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Trump Pick Pirro Confirmed as Top Federal Prosecutor for D.C. Former Fox News host Jeanine Pirro was confirmed as the chief federal prosecutor for Washington, the first of President Donald Trump’s controversial picks for US attorney roles to win Senate approval.

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Trump Funding Case Judge Says Threats ‘Shook’ Faith in System A judge who heard a challenge to the Trump administration’s federal funding freeze received over 400 threatening voicemails and six credible death threats in an onslaught that he said “shook his faith...

A judge who heard a challenge to the Trump administration’s federal funding freeze received over 400 threatening voicemails and six credible death threats, which “shook his faith” in the judicial system, @suzannemonyak.bsky.social reports

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Kavanaugh Defends Court Silence on Explaining Trump Orders (1) Justice Brett Kavanaugh defended the absence of explanations in recent Supreme Court decisions that have allowed the Trump administration to enact its policies.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh defended the absence of explanations in recent Supreme Court decisions that have allowed the Trump administration to enact its policies, @jacqthomsen.bsky.social reports

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DOJ Drops Fraud Case Against Trump Donor, Ex-Fatburger Executive The Justice Department has moved to dismiss corporate fraud charges against Andrew Wiederhorn, a Trump donor who is founder and chairman of restaurant franchisor FAT Brands Inc.

NEWS: Justice Dept just dismissed major fraud case against Trump donor & Fat Brands founder (Fatburger, Johnny Rockets) Andrew Wiederhorn. The filing from embattled US Attorney Bill Essayli comes an hour before his new DOJ appointment to stay on takes effect. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Trump’s LA Prosecutor Orders Cases His Staff Say Lack Evidence In the three-plus months Bill Essayli has run the Los Angeles US Attorney’s Office, he has ignored and overruled the recommendations of senior prosecutors, instructed staff to disregard Justice Depart...

Deep dive w/@maiaspoto.bsky.social: LA US Attorney Bill Essayli has overruled counsel of sr prosecutors, instructed staff to disregard DOJ policies & forced lawyers to redo indictment failures before new grand juries - once yelling "F*&^ the Justice Manual."
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Trump’s LA Prosecutor Orders Cases His Staff Say Lack Evidence In the three-plus months Bill Essayli has run the Los Angeles US Attorney’s Office, he has ignored and overruled the recommendations of senior prosecutors, instructed staff to disregard Justice Depart...

Los Angeles's US attorney Bill Essayli’s pattern of yelling at career attorneys to pursue MAGA-aligned cases despite their warnings of insufficient evidence has contributed to an exodus, @benjaminpenn.bsky.social and @maiaspoto.bsky.social report

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Wisconsin Senators Attempt Bipartisan Judicial Pick With Trump Senators in one of two remaining states represented by a Republican and a Democrat will soon find out how much weight their bipartisan judicial recommendations carry in the Trump White House.

Senators in one of two remaining states represented by a Republican and a Democrat will soon find out how much weight their bipartisan judicial recommendations carry in the Trump White House, @tianaheadley.bsky.social reports

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Trump’s DOJ Sidesteps Norms to Boost Ally Alina Habba as US Attorney President Donald Trump’s administration sidestepped tradition this week and criticized judges who sought to bypass his ally as the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey — a pattern that may repeat itse...

President Donald Trump’s administration sidestepped tradition this week and criticized judges who sought to bypass his ally as the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey, @justinfwise.bsky.social and @davidvoreacos.bsky.social report

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Bondi Ups Clash With Judges Over US Attorney Habba in New Jersey Tensions between the Trump administration and the judiciary flared on Tuesday when Attorney General Pam Bondi removed a US attorney for New Jersey that had been named by federal judges to replace the ...

Tensions between the Trump administration and the judiciary flared on Tuesday when Attorney General Pam Bondi removed a US attorney for New Jersey that had been named by federal judges to replace the president’s choice.

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Excited for the @thebaltimorebanner.com expanding into Montgomery County this fall.

Trump’s Third Circuit Delaware Nominee Has Few Ties to the State President Donald Trump’s pick for a federal appeals court seat in Delaware has a sterling resume but few ties to the state or the circuit court overall.

Jennifer Mascott isn’t admitted to practice law in the state of Delaware, according to the Office of the Delaware Supreme Court. Property records show she owns a property near a beach there, @tianaheadley.bsky.social reports

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Trump Intends to Nominate Jennifer Mascott to Third Circuit Seat President Donald Trump announced plans to nominate Jennifer Mascott, a law professor working in his White House Counsel’s office, to a federal appeals court seat.

President Donald Trump announced plans to nominate Jennifer Mascott, a law professor working in his White House Counsel’s office, to a federal appeals court seat.

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Supreme Court Faces Heat After Unexplained Rulings for Trump The US Supreme Court is fueling criticism that it’s treating presidential administrations differently and acting as a partisan partner of Donald Trump in continuing to greenlight his policies without ...

NEW: The US Supreme Court is fueling criticism that it’s treating presidential administrations differently and acting as a partisan partner of Donald Trump in continuing to greenlight his policies without any explanation.
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Bondi Overrode Weaponization Team in Dismissing Vaccine Case Attorney General Pam Bondi’s abrupt order to drop charges against the Utah plastic surgeon accused of selling false Covid vaccination cards came months after Bondi’s weaponization working group cleare...

News: AG Pam Bondi's order to dismiss charges against Utah plastic surgeon accused of selling fake Covid vaccine cards ran counter to an earlier decision from her weaponization working group. In April, the group rebuffed an appeal from doctor's lawyer: news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Tirrell wrote on LinkedIn, "I took the oath at 18 as a Midshipman to 'support and defend the Constitution of the United States.' I have taken that oath at least five more times since then.That oath did not come with the caveat that I need only support the Constitution when it is easy or convenient."

Two-thirds of the DOJ unit defending Trump policies in court have quit The U.S. Justice Department unit charged with defending against legal challenges to signature Trump administration policies - such as restricting birthright citizenship and slashing funding to Harvard University - has lost nearly two-thirds of its staff, according to a list seen by Reuters.

* U.S. JUSTICE DEPARTMENT UNIT THAT DEFENDS TRUMP POLICY HAS LOST TWO-THIRDS OF ITS STAFF, FORMER STAFF LAWYERS SAY

* 69 LAWYERS HAVE LEFT FEDERAL PROGRAMS BRANCH SINCE TRUMP'S ELECTION, FORMER STAFF LAWYERS SAY

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Bondi Fires Her Personal Ethics Chief as DOJ Purge Continues Attorney General Pam Bondi has fired her personal ethics adviser, removing the Justice Department’s top official responsible for counseling the most senior political appointees, according to two peopl...

Scoop: Attorney General Pam Bondi has fired her personal ethics chief, Joseph Tirrell. Without explanation, she removes DOJ's career ethics office director who advised the most senior political appointees (such as Todd Blanche, Kash Patel) on conflicts. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Bondi Orders Dismissal for Doctor Accused of Faking Covid Shots Attorney General Pam Bondi ordered prosecutors to drop charges during the trial of a Utah plastic surgeon accused of selling fake Covid-19 vaccination cards to patients and destroying $28,000 worth of...

Five days after jury selection began in Salt Lake City, Attorney General Bondi announced on X that she'd ordered prosecutors to drop charges against a Utah doctor accused of selling fake Covid-19 vaccination cards to patients, @benjaminpenn.bsky.social reports

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Votes Suggest Chief Justice Regains Control of ‘Roberts Court’ Chief Justice John Roberts was most often in the majority this term, dissenting in just two of the 58 argued cases that the US Supreme Court decided and leaving much of the writing to others.

It isn’t clear if Roberts’ presence in the majority 96% of the time this term signals that his view is often likely to prevail, or whether his vote is shaped by a desire to be in the majority, UC Davis's Aaron Tang tells @kimberlyrobinsn.bsky.social

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DOJ Overruled Prosecutors to Get Deal for Trump-Linked Governor Justice Department leadership ordered prosecutors about to start a major bribery trial to reach a more lenient deal with Puerto Rico’s former governor, who had endorsed President Donald Trump, and a b...

The Justice Department ordered prosecutors in a major bribery case to reach a more lenient deal with Puerto Rico’s former governor, who had endorsed President Trump, and a billionaire represented by Trump's personal lawyer, @benjaminpenn.bsky.social reports
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Ex-Puerto Rico Governor With Trump Ties Gets Bribery Case Break Justice Department leadership ordered prosecutors about to start a major bribery trial to reach a more lenient deal with Puerto Rico’s former governor, who had endorsed President Donald Trump, and a b...

Scoop: After Trump's personal lawyer complained of weaponization, DOJ leadership ordered prosecutors to settle w/ ex-Puerto Rico governor (who endorsed Trump) & billionaire banker just before their bribery trial. They got misdemeanor plea deals. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Justice Department Lawsuit Drags Courts Into Political Fight A Justice Department lawsuit against all of the federal district judges in Maryland threatens to pull a judiciary that has sought to defend itself from claims of partisanship into a political brawl.

A Justice Department lawsuit against all of the federal district judges in Maryland threatens to pull a judiciary that has sought to defend itself from claims of partisanship into a political brawl, @jacqthomsen.bsky.social reports

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Conservative Judges Shun Retirement Under Trump’s Second Term Federal judges are retiring at a historically slow pace at the onset of President Donald Trump’s second term, most strikingly among those appointed by his Republican predecessors.

Federal judges are retiring at a historically slow pace at the onset of President Donald Trump’s second term, most strikingly among those appointed by his Republican predecessors, @tianaheadley.bsky.social reports

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More Low-Level Immigration Charges Approved by New DOJ Memo The Justice Department is now permitting prosecutors to charge undocumented immigrants with lower-level offenses for evading immigration officers when they’re arrested outside the district they initia...

New w/ @suzannemonyak.bsky.social: DOJ OLC overturns 1978 policy forbidding prosecutions of low-level border entry offenses when immigrants are apprehended outside the district they first entered. They can now be charged wherever they're arrested. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

White House Asked Bove About Judgeship After Adams Uproar (1) The White House approached Emil Bove about his interest in a federal judgeship about a month after he ordered the dismissal of corruption charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams.

NEW: The White House approached Emil Bove about his interest in a federal judgeship about a month after he ordered the dismissal of corruption charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams.

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Jackson Goes It Alone in Rebuke of Supreme Court Colleagues Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson called textualism “incessantly malleable” and accused her colleagues of giving the perception that the Supreme Court favors moneyed interests over ordinary citizens in one of two pointed dissents issued Friday.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson called textualism “incessantly malleable” and accused her colleagues of giving the perception that the Supreme Court favors moneyed interests over ordinary citizens in one of two pointed dissents issued Friday.

Just finished Bad Company by @greenwell.bsky.social. Great book!