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ICE Tries To Raid Legal Offices, Demanding Files On Migrant Children

June 15, 2026 Katya Schwenk, The Lever. , , ,
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents attempted to raid the offices of attorneys for unaccompanied migrant children this week, lawyers tell The Lever, the latest escalation in the Trump administration’s attempt to collect sensitive data on children in the U.S. immigration system. As The Lever first reported last week, the legal services providers for unaccompanied migrant children — who represent the youth in deportation proceedings — have been locked in a standoff with the Trump administration over requests for sensitive case data on their clients. Now, ICE agents are arriving at their doors.

Lawyers Build New Infrastructure To Fight Deportation Machine

June 14, 2026 Marianne Dhenin, Truthout. , , , ,
Coalitions of attorneys, rights groups, and other organizations are developing a powerful new infrastructure to challenge the Trump administration’s mass deportation machine. Several so-called habeas projects have been created in states or regions across the country in recent months to connect noncitizens facing unlawful detention with pro bono attorneys who can file habeas corpus petitions on their behalf in federal court. “When it became clear that the administration had made it its priority to prevent people from accessing bond and immigration courts and, really the mission of the administration seems to be to keep people in detention for as long as possible, we saw a need to help facilitate access to the federal courts,” Christy Rodriguez.

The Chilling UK Case Against Palestine Action Lawyer

May 9, 2026 Dania Akkad, Consortium News. , , ,
Contempt of court proceedings against a top human rights barrister are having a “chilling effect” across the British bar, leading lawyers tell Declassified.  Rajiv Menon KC is accused of violating the judge’s orders in the trial of six Palestine Action activists who broke into an Israeli-owned arms factory near Bristol in 2024 at the height of the Gaza genocide. Menon is alleged, in part, to have breached the judge’s direction that lawyers were not permitted in their closing speeches to invite the jury to acquit on the basis of conscience.  The barrister reportedly told the jury about the Bushell case, a landmark ruling from 1670 which established the independence of juries. 

Lawyers Fight Back

June 20, 2025 Michael Steven Smith, Alte. , , ,
Trump and the MAGA movement behind him have taken huge steps to upend and overturn the kind of democracy, however limited by race and class, that we have lived with since our independence from England some 250 years ago. In order to secure their rule, these fascists, like those in the Hitler movement 90 years ago, attempted to get control of the various apparatuses of our society. They aimed at the major media, the universities, the states like California, the scientific establishment, the medical profession, the cultural apparatus, the top brass in the military, and the big law firms.

IADL Statement: Support The Palestinian People

October 15, 2023 International Association of Democratic Lawyers. , , , , , , ,
The International Association of Democratic Lawyers, (IADL) a worldwide NGO of progressive law professionals with consultative status at ECOSOC in the UN, reaffirms its support to the Palestinian people and their legitimate struggle against occupation, aggression, apartheid policies and continuous violations of the rights of the Palestinian people.

Legal Care For All

September 17, 2020 By Kieran Szuchewycz and Katharina Maier, Canadian Dimension. , , ,
We understand that needing doctors and medical care is just a part of life. We are happy to distinguish ourselves from our southern neighbours on the grounds that we are a society that ensures a health crisis does not result in financial ruin. In the course of our lifetime, most of us will also find ourselves in a situation where we need a lawyer. Whether it’s a divorce, a car accident, a business dispute, an eviction, or a criminal matter, one time or another, we will require a lawyer to advocate and advise us as we navigate the complex judicial system.

Historic Battle Brewing In NYC Over Lawyers’ Committee Grand Jury Petition

March 25, 2020 Staff, Lawyerscommitteefor9-11inquiry.org , ,
TODAY in New York City a legal battle for the integrity of the Grand Jury process and the First Amendment Right to Petition for Redress is being waged. On Friday night March 20, 2020 Lawyers’ Committee Litigation Director, Mick Harrison, and his co-counsel, Lawyers’ Committee Board Director John O’Kelly...
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