"While trying to ensure due process for a client of his before the latter was deported to Laos in late May, he filed one habeas corpus petition after another in courts across the country, even in Guam following the silent maze laid out by prosecutors in Donald Trump's government to sabotage the legal defense of migrants in active removal proceedings."
"As far as anyone knows, Schroeder is the first attorney to face such an accusation, stemming from a presidential memorandum signed in March directing officials to seek sanctions against attorneys and law firms who engage in frivolous, unreasonable, and vexatious litigation against the United States. There is no precedent for this, but Schroeder who is also a legal scholar and author of treatises on the United States' founding laws places his case within a broader attack on the republic's values that the current Trump administration, through its Department of Justice, is carrying out."
"I'm just one attorney, and no attorney can withstand the government if they really wanted to do something to you. It's really rare for the government to make this choice because it's so consequential. But at the same time, there are a lot of odd things about this sanctions motion. For one thing, it cites a memo of the president, which seems to indicate that it's not an independent choice of a lawyer to make the sanctions motion. Usually it would be. The idea that they're following a direct message from the president, a political person, is extremely dangero"
Joshua Schroeder exhausted habeas corpus petitions in courts nationwide, including Guam, to secure due process for a client facing deportation to Laos in late May. Prosecutors filed a sanctions motion accusing him of deliberately wasting courts' time and money. The sanctions motion cites a March presidential memorandum directing officials to seek penalties against attorneys and law firms alleged to engage in frivolous, unreasonable, or vexatious litigation against the United States. Schroeder appears to be the first attorney targeted under that directive and frames the effort as part of a broader attack on republican values by the administration and Department of Justice.
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