Legal Advocacy Organization
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Counsel for a coalition of nonprofits and local governments challenging HUD changes
HUD tried to rewrite the rules of America's biggest homelessness grant program in the middle of the funding cycle. On December 19, after states and cities sued, Judge Mary McElroy told HUD: stop—effective immediately.
Updated Yesterday
Counsel for a broad coalition challenging the fee in a separate case
The Trump administration imposed a $100,000 fee on new H‑1B visa petitions. Now twenty states are suing to overturn that fee in federal court, calling it an illegal end-run around Congress.
Representing plaintiffs in Widakuswara v. Lake
Voice of America broadcast continuously for more than 80 years — through the Cold War, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and two Iraq wars. In March 2025, the Trump administration placed virtually its entire workforce on leave, froze its website, and pulled funding from every U.S.-backed international broadcaster. For the first time in VOA's history, the network went dark. One year later, U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth — a Ronald Reagan appointee — ordered 1,042 employees reinstated and broadcasting restored by March 23, ruling that the administration "provided nothing approaching a principled basis" for the shutdown and that the official who carried it out, Kari Lake, was never lawfully appointed.
Updated Mar 18
Co-counsel in J.G.G. v. Trump
The Alien Enemies Act has been invoked only four times in American history—during the War of 1812, World War I, World War II, and now. In March 2025, President Trump became the first president to use the 1798 wartime statute outside of a declared war, targeting alleged members of Venezuela's Tren de Aragua gang and sending 137 men to El Salvador's maximum-security CECOT prison within 24 hours. On February 12, 2026, a federal judge ordered the government to facilitate their return to the United States, ruling they were denied the right to challenge their removal.
Updated Feb 12
Lead counsel for plaintiffs in SSA v. AFSCME
The Privacy Act of 1974 was written to prevent exactly this: government employees using federal databases containing Social Security numbers, health records, and bank account information for unauthorized purposes. For nearly a year, Department of Government Efficiency staffers did it anyway—copying the records of 300 million Americans to unsecured servers, sharing files with outside political groups, and coordinating with election-denial activists to match voter rolls against Social Security data.
Updated Jan 26
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