The head of DOJ’s Civil Rights Division is advancing an anti-DEI approach in university admissions probes that goes beyond SCOTUS’ landmark ruling upending affirmative action, civil rights lawyers and former government attorneys told me. For @bloomberglaw.com: news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Scoop with @ccastronuovo.bsky.social: Pete Hegseth has authorized forced deployments of reservists as DOJ immigration judges. Email to marine reserves seeks "volunteers for involuntary orders." news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

SCOOP: Stephen Miller was driving force behind DOJ memo eroding decades of disability rights protections. His push was rooted in view (not backed by evidence) that de-institutionalizing people w/ disabilities increases homelessness. w/ @ccastronuovo.bsky.social news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Seamless Ken Paxton-Justice Department-Judge Reed O'Connor same-day sequence today echoes another last year against in-state tuition for undocumented students, @ccastronuovo.bsky.social reports news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

The Justice Department’s Harmeet Dhillon can extend the anti-DEI approach she’s championed under President Trump as the Education Department offloads key responsibilities, @tianaheadley.bsky.social and @ccastronuovo.bsky.social report news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

for those interested in Wyoming US attorney's grand jury experiences, here's @ccastronuovo.bsky.social detailing it all on May 18 news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Federal judges found Trump’s pick for Wyoming US attorney up for a floor vote today committed misconduct by making “inflammatory” remarks to grand jurors ahead of indictments charging defendants with murder, and other crimes, @ccastronuovo.bsky.social reports news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Former FBI Director James Comey can overcome the Trump administration’s latest indictment against him by arguing the social media post that spurred federal charges counts as protected political speech, @ccastronuovo.bsky.social reports news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

The Trump budget proposal released Friday would elevate the DOL office that oversees work visa programs, back expansion of immigrant detention, and boost funding to immigration courts. @ccastronuovo.bsky.social, Angelica Franganillo Diaz, and I break down the highlights:

Another federal district court panel has declined to approve a Trump US attorney, this time Western Virginia's acting chief prosecutor Robert Tracci who replaced Trump's first pick after he got pushed out. Story from @ccastronuovo.bsky.social: news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Well before DOJ workload crisis defending detained migrant petitions spilled into public view in MN, 6 US attorneys warned judiciary of the resource-draining flood. Predictably, it has since exploded. Story w/ @ccastronuovo.bsky.social & Megan Crepeau: news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Le said she was “put on this special mission to help” the US attorney’s office with habeas claims on Jan. 5. “They are overwhelmed and they need help,” Le said, adding that she “stupidly” volunteered. Her detail has now ended, reports @ccastronuovo.bsky.social news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Julie Le compared pushing ICE and DHS to comply as pulling teeth and said she wished the judge would hold her in contempt so she could get 24 hours of sleep, reports @ccastronuovo.bsky.social. Credit to FOX9's Paul Blume for having it first news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

“Government lawyers’ indifference to the ethical restrictions invites defendants to argue that the prosecutions are vindictive, the prosecutors are biased, and the proceedings are unfair,” Fordham's Bruce Green tells @ccastronuovo.bsky.social news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Harmeet Dhillon is using social media to single out anti-DEI targets, an approach former division lawyers say is at odds with DOJ attorneys’ responsibility to carefully vet discrimination claims, @ccastronuovo.bsky.social reports news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...