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The 2 advocacy groups trying to permit the public to see Jack Smith’s Vol 2 each tried to intervene before Judge Cannon twice—once in 2/25 and once in 2/26. She refused each time. They’re now asking to have all their appeals heard the week of June 22.
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Mediator in the Fulton Co. voting records search case will be Harold Melton, former Chief Justice of the GA supreme court.
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Here's the rule, which casts the effort as "Ending the Weaponization of the Bar Complaint and Investigation Process" aboutblaw.com/bk49
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JUST IN: Trump DOJ proposes surprise rule aiming to let Attorney General Pam Bondi suspend state bar investigations into alleged misconduct by DOJ lawyers. Very unclear if there'd be legal authority for the AG to intervene in this manner.
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Govt's appeal brief is due Friday. So it'll be interesting to see if they ask for a continuance—on the grounds that they'd planned to drop the appeal due to its frivolousness but their boss said they couldn't.
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and it's official:
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It's official. Govt asks to withdraw its unopposed motion to dismiss its appeal in the law firm executive order cases.
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can you believe this?
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Sorry, it's *3 violations every 2 weeks.*
03.03.2026 14:36 — 👍 54 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Henceforth he’ll require declarations of both the head of civil division in the US Attys Office & one from the local Newark ICE director or dep director.
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“Mistakes can be made. But when the same mistakes happen over and over again --- the picture can start to look different.”
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After DOJ admitted 17 violations of no-transfer orders (2 every 3 weeks) in DNJ, Judge Farbiarz orders local ICE director to sign affidavit acknowledging each future order. Implies that new violations will constitute criminal contempt on a “willful blindness” theory.
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it means they know they don't have a leg to stand on.
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So the battle is metamorphosing from a statutory one to a constitutional one (due process)—and not just in Texas, where the 5th Circuit has adopted Trump’s ultra-minority statutory reading. See @kyledcheney.bsky.social here:
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The above quote was from Judge Johnston (GW Bush) in WVa. Here’s another from Judge Berger in WVa (Obama): “a bond hearing before an immigration judge would not comport with due process. ... IJs who provide neutral adjudications have been removed.”
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The battle used to be over whether detained noncitizens should get bond hearings. But now judges want detainees released outright, because bond hearings before AG Bondi’s immigration judges would be “futile.” h/t @kyledcheney.bsky.social ...
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Tomorrow at 9am ET, @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org, @atabatabai.bsky.social, Troy Edwards, and @sranderson.bsky.social will discuss the U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran, Iran's response, and what may happen next.
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WOW. 19 people, all who were imprisoned and mistreated in a foreign prison at the direct command of the United States, are brave enough to say “We are innocent, and we will endure more time imprisoned to prove that.”
I can only admire the enormous courage such a move takes.
Those still in VZ are not eligible to apply for inclusion in Boasberg's order, since govt said that would interfere with sensitive foreign relations issues at the moment.
28.02.2026 15:34 — 👍 43 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0Their willingness to do this suggests to me that they think the govt's evidence that they are, in fact, members of Tren de Aragua is weak.
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That's from a filing yesterday in the JGG case before Judge Boasberg.
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Plaintiffs continue their outreach and report here on “the number of Plaintiffs who wish to travel independently to a U.S. port of entry or who wish to be flown from a third country to the United States for their court proceedings, understanding that in both scenarios they will be detained upon arrival.” ECF No. 247 at 7. There are nineteen (19) such Plaintiffs as of the date of this filing. Further details are submitted separately under seal, as ordered by the Court.
Incredible.
19 of the 137 Venezuelans whom Trump sent to CECOT under the Alien Enemies Act, & who were swapped back to VZ & then escaped to 3d countries, seek to come back to the US to contest their Tren de Aragua designation—knowing they'll be detained (& God knows what else) by the Trump Admin.
On Lawfare Daily, @kovarsky.bsky.social joined @rparloff.bsky.social to discuss patronage pardons–pardons a president issues to reward and possibly even induce criminality by political supporters–and ponders whether anything can be done to rein them in. youtu.be/ShnM_n7bEdc
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I got to talk with @lawfaremedia.org and @rparloff.bsky.social about the subject of my article, Patronage Pardons (Duke LJ), which explains how Trump uses pardons to power a loyalty for protection racket.
Podcast: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/lawf...
Article: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
A draft of Lee's article is available here:
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Prof @kovarsky.bsky.social spoke to me this week about "Patronage Pardons," his upcoming Duke Law Journal article. Those are pardons that reward or even incite criminality by a president's political supporters. Thanks, Lee! The video version is here and ...
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