Tag: trump

March 14, 2019

US President Donald Trump signed the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act on Tuesday. The bill, which passed by the House and Senate with strong bipartisan support, works to expand national parks and creates new national monuments. […]

February 21, 2019

When a client comes to you seeking justice, often, you’ll need to explain that the legal actions you can take in the real world don’t work like they do on TV. Unless it’s a pressing criminal matter, or there’s a […]

February 20, 2019

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging US President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency in efforts to fund the construction of a border wall between the US and Mexico. The organization, alongside the Sierra […]

February 19, 2019

Donald Trump campaigned on border security. One of his first executive orders as president directed “the immediate construction of a physical wall on the southern border.” And he allowed the federal government to shut down for three weeks to secure […]

February 19, 2019

A 16-state coalition filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s administration on Monday, requesting the court to issue a judicial determination that Trump’s national emergency declaration over the southern border wall is unconstitutional. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced the […]

February 18, 2019

Legal advocacy group Public Citizen filed the first legal challenge to US President Donald Trump’s emergency declaration seeking declaratory and injunctive relief on behalf of three Texas landowners and a non-profit environmental group. The complaint alleges that the necessary seizures […]

February 15, 2019

A group of human rights organizations filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s administration on Thursday challenging its policy requiring Central American migrants to return to Mexico to wait for their asylum requests to be processed. The Migrant Protection Protocols […]

February 12, 2019

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Friday refused to dismiss a suit brought by three public interest groups challenging President Donald Trump’s Executive Order and related guidance, that directed, for every new regulation, […]

January 22, 2019

The US Supreme Courtissued an order on Tuesday to reverse a lower court’s injunction preventing the Trump administration from implementing its ban on transgender individuals from serving in the military. The Trump administration petitioned the Supreme Court to overturn the […]

January 16, 2019

US President Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general, William Barr, on Tuesday appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee for his confirmation hearing. Much of the questioning concerned the Robert Mueller investigation and Barr’s ability and willingness to faithfully execute his […]

November 27, 2018

Several major law firms are aiding or bringing court cases that challenge Trump administration immigration policies. Among the firms contributing pro bono hours is Paul Weiss, which helped find the parents of immigrant children who were separated from their families, […]

October 26, 2018

The travel ban aside, none of President Trump’s executive orders have garnered as much legal attention as his proposal to withhold federal funding from sanctuary cities and states. A federal judge blocked the order in April 2017. California (along with […]

October 24, 2018

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed into law America’s Water Infrastructure Act, which seeks to “provide for the conservation and development of water and related resources and authorize the Secretary of the Army to construct various projects for improvements […]

October 22, 2018

In December 2017, President Donald Trump signed a new tax bill into law. Known previously as the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act,” the reform will begin to have far-reaching impacts on many areas of tax and financial planning. One significant […]

October 3, 2018

The New York State Department of Taxation and Finance is reviewing allegations in a New York Times investigative article that concludes President Donald Trump participated in “dubious tax schemes” including “instances of outright fraud” during the 1990s. James Gazzale, a […]

August 8, 2018

The investigation of Michael Cohen, a former lawyer for President Donald Trump, reportedly includes a probe of possible tax fraud. According to the Wall Street Journal, federal authorities are examining whether Cohen underreported income from taxi medallions, which permit drivers […]

July 18, 2018

The attorneys general for New York, Connecticut, Maryland and New Jersey filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the Trump administration’s $10,000 limit on the federal deduction for state and local taxes (SALT), alleging that it harms taxpayers and undermines state […]

June 14, 2018

The New York attorney general’s office announced Thursday that it is alleging illegal conduct by the Donald J. Trump Foundation in a lawsuit that also names as defendants the president and his three adult children. The suit alleges Trump used […]

April 25, 2018

The US District Court for the District of Columbia on Tuesday vacated the Trump administration’s efforts to terminate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which protects undocumented immigrants who were brought to the US as children from deportation […]

May 8, 2017

The legislation — dubbed the Tax Returns Uniformly Made Public Act (or TRUMP Act) — would require the state to post online the state tax returns of anyone elected to federal or state office in a statewide election, including the […]