In a move that follows through on a memorandum from President Donald Trump for U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to punish lawyers or law firms who engage in "misconduct," the Trump administration is asking for "substantial monetary sanctions" against a California immigration attorney who tried and failed in multiple courts to stop a client with a decades-old attempted murder rap from being deported.

The sanctions motion was brought against Joshua Schroeder in Vang Lor's case, filed in the District Court of Guam, a U.S. territory. First reported by Politico , the motion at the outset claims that Schroeder acted "in bad faith, unreasonably and vexatiously multiplied proceedings by maintaining positions without bases in fact and law" and submitted "patently meritless filings in three separate

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