Courageous Judges - Highlights for Sep 28 2025

Type

  Name

Detail Description

Address

Judge

Kathleen M. Williams

She ordered the closure of the "Alligator Alcatraz" immigration detention facility within 60 days and prohibited new detainees, citing environmental and legal harm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_M._Williams

United States Courthouse, 400 North Miami Avenue, Room 11-3, Miami, Florida 33128

Judge

Lauren J. King

On a claim that medical funding cuts would not cause harm: "Defendants' argument is disingenuous at best." After the Temporary Restraining Order (TRO), she held hearings and, when the TRO expired, issued a preliminary injunction continuing to block much of the executive order in the plaintiff states (Washington, Oregon, Minnesota, Colorado).

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/03/01/judge-blocks-trump-order-threatening-funding-offer-care-for-transgender-youth

United States Courthouse700 Stewart Street, Suite Seattle, WA 98101

Judge

Allison D. Burroughs

Trump administration illegally froze billions in Harvard funds, she found it "difficult to conclude anything other than that [the Trump administration] used antisemitism as a smokescreen

https://www.kanw.org/npr-news/2025-09-03/trump-administration-illegally-froze-billions-in-harvard-funds-judge-rules?

U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts

1 Courthouse Way, Suite 2300

Boston, MA 02210

Judge

William G. Young

July 2025 order in HHS-restructuring case: said she "will not treat unsigned shadow-docket orders as definitive indications" of the law. https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/judges-vexed-by-supreme-court-shadow-docket-rulings-trump-cases-2025-09-10

U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts (Boston), John Joseph Moakley U.S. Courthouse, 1 Courthouse Way, Suite 3210, Boston, MA 02210

Judge

Esther Salas

She has spoken publicly about the increasing threats and hostile rhetoric against judges, including the worrying trend of "weaponizing" her son's name—judges and their adult children have received pizzas with her son's name as sender in attempts to intimidate https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/lives-are-at-stake-judge-whose-son-was-murdered-urges-leaders-to-end-hostile-rhetoric

United States District Court for the District of New Jersey Martin Luther King Building & U.S. Courthouse 50 Walnut Street Newark, NJ 07102


 

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