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 |