JUDGES IN THE FEDERAL COURT that handles cases in the Bay Area find themselves presiding over a bevy of cases that stem from the executive orders that President Donald Trump began to drop on Jan. 20, his inauguration day.

It is a telling sign of the times that there are half a dozen “trackers” devoted to keeping tabs on litigation against the Trump administration. One of the trackers is maintained by the journal Just Security, based at the Reiss Center on Law and Security at New York University School of Law and is self-described as “an editorially independent, non-partisan, daily digital law and policy journal that elevates the discourse on national security, democracy and the rule of law, and rights.”

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Joe Dworetzky is a second career journalist. He practiced law in Philadelphia for more than 35 years, representing private and governmental clients in commercial litigation and insolvency proceedings. Joe served as City Solicitor for the City of Philadelphia under Mayor Ed Rendell and from 2009 to 2013 was one of five members of the Philadelphia School Reform Commission with responsibility for managing the city’s 250 public schools. He moved to San Francisco in 2011 and began writing fiction and pursuing a lifelong interest in editorial cartooning. Joe earned a Master’s in Journalism from Stanford University in 2020. He covers Legal Affairs and writes long form Investigative stories. His occasional cartooning can be seen in Bay Area Sketchbook. Joe encourages readers to email him story ideas and leads at joe.dworetzky@baycitynews.com.