Register now! On Thursday, April 30th at 1 p.m. ET ICAP's Kelsi Corkran will be featured as a panelist at @myconstitution.bsky.social's Home Stretch at the Supreme Court event in a discussion about the most significant cases of the SCOTUS term. RSVP: tinyurl.com/scvfmmut
Signatories on this letter include former Acting Attorneys General, Former Inspector General, Senior Ethics Officials, and more. See our press release for more details:
Yesterday, more than 350 former USDOJ filed a letter explaining that a proposed rule that would allow the AG to indefinitely delay state bar investigations into allegations of professional misconduct against USDOJ attorneys is legally wrong & factually unsupported. Read the full letter:
"...the First Amendment protects the right to watch law enforcement do their jobs in public, to record their activities, and to publicly criticize what law enforcement is doing,” said ICAP's Seth Wayne. “Those same principles apply to federal law enforcement.”
The DOJ, through investigations by the civil servants we’re representing, has routinely held local police accountable for violating protestors’ constitutional rights. Federal agents must be held to the same standard. 3/3
Campaign Legal Center and @icapgeorgetown.bsky.social are representing former career civil servants from DOJ's Civil Rights Division who worked to eliminate patterns of illegal conduct by law enforcement under Democratic and Republicans administrations alike. 2/
NEW: 39 former DOJ civil servants filed an amicus brief calling on the court to hold ICE and other federal agents accountable for violations of protestors’ First Amendment rights in Minnesota. DOJ has held local police to this standard—the same must apply here. 1/
Pam Bondi did a disservice to the Department of Justice, crime victims, and the public. ICAP’s Mary McCord reflects on it here: www.ms.now/opinion/pam-...
ICAP is proud to represent legal ethics scholars warning of the ethical dilemma posed for lawyers at firms blacklisted by Trump's illegal executive orders and for lawyers at firms that cut a deal. Read our brief here: www.law.georgetown.edu/icap/wp-cont...
ICAP is honored to work with the MN AG and Hennepin County Attorney to seek justice for those harmed by the ICE surge in Minneapolis. Read the full complaint: www.law.georgetown.edu/icap/wp-cont...
ICAP's Mary McCord writes that DOJ both embarrassed and exposed itself as a purely political actor in reversing its decision to dismiss the appeals of four court orders striking down POTUS's blacklisting of law firms. Read it here.
Motion: www.law.georgetown.edu/icap/wp-cont...
CBP agents are threatening and coercing unaccompanied immigrant children to "voluntarily" return to their home countries, potentially facilitating a return to the danger and violence they initially sought refuge from. ICAP has filed a motion seeking to halt this unlawful practice. More here:
"...the American people are on the hook for these claims if liability is assessed against the government." –– ICAP's Rupa Bhattacharyya on the president's request for the federal government to pay him billions of dollars. Read the full article at the link below!
The argument will begin shortly: www.youtube.com/live/gU6Nxcx...
More on the case here! www.law.georgetown.edu/icap/our-wor...
Last year we challenged DHS's rescission of the policy that restricts immigration enforcement in sensitive locations, including places of worship. Today ICAP's Kelsi Corkran will argue in the DC Circuit in our continued defense of the religious rights and freedoms of millions of Americans.
In a recent episode of the podcast @shortcircuitij.bsky.social, ICAP's Elizabeth Cruikshank shares insights from her years of work litigating on behalf of people behind bars. Listen now!
On Monday, a federal judge heard arguments on whether to expel ICE agents from Minnesota in an attempt to end the Trump administration's sweeping immigration enforcement. ICAP's Mary McCord joined @pbsnews.org to discuss the implications of this case and more. Listen now.
Professor Mary McCord of @icapgeorgetown.bsky.social joined Geoff Bennett on @pbsnews.org to discuss Minnesota's legal challenge to ICE enforcement actions and Tenth Amendment questions around federal-state authority: https://to.pbs.org/4qMLXy6
Yesterday U.S. Border Patrol shot and killed Alex Pretti in the streets of Minneapolis. ICAP’s Julia Gegenheimer pulls from years of experience prosecuting law enforcement misconduct to detail what a proper investigation should look like. Read now:
DOJ has more than enough evidence to investigate the ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good. ICAP's Julia Gegenheimer breaks down what it would take to build that criminal case.
Read the full article here:
ICAP's Julia Gegenheimer recently joined Amicus host, @mjsdc.bsky.social, to discuss the remaining paths to justice after the killing of Renee Good and provide expert legal analysis on what happens when the DOJ abandons its duty.
Listen to the full episode here:
ICYMI! ICAP's Mary McCord spoke with @npr.org 1A's Jenn White about what's happening in the Department of Justice. Listen now: the1a.org/segments/dot...
We’re breaking down the latest on Trump’s brazen Venezuela takeover—and what it means for the world—with Former Acting Assistant Attorney General Mary McCord.
Coffee with the Contrarians returns at 9:15am ET on Substack. Watch LIVE by subscribing for free: https://contrarian.substack.com/subscribe
Listen to ICAP's Mary McCord join Jenn White on @npr.org’s 1A today to talk about the year of litigation against the Trump Administration: the1a.org/segments/the...
In case you missed Mary McCord's testimony at today's House Democrats' hearing, she summarized it in this op-ed:
Political violence didn't stop with Jan. 6
www.ms.now/opinion/jan-...
Today at 10 am ET! ICAP's Mary McCord will testify about political violence on the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection before Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Congressmember Bennie Thompson, and the House Democrats. The hearing will be live streamed here:
Listen now!
ICYMI: ICAP’s Mary McCord joined @democracydocket.com's @marcelias.bsky.social to talk about what’s happened to the DOJ she served in for more than 20 years:
