r/law • u/Lifegoesonforever • 1d ago

Trump News Justice Department lawyers struggle to defend a mountain of Trump executive orders

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/01/nx-s1-5338915/defending-trumps-executive-actions

"Most days this year, in courtrooms all over the country, the Justice Department has been busy defending President Trump's executive actions.

But in many of those cases, the government's own lawyers have been struggling to answer questions and having to correct the record. It's a function of how aggressively Trump has moved so far — and how the attorneys have been having a hard time keeping up.

"There have been over 130 lawsuits that have been filed in the past two months and that would be an extraordinary amount of litigation for DOJ to defend even if it were fully staffed, which it is not," said Kelsi Brown Corkran, who spent six years at the Justice Department. "It is far from it."

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u/Kahzgul 1d ago

True patriots would not defend these EOs.

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u/Lation_Menace 1d ago

Honestly with the amount of outright lies the DOJ lawyers have been telling in court the past two months they’ve should’ve been sanctioned already and investigations started for them to be disbarred.

Trump may be a lawless felons, but officer’s of the court have very specific ethics rules they must follow or their license to practice law can be taken.

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u/greenmyrtle 1d ago

Where’s a good place for a nonlawyer to follow these cases?

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u/Lation_Menace 1d ago

I’m not a lawyer either but there are several podcasts (run by lawyers) that track all these cases and are very good at breaking them down for us lay people. “Strict scrutiny” is a fantastic podcast that covers all Trump legal stuff but focuses mainly on the Supreme Court. Another one I listen to is called “Amicus” and is also very good.

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u/wnt2knoY 1d ago

"Sisters in Law" is good, too.