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A free speech organization filed a lawsuit Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California arguing that a deportation provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) invoked by the Trump administration to deport noncitizens for speech it deems harmful to U.S. foreign policy interests is unconstitutional. Lawyers for the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) brought the lawsuit on behalf of Stanford University’s independent student-run newspaper. (Complaint). (NYT).
The Department of Justice on Friday asked a federal judge to impose substantial monetary sanctions against a California lawyer who represented a Laos man in deportation proceedings against the government. The motion for sanctions comes after Trump signed a presidential memorandum in March instructing the Justice Department “to seek sanctions against attorneys and law firms who engage in frivolous, unreasonable, and vexatious litigation against the United States.” (Motion). (Politico).
The University of California has agreed to negotiate with the White House to resolve allegations that the school subjected Jewish students to harassment amid campus protests in the spring of 2024. Trump officials have frozen more than $500 million in UCLA’s federal research funds. (WSJ).
The Department of Veterans Affairs said Wednesday it had moved to strip labor protections for more than 400,000 of its employees. The move comes days after a panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals stayed a district court’s preliminary injunction of President Trump’s executive order directing a swath of federal agencies to terminate collective bargaining agreements. (NYT).
Pending Interim Order Applications Involving the U.S. Government in the Supreme Court
National Institutes of Health, et al. v. American Public Health Association, et al.: Government filed application on July 24 to stay district court order that prevented the National Institutes of Health from canceling grants that, according to the administration, are related to DEI and “gender ideology.” APHA respondents filed response in opposition to government’s application for a stay. Government filed reply in support of application for a stay.