Trump’s Pick to Head Department of Justice Civil Division Should Focus on Travel Ban Litigation

As we suggested in yesterday's legal analysis, the United States Department of Justice will have to tactically litigate any challenges to President Donald Trump's Executive Orders concerning illegal immigration. A team of attorneys with extensive ligation experience in the federal courts will have to be hired to replace the bureaucratic lawyers currently at the Justice …

Legal Analysis: Trump’s 4th Circuit Appeal Should Have Been Plan A

The Trump Administration’s decision Friday to appeal a Maryland federal judge’s ruling, which effectively blocked President Donald J. Trump’s second Executive Order regarding immigration from six majority Muslim countries, to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit should have been part of the Administration’s initial game plan. Allowing immigration groups along with …