The American Bar Association has adopted Resolution 509, to oppose federal government actions intended to intimidate law firms that represent clients disfavored by the current administration:

RESOLVED, That the American Bar Association opposes any efforts by any government
actor to punish or threaten to punish lawyers, law firms, or other organizations for
representing or having represented any particular client or cause disfavored by the
government;
FURTHER RESOLVED, That the legal profession, lawyers, and law firms should ensure
that counsel is available to those who need it, and especially to clients who cannot afford
to pay for counsel;
FURTHER RESOLVED, That the American Bar Association supports the rights of
lawyers and their clients to freedom of speech, to access to the courts, and to petition the
government for redress under the Constitution;
FURTHER RESOLVED, That the American Bar Association opposes government actions
adversely targeting individual lawyers and law firms, or the legal profession in general,
based upon lawyers’, and law firms’ engagement in constitutionally protected advocacy
on behalf of clients; and
FURTHER RESOLVED, That the American Bar Association opposes public officials’
threats or efforts to impeach judges based solely on disagreement with the merits of the
rulings made by those judges.

Adopted by the House of Delegates of the American Bar Association August 11-12, 2024

Source, with report explaining why the resolution was needed @ https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/directories/policy/annual-2025/509-annual-2025.pdf

Judge William Young wrote a book-length order attacking “the problem this President has with the First Amendment.” Matthew Petti @ Reason.com reports

President Donald Trump often channels former President Ronald Reagan, down to his signature slogan, “make America great again.” But Judge William Young, who was appointed by Reagan himself, cited Reagan’s legacy as a total rebuke to Trump’s ruling philosophy. “Freedom is a fragile thing and it’s never more than one generation away from extinction,” Young wrote in a ruling filed on Tuesday, quoting a speech by Reagan.

“I’ve come to believe that President Trump truly understands and appreciates the full import of President Reagan’s inspiring message—yet I fear he has drawn from it a darker, more cynical message,” Young warned. “I fear President Trump believes the American people are so divided that today they will not stand up, fight for, and defend our most precious constitutional values so long as they are lulled into thinking their own personal interests are not affected.”

Young’s ruling came in response to one of the Trump administration’s signature policies, its attempts to shut down Palestinian solidarity protests by deporting Palestinian students and their supporters. The American Association of University Professors and the Middle East Studies Association sued a few days after the arrest of Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil, arguing that the policy violates freedom of speech, both by intimidating foreign academics in America and preventing American academics “from hearing from, and associating with, their noncitizen students and colleagues.”

Ruling that administration officials indeed “acted in concert to misuse the sweeping powers of their respective offices to target non-citizen pro-Palestinians for deportation primarily on account of their First Amendment protected political speech,” Young promised to hold a hearing on the specific measures he will order. He wrote that “it will not do simply to order the Public Officials to cease and desist in the future,” given the current political environment.

What seems to have set off Young was a postcard from a hater: “Trump has pardons and tanks…What do you have?” Young attached a photocopy of the postcard to the top of his ruling, and dedicated the ruling to disproving the writer. “Alone, I have nothing but my sense of duty. Together, We the People of the United States—you and me—have our magnificent Constitution. Here’s how that works out in a specific case,” he wrote, inviting the letter writer to visit his courthouse at the end of the ruling.

Complete Post by Matthew Petti @ Reason.com https://reason.com/2025/10/01/reagan-appointed-judge-slams-trumps-crackdown-on-pro-palestinian-students/