“The US authority would say: It doesn’t matter how we get him. Once we get him, we can try him,” Cambridge professor Marc Weller tells @suzannemonyak.bsky.social and @justinfwise.bsky.social
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Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team.
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Federal agencies' independent litigation powers may be next in President Trump's sights if SCOTUS agrees he has the right to fire executive branch employees at will, DOJ's Civil Division head said today. news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and...
Article about the origins of our case against Trump's tariffs, which is currently before the Supreme Court: news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
The toymaker taking on Trump’s tariffs (gift link)
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Prominent Supreme Court litigator Neal Katyal is set to argue for businesses challenging Trump's tariffs... after winning a coin toss. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
All these people avoiding m-dashes because “AI uses them” simply means that there’s more for me!
NEW: There's a shorthand to describe US citizens getting swept up in immigration raids: "Kavanaugh Stops."
We dive into the label that's taken off on the left since Kavanaugh said immigration stops for legal residents are “typically brief." news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
President Donald Trump asked the US Supreme Court to let him immediately deploy National Guard troops in Chicago. From @gregstohr.bsky.social. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Justice Brett Kavanaugh this week raised the prospect of extending the Supreme Court’s logic that affirmative action in college admissions needed an “end point” to race-based redistricting. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
In 1965, the Dodgers had a big lead in the National League. It was announced that Oct. 6 would be game 1 of the World Series. Oct. 6 was Yom Kippur. They asked Koufax what he would do. He said, “I’m praying for rain.” He also said he would consult a Rabbi. He never did. Koufax told a Rabbi: ‘I’m Jewish. I’m a role model. I want them to understand they have to have pride.” Thousands of Jews said they saw Koufax at various synagogues in Minneapolis. In fact, he never left his hotel room. Don Drysdale, a Hall of Famer, pitched Game 1. He got bombed, giving up 7 runs. When the manager went out to pull him, he said, “Don’t you wish I was Jewish too?”
Always loved the Drysdale quip after Sandy Koufax sat out Game 1 of the 1965 World Series for Yom Kippur: jewishbaseballmuseum.com/spotlight-st...
At least a third of senior career leaders have left the Justice Department since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term, taking with them centuries of combined expertise, according to a Bloomberg Law analysis by @suzannemonyak.bsky.social
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EXCLUSIVE: The Justice Department is consolidating civil rights attorney hiring authority with a handful of supervisors, departing from practices that were designed to avoid politicization, @benjaminpenn.bsky.social and @suzannemonyak.bsky.social report
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ICYMI: The US judge who blocked the ouster of Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook joined the growing chorus of her lower court colleagues to reject the idea that the Supreme Court’s recent emergency docket orders bind her to side with the Trump administration
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The Supreme Court’s repeated grants of emergency relief to the Trump administration is creating fissures in the judiciary, while empowering the president to fight any lower court judge’s intervention, @jacqthomsen.bsky.social and @justinfwise.bsky.social report
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New: US prosecutors in DC have charged at least 20 people with assaulting or resisting federal officers in recent weeks, in cases leveling allegations mirroring those brought against Jan. 6 defendants that President Donald Trump essentially wiped out. news.bloomberglaw.com/white-collar...
Google antitrust ruling is good for Google and Apple; not so great for everyone else www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
The perpetrators may be interested in any sealed information that helps outline the “road map” of an investigation, such as through wiretap and search warrant requests, Adam Hickey, a former Justice Department computer crime investigator tells @justinfwise.bsky.social
The former deputy for New Jersey’s US attorney claims she was fired in “direct retaliation” for judges appointing her as the state’s top federal prosecutor.
New: House Dems announced legislation that would move the Marshals out of the Justice Department and into the judicial branch, amid rising threats against judges and concerns about the independence of the courts. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
The Trump administration is ratcheting up its threats of prosecution against Democrats and other critics, in an escalation of its use of the legal system to go after perceived enemies, @justinfwise.bsky.social and @suzannemonyak.bsky.social report
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The Justice Department removed the acting national security head from his post hours after Attorney General Pam Bondi saw a portrait of former President Joe Biden continuing to hang in the division’s front office, @justinfwise.bsky.social reports
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Our story revealing Blatt's outreach and the DOJ's plan to drop the case linked here.
As we reported earlier, the Justice Department was suing under a civil rights law and seeking money damages for children who allegedly faced sex abuse at Southwest Key shelters.
Blatt claimed in an email to Trump DOJ leaders that, if successful, it would "actually incentivize illegal crossings."
HHS said the decision is tied to its move to to stop placing children in Southwest Key shelters and move all children currently there to other shelters.
Southwest Key has received billions in federal grants over the years to provide housing. It is unclear where the children are being moved to.
New: US officially drops case accusing Southwest Key Programs, the US's largest housing provider for migrant children, of failing to act on sexual abuse by its employees.
Move follows direct plea by prominent Supreme Court litigator Lisa Blatt to get Trump DOJ to drop the case.
The Justice Department plans to drop a lawsuit alleging sexual abuse by employees of a company that houses thousands of unaccompanied migrant children, @justinfwise.bsky.social and @suzannemonyak.bsky.social report
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Chegg, the online education company, has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google, alleging the company used its monopoly in search to coerce websites into allowing it to scrape their content for use in AI models. assets.bwbx.io/documents/us...
NEW FOIA Files newsletter is out
USAID told me it can’t release documents via #FOIA due to “recent developments”
Meanwhile, a memo I obtained sent to DHS FOIA officers this week directs them to “maximize transparency” when processing FOIA requests
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NEW: A White House declaration that Elon Musk is operating as a mere adviser as he pushes a relentless campaign to slash government spending sets up a constitutional clash over the billionaire Trump ally’s role in government.
W/ analysis from @jshaub.bsky.social on legal test Musk's role creates.
