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If courts accept the administration’s new interpretation of preexisting case law, which attempts to graft onto grant recipients the existing limitations on government contractors' free speech, a more deferential standard may soon apply in determining whether an agency’s refusal or termination of a grant was in violation of the First Amendment, say attorneys at Venable.

An Illinois federal judge has ordered a top Border Patrol official overseeing the Trump administration's immigration enforcement surge in Chicago to appear before her every weekday ahead of a Nov. 5 preliminary injunction hearing and to wear a body camera, after she questioned him on the stand Tuesday about his agency's recent uses of force.

Democratic senators called for the Congressional Budget Office to investigate the cost of President Donald Trump's deployment of National Guard troops in five U.S. cities, saying the mobilization of military forces raises serious fiscal, legal and constitutional concerns.

A Tennessee federal judge is requiring Trump administration officials to adhere to a local criminal rule barring extrajudicial statements in its criminal case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia over human smuggling charges, citing the Salvadoran's right to a fair trial.

As attorneys increasingly face unprecedented and pervasive situations — from prosecutions of law enforcement officials to executive orders targeting law firms — they must develop several essential competencies of effective crisis lawyering, says Ray Brescia at Albany Law School.