Brian E. Frosh is an American lawyer and politician who served as the Attorney General of Maryland from 2015 to 2023. He also served five terms in the Maryland State Senate,representing Maryland's District 16 in Montgomery County. Prior to serving in the Senate,Frosh represented District 16 in the Maryland House of Delegates,serving two four-year terms.
Paul L. Friedman is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. He serves as secretary of the American Law Institute.
Emmet Gael Sullivan is an American attorney and jurist serving as a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
Karen LeCraft Henderson is an American lawyer and jurist serving since 1990 as a U.S. circuit judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. She previously was a U.S. district judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina from 1986 to 1990.
James Louis Robart is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington.
Josephine Laura Staton is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California.
Tanya Sue Chutkan is an American lawyer and jurist serving as a U.S. district judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
Rossie David Alston Jr. is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. He was appointed by President Donald Trump in 2019.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington v. Trump was a case brought before the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs,watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW),hotel and restaurant owner Eric Goode,an association of restaurants known as ROC United,and an Embassy Row hotel event booker named Jill Phaneuf alleged that the defendant,President Donald Trump,was in violation of the Foreign Emoluments Clause,a constitutional provision that bars the president or any other federal official from taking gifts or payments from foreign governments. CREW filed its complaint on January 23,2017,shortly after Trump was inaugurated as president. An amended complaint,adding the hotel and restaurant industry plaintiffs,was filed on April 18,2017. A second amended complaint was filed on May 10,2017. CREW was represented by several prominent lawyers and legal scholars in the case.
Executive Order 13780,titled Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States,was an executive order signed by United States President Donald Trump on March 6,2017. It placed a 90-day restriction on entry to the U.S. by nationals of Iran,Libya,Somalia,Sudan,Syria and Yemen,and barred entry for all refugees who did not possess either a visa or valid travel documents for 120 days. This executive order—sometimes called "Travel Ban 2.0"—revoked and replaced Executive Order 13769 issued on January 27,2017.
Neomi Jehangir Rao is an American jurist who serves as a federal appellate judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. She was appointed by President Donald Trump in 2019,having served in the Trump Administration from 2017 to 2019 as Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.
John Kenneth Bush is an American attorney and United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Bush graduated from Harvard Law School and practiced in Washington,D.C.,and Louisville,Kentucky,where he served as president of the local branch of the Federalist Society. In 2017,he was nominated to a seat on the Sixth Circuit by President Donald Trump.
International Refugee Assistance Project v. Trump,883 F. 3d 233,was a decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit,sitting en banc,upholding an injunction against enforcement of Proclamation No. 9645,titled "Enhancing Vetting Capabilities and Processes for Detecting Attempted Entry Into the United States by Terrorists or Other Public-Safety Threats",a presidential proclamation signed by President Donald Trump on September 24,2017. The proclamation indefinitely suspends the entry into the U.S. of some or all immigrant and non-immigrant travelers from eight countries. It is a successor to Executive Order 13769,entitled "Protection of the Nation from Terrorist Entry into the United States," which were also enjoined by the District Court of Maryland and the Fourth Circuit in a case decided in 2017 by the same name of International Refugee Assistance Project v. Trump,857 F.3d 554.
D.C. and Maryland v. Trump was a lawsuit filed on June 12,2017,in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. The plaintiffs,the U.S. state of Maryland and the District of Columbia,alleged that the defendant,President Donald Trump,had violated the Foreign Emoluments Clause of the United States Constitution by accepting gifts from foreign governments. The lawsuit was filed by D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine and Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh.
Blumenthal v. Trump,949 F.3d 14,was a U.S. constitutional law and federal civil procedure lawsuit heard by Circuit Judges Henderson,Tatel,and Griffith,of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The case was on appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Columbia,where District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan granted in part and denied in part the President's motion to dismiss for lack of standing,denied the President's motion to dismiss for failure to state claim,and certified interlocutory appeal.
Trump v. Hawaii,No. 17-965,585 U.S. ___ (2018),was a landmark United States Supreme Court case involving Presidential Proclamation 9645 signed by President Donald Trump,which restricted travel into the United States by people from several nations,or by refugees without valid travel documents. Hawaii and several other states and groups challenged the Proclamation and two predecessor executive orders also issued by Trump on statutory and constitutional grounds. Citing a variety of statements by Trump and administration officials,they argued that the proclamation and its predecessor orders were motivated by anti-Muslim animus.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington and National Security Archive v. Trump and EOP,No. 1:17-cv-01228,is a case pending before the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. The plaintiffs,the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) and the archivist National Security Archive,allege that the defendants,President Donald Trump and elements of the Executive Office of the President,are in violation of the Presidential Records Act by deleting electronic messages on Twitter and using other electronic messaging applications without required archival records.
Julius Ness "Jay" Richardson is an American judge and lawyer who serves as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He was formerly an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of South Carolina.
Aileen Mercedes Cannon is a Colombian-born American lawyer who has served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida since 2020. Previously,Cannon worked for the corporate law firm Gibson Dunn from 2009 to 2012,and then as a federal prosecutor in the Southern District of Florida from 2013 to 2020. She was nominated by then President Donald Trump to become a district judge and was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in November 2020.
Krishanti O'Mara Vignarajah is a Marshall Scholar and an immigration advocate serving as President and CEO of Global Refuge. Previously,Vignarajah served as Policy Director to former First Lady Michelle Obama.
