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 news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

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 buff.ly/KXGzsyk

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 news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

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 news.bloomberglaw.com/white-collar...

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 news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

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 news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

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 www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

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.

Scoop w/ @justinfwise.bsky.social: Executives on eve of trial over foreign bribery accusations are asking DOJ No. 2 Emil Bove for dismissals in light of Trump EO pausing overseas bribery enforcement. Jones Day, other firms immedately go straight to the top. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

The FTC is suing PepsiCo, in a case that represents its second lawsuit in a month enforcing an FDR-era price discrimination law that antitrust enforcers largely abandoned starting in the 1980s. news.bloomberglaw.com/antitrust/ft...

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