President Donald Trump’s March 15 deportation of hundreds of alleged Venezuelan gang members, in possible defiance of a federal judge’s order, deepened a battle over the limits of presidential authority and the courts’ ability to check the chief executive’s power.

Trump administration officials are laughing in a federal judge's face — and they're betting the judicial branch doesn't have much in its arsenal to make them obey.

When Trump first took office in 2017, attorneys at Big Law firms lent thousands of pro-bono hours to legal efforts to stymie the administration’s most controversial policies, including the travel ban that restricted entry to the U.S. from certain Muslim-majority countries.

Instead, the public reaction from large corporate firms has come mainly from a few of their lawyers, via LinkedIn posts and an online effort involving junior lawyers at Skadden and other firms to encourage a larger institutional response.

To date, 127 legal cases have been filed against the Trump administration's actions since President Trump took office. The cases challenge an enormous range of subjects.