, 2025

This powerful bipartisan statement marks the largest bipartisan public repudiation of any executive action targeting individuals with retaliation in President Trump’s second term.

April 16, 2025

The amended complaint includes new allegations detailing Musk’s growing control over government operations in violation of the Appointments Clause of the U.S. Constitution — from unilaterally suspending federal contracts and employee salaries to issuing directives that impact agency-wide policy without legal authority.

April 8, 2025

Public service unions, small business, veterans and conservation organizations, and rule of law advocates vow to continue fight.

April 3, 2025

A lawsuit seeking to stop the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) from disclosing tens of millions of Americans’ private, sensitive information to Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) can continue, a federal judge ruled Thursday.

April 1, 2025

The brief argues that this unprecedented use of the Act represents a dangerous overreach of executive power, the potential for abuse of power, the erosion of civil liberties, and the undermining of constitutional principles.

March 31, 2025

Through this executive order, the president is attempting to act beyond his power and usurp the role of Congress and the states to set their own election laws.

March 28, 2025

The temporary restraining order against the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), its Acting Director Victor Morales, and Special Adviser Kari Lake temporarily halts the far-reaching layoffs of Voice of America’s civil servants.

March 25, 2025

Freedom of Information Act request to the Federal Aviation Administration calls for transparency surrounding contracts, communications, and potential conflicts of interest over the agency’s acquisition of SpaceX’s Starlink terminals.

March 22, 2025

The Alien Enemies Act, passed in 1798, was intended for use only during times of war, and Trump’s recent invocation of the Act is not only unwarranted but also violates constitutional principles that limit the scope of executive power. 

March 21, 2025

The U.S. Agency for Global Media violated the First Amendment, separation of powers, appointments clause, and several laws when it suspended nearly all operations, says a new complaint filed by unions and workers.

March 21, 2025

“Congress has not extended OPM the authority to willy-nilly fire federal employees across the government, and the president cannot change that simply by signing an executive order.”

March 18, 2025

The case was the first to argue that Musk’s actions were in violation of the United States Constitution’s Appointments Clause. This is the first court opinion to make that finding. The court also found that the conduct of Musk and DOGE violates constitutional Separation of Powers.

March 14, 2025

The new filing urges the federal judge to hold an evidentiary hearing and to address the threshold issue of whether the Government’s motion to dismiss the indictment is “tainted with impropriety.”

March 13, 2025

Filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington at Seattle, the lawsuit seeks to block this illegal action, which violates the constitutional rights of federal employees and undermines collective bargaining protections.

March 13, 2025

The judge ordered immediate reinstatement of terminated probationary employees of the Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, Interior, Energy, Defense, and Treasury departments, and these agencies must cease termination of probationary employees, effective immediately.

March 12, 2025

No president has ever removed a Member since the FLRA was created in 1978. Susan Tsui Grundmann’s case is one of several where the heads of independent agencies were removed by the President without cause.

March 12, 2025

The brief urges the court to issue a preliminary injunction reversing the White House’s decision to exclude the AP from the press pool and restrict its access to presidential events.

March 5, 2025

The motion filing to submit an amicus brief in Mayor Adams’ federal criminal case asks the federal judge in the case to consider Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove’s conduct under the Rules of Professional Conduct and the Principles of Federal Prosecution

March 5, 2025

The John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act was reintroduced today by Alabama Congresswoman Rep. Terri Sewell.

March 5, 2025

Mary Comans’ wrongful termination occurred after the so-called Department of Government Efficiency committee targeted Comans and other DHS career employees for providing life-saving housing services as part of the DHS Shelter and Services Program.

February 27, 2025

"The Office of Personnel Management does not have any authority whatsoever under any statute in the history of the universe to hire and fire employees at another agency,” Judge William H. Alsup stated.

February 26, 2025

This filing is the latest step in a lawsuit by 26 anonymous plaintiffs, which aims to stop Musk and DOGE from continuing their unconstitutional assault on federal programs, federal employees, and laws duly enacted by Congress.

February 24, 2025

The temporary restraining order would stop OPM from directing the unlawful firings, which the plaintiffs refer to in their complaint as “one of the most massive employment frauds in the history of this country.”

February 20, 2025

Some of the nation’s largest public service unions have filed a lawsuit seeking to block the unlawful mass terminations of probationary federal employees, which was directed by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and its Acting Director, Charles Ezell.

February 19, 2025

If granted, the preliminary injunction will block Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from violating privacy and security laws by demanding unauthorized access to sensitive data and using their powers to target, threaten, and remove federal employees.

February 18, 2025

A group of Republican former officials and legal experts filed an amicus brief with the United States Supreme Court in support of protecting Hampton Dellinger from dismissal as Special Counsel of the watchdog Office of Special Counsel.

February 13, 2025

Government employees suit cites glaring appointments clause problem.

February 11, 2025

The complaint alleges both Musk and DOGE accessed the highly sensitive personal information of current and former government employees, government contractors, applicants for federal employment, and many others.

February 10, 2025

A federal court in New Hampshire today blocked President Trump’s executive order that seeks to strip certain babies born in the United States of their U.S. citizenship.

February 10, 2025

Approximately two million federal employees were offered the chance to resign by last Thursday. The brief supports the plaintiffs’ request for a temporary restraining order.

February 8, 2025

Martin has sought dismissal in at least one case in which his own private sector client had already been convicted of serious felonies committed during the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

February 7, 2025

Consent order blocks the Department of Justice from making public the names of FBI personnel involved in the lawful investigation and subsequent prosecution of January 6th rioters.

February 6, 2025

Interim court order restricts Treasury data access to select government employees.

February 4, 2025

Today, SDDF and a group of legal advocates dedicated to maintaining the rule of law filed for an emergency order to block the public release of the names of any FBI employees who are poised to be fired.

February 3, 2025

“The scale of the intrusion into individuals’ privacy is massive and unprecedented,” the complaint states.

January 20, 2025

New order puts newborns in harm’s way, is unconstitutional, and flouts fundamental American values.

January 20, 2025

Nonprofit Groups file a lawsuit to ensure that the “Department of Government Efficiency” complies with the requirements of the Federal Advisory Committee Act.

January 17, 2025

Former republican and democratic members of congress urge Fourth Circuit court of appeals to keep state Supreme Court election case in federal court.

December 18, 2024

In new FOIAs, democracy watchdog group requests government records across federal agencies.

July 3, 2024

Norm Eisen explains why the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity ruling has no bearing on Trump’s 34 felony convictions in Manhattan.