Judge #BerylHowell struck down in its entirety #Trump's punitive #ExecutiveOrder targeting #LawFirm #PerkinsCoie as a violation of the US #Constitution's protections for #FreeSpeech & #DueProcess.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278290/gov.uscourts.dcd.278290.184.0.pdf
>>The right to a criminal defense lawyer is so ingrained in the American idea of justice that fans of TV police dramas can recite these two lines from the Miranda rights by memory: You have the right to an attorney. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be provided for you.
But in much of Texas, that right is routinely denied. Every year, more than half of rural Texans accused of misdemeanors are left to represent themselves ... <<
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/us/texas-criminal-defense-attorney.html
#Gorsuch writes a meandering concurrence in #Rahimi, taking the opportunity to bolster his view of the #SixthAmendment right to confront one's accusers and, more generally, his insistence that any balances between rights and regulations are "set in amber" by the Constitution itself. He concludes by countermanding any invitation for reconsideration of #Bruen. /16
