Sam Zwingli

Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court MEMORANDUM FOR THE ATTORNEY GENERAL THE SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY SUBJECT:      Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court Lawyers

I don’t see how, unless our entire profession stands shoulder-to-shoulder in unity, we successfully push back against this effort to break our profession and our democracy.

Cowering & compromising won’t work. He is attacking us for the success of our work.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Every time you see someone powerful acting like a craven coward in the face of this authoritarian menace, let it stiffen your own spine. We are all we've got.

The successful brief in opposition was filed by my Hogan Lovells colleagues, including Jess Ellsworth, J.A. Sagar, and @samzwingli.bsky.social.

6-TRO

Here is Judge Paul Engelmayer’s remarkable TRO barring (in effect) DOGE from accessing Treasury’s payment system & ordering (in effect) any DOGE person who has had access to destroy anything already copied. A short thread ...
www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

I’m so proud to have been part of this team.

I’m trying, and I hope other people will try, to hold onto the simple notion that a US president cannot simply declare a federal law that was passed last year and literally upheld this week to be a nullity—even if it’s a not-so-hot law. The Congress is the body that can amend or repeal federal laws.

Here's the link to the (brief) 5-4 ruling by #SCOTUS declining to block President-Elect Trump's sentencing tomorrow in the New York hush money case:

www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

why'd they name this app bluesky when Elders Scroll was right there

LOL. This was the giggle I needed mid-brief. Thank you for your service

#appellatesky, who are your go to accounts for circuit-specific updates? When I clerked on the Fifth Circuit, I set alerts for each @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social
post.