#BREAKING: Over dissents from Justices Sotomayor, Kagan & Jackson, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the Slaughter case (allowing President Trump to remove the last Dem member of the FTC), *and* grants certiorari "before judgment" to decide whether to formally overrule its 1935 ruling in Humphrey's Executor.

Today’s “One First” looks at the status of the birthright citizenship cases—and their broader lessons for what we miss when we ignore the cases in which the Trump administration is both (1) losing; and (2) *not* seeking emergency/expedited appellate relief. It turns out that those are the majority:

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Executive orders have been the subject of a lot of cases in federal court challenging executive orders - but the United States has been a busy litigant enforcing EO policies, too. My latest on trends in affirmative US EO-related litigation: news.bloomberglaw.com/bloomberg-la...

Heading to Jiffy Lube Live in probably the rain for Hozier tonight. I'm delighted to see him, but the soggy spectre of Radiohead 2008 at (then) Nissan haunts me. Still, I'm ready to be transported by live music. Now as then, it's worth it.

A truly top-notch and informative discussion today about Trump v. CASA, nationwide injunctions, and the way forward. Thanks very much to Judge Kugler, @stevevladeck.bsky.social, & @eleanortyler.bsky.social for sharing your time and expertise. Available on-demand: webinars.on24.com/bloomberglaw...

Lawyers for a man charged with assaulting a D.C. police officer say he can't face a federal assault charge because the officer wasn't assisting federal agents Trump deployed to D.C. but rather those agents were assisting him.

I'm looking forward to moderating a fantastic panel of experts to talk about the future of litigation after Trump v. CASA's limitation on injunctive relief. Join Hon. Robert B. Kugler (Ret.), @stevevladeck.bsky.social, @eleanortyler.bsky.social, and me on Sept. 10 (12-1 ET): aboutblaw.com/bjmE

JUST IN: Kilmar Abrego Garcia has filed a new federal lawsuit in Maryland. Since it's a habeas corpus case, the petition isn't public now, but his lawyer said it challenges the Trump admin's scheme to send him to Uganda. www.allrisenews.com/p/kilmar-abr...

NEWS: @dcattorneygeneral.bsky.social is suing the Trump administration in federal court over a recent move to take day to day control of MPD. The lawsuit calls the move the “gravest threat to Home Rule that the District has ever faced.”

Attn adlaw profs to share with students: Yale Law Journal Student Essay Competition: Emerging Issues in the Executive Power www.yalejreg.com/nc/yale-law-...

Morning fun. The fountain in the pool we've set up to entertain the local wildlife died. Replaced it yesterday and it's attracting more attention than the old one. This is a Cooper's Hawk.

NEW FROM @reuters.com: Top U.S. law firms have sharply scaled back their efforts to challenge the federal government in court, especially on behalf of pro bono clients, in the face of threats from President Trump. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Why must dentists always criticize me for not flossing well enough? I don't criticize you for not knowing enough about the Supreme Court or the assassination of James Garfield or my other areas of niche expertise. Can't we call it even and make this a judgment-free zone?

In a new book, writer Suleika Jaouad explains why journaling is a form of alchemy — and offers tips on how to reignite your practice if you're feeling stuck, bored or uninspired by your own writing.

Through a little-used statute, Congress recently repealed EPA's preemption waivers for a set of California rules on vehicle emissions. The Congressional Review Act has a judicial review bar. But can courts review new claims challenging the move? Maybe. news.bloomberglaw.com/bloomberg-la...

Yay Justin Wise! news.bloomberglaw.com/white-collar...

My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.

A growing stream of lawsuits challenging AI-powered customer service systems as illegal wiretaps is forcing courts to grapple for the first time with whether and how to apply older privacy laws to emerging technology.

The White House’s latest moves to restrict state-level AI regulation are ripe for legal challenges that hinge on how federal agencies assert preemption and which funds the administration seeks to withhold from states.

NEW: The Trump admin sues to end NYC's sanctuary-city laws, claiming they violate the Constitution's Supremacy Clause. READ THE COMPLAINT, thanks to @johnannese.bsky.social: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Not long ago, nuclear fusion was confined to fiction. Now it looks more like a prosaic engineering challenge. Read today’s editorial:

Judges presiding over challenges to President Donald Trump‘s agenda are turning to administrative law to nullify his policies on a nationwide basis, even as that litigation will give the US Supreme Court a chance to consider reining in those remedies.

If you ride transit, you may walk as much as 30 minutes more A DAY! That means increased heart health, more muscle, and reducing the risk of heart disease and Type 2 diabetes. Enjoy your built in exercise, and stay hydrated in the summer temperatures.

Over at the Notice and Comment blog, today's Ad Law Reading Room entry is “The Gray Area: Finding Implicit Delegation to Agencies after Loper Bright,” by Matthew Stephenson. Check it out! www.yalejreg.com/nc/ad-law-re...

‘Beautiful form isn’t enough’: National Ballet of Japan – picture essay

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said the state of democracy in the US keeps her up at night, building on her dissents lamenting the Trump administration’s attempts to expand presidential authority and the decisions by fellow colleagues so far backing that effort.

One of the biggest questions about #SCOTUS’s birthright citizenship ruling is how viable class actions will be as an alternative—in challenging the citizenship EO specifically, and Trump policies in general. To tee up the issue, @katiephang.bsky.social and I did a 30-minute primer on class actions:

On that note — @emuyl-wired.bsky.social has her first @wired.com byline today! Really interesting look at the uncertainty in the insurance landscape around what RFK Jr. is doing on child vaccines www.wired.com/story/insure...

It's worth keeping in mind, insofar as today's #SCOTUS ruling is going to put a lot of pressure on federal district courts to certify nationwide class actions, that part of why nationwide classes have become harder to certify is because of ... the Supreme Court: www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-136-...

BREAKING: Supreme Court, 6-3, limits nationwide injunctions in cases challenging Trump's executive order to end birthright citizenship, staying injunctions where "broader than necessary to provide complete relief" to those challenging the orders. Lower courts are to decide how that is done.

⚡ Direct hit on the Washington Monument! ⚡ Happens with some frequency but not often caught on camera. Details and video at cwg.live.

I feel like SFO came in way too low. I like that airport.

The ‘dog days’ of summer get their name due to their association with the Dog Star, Sirius, found in the constellation Canis Major. The first visible rising of Sirius occurs during the hot stretch from early July to early September. Woof.

Contractions with 3 words: -she'd've -wouldn't've Contractions with more than 3 words: -y'all'll've -they'dn't've

Florida Supreme Court orders Florida Bar to end affiliation with American Bar Association (ABA). Commanded via letter from Chief Justice, no formal order, no opportunity for public or Bar members to comment.

People are having very strange conversations with ChatGPT, in which they discover secret cabals or conspiracies or that we are all in fact living in The Matrix. It sends these people into delusional spirals. Then ChatGPT tells them to email me about it. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...

Wednesday's Strawberry Moon rising behind Baltimore's iconic Domino Sugars sign #moon #strawberrymoon #baltimore #dominosugars #dominosugar #visitbaltimore #maryland @capitalweather.bsky.social #thePhotoHour #stormhour #NikonUSA

The less common "Sir, this is no longer a Wendy's"

We’re up to at least 97 cases in which district courts have blocked Trump policies—from 73 different judges (appointed by seven different presidents) in 25 different district courts across 10 circuits. Today’s “One First” looks at what critics of these rulings are leaving out of their narratives:

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Let’s do a bit of literary history next. This set is inspired by early modern books in the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and Folger Shakespeare Library collections. Shakespeare’s First Folio makes three biscuity appearances here. Honourable mentions also to Milton and to Beaumont and Fletcher.

NEWS: DOJ goes to SCOTUS over DOGE-related FOIA case, seeking to keep DOGE records from the public. The docket will be 24A1122.

Amidst a years-long funding crisis, some indie video game developers are turning back to an old stalwart: Kickstarter. This week's column: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Amazing news for those of us who struggle to tell some of the justices' voices apart: AP's youtube stream actually says who is speaking lol www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzn0...

(on an airplane, because that context matters) Invincible with Mark Wahlberg

Physical buttons are finally coming back to cars. 🤌 It’s not just an aesthetic choice, though—it’s a safety-conscious one. Research shows that reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high.

NYC’s congestion pricing is a policy miracle: Less traffic, less noise, faster transit, more business sales, more transit revenue. And it hasn’t produced the negative effects outside the cordon zone we were afraid of. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

NEW: In the Mahmoud Khalil case, Judge Farbiarz orders the government to give him a COMPLETE LIST of every time since 1975 it has invoked the secretary of state's power to deport someone for foreign-policy reasons—including a description of each case's facts and a copy of the official determination.

To be mentioned in the same sentence as @primuseve.bsky.social and teaching excellence is an honor. Eve sets the high bar for teaching excellence here @umichlaw.bsky.social.