For my story on the CR today, I heard from private sector attorneys who supplement the work of public defenders and haven't been paid since JULY: www.law360.com/articles/240...

Reminder that impeachment starts in the House. When asked if the House Judiciary Cmt is planning anything similar a spox for Jim Jordan told me, "Everything is on the table."

I've asked the office of Rep. Jim Jordan (House Judiciary Chair) for comment. Stay tuned I guess

NEWS: The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a subcommittee hearing chaired by Cruz on 11/18 titled "Impeachment: Holding Rogue Judges Responsible" This is a big escalation in the rhetoric we've been hearing for months on this

Judiciary related provisions in the Senate CR agreement

Senior Judge Mark Wolf writes he’s resigning to be able to speak out: “Trump is using the law for partisan purposes, targeting his adversaries while sparing his friends and donors from investigation, prosecution, and possible punishment” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

News: How the prolonged shutdown is impacting federal defenders/CJA panel attorneys AND budget anomalies the judiciary has submitted to Congress for a possible CR www.law360.com/articles/240...

Deputy AG Todd Blanche is currently speaking at a Federalist Society convention. About 5 months ago Trump called longtime FedSoc exec Leonard Leo a "sleazebag" (Other Trump officials have spoken at this event too) fedsoc.org/conferences/...

Looking to hear from CJA panel attorneys about the impact of the shutdown and funding shortage since July. Specifically want to know how this is affecting you personally and your clients. Feel free to message me here or email [email protected]. Thanks!

Judicial and US attorney nominees for Mississippi are being held up in committee over an unrelated spat between senators on and off the judiciary committee 👀 www.law360.com/articles/240...

Trump went on a rant about blue-slips during the breakfast for GOP senators at the WH this morning. Says he has the right to pick his judges and US attorneys He once again teased "going to court" over blue-slips

Dunlap, breaking the drought of no GOP appointed judges on the 1st Circuit, will be based in Maine. The Maine senators were split. Collins is a stronger supporter, King is not. His rationale is below: www.law360.com/articles/240...

Feature alert: It's been about 5 months since DOJ cut ties with the ABA. Here's how judicial nominee ratings (long considered the gold standard) are going and what folks on both sides are saying www.law360.com/pulse/articl...

Funding for public defender services in Washington, D.C., is about to run out as the government shutdown drags on www.law360.com/articles/240...

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is calling on the federal judiciary to set formal policies regarding artificial intelligence after he exposed two mishaps involving federal judges in New Jersey and Mississippi. www.law360.com/artic...

The Senate Judiciary Committee has received pre-hearing paperwork for anticipated judicial nominees for Texas, Alaska and Arkansas, despite no formal announcement yet from President Donald Trump.

Story here: www.law360.com/articles/240...

Baldwin officially opposes Rebecca Taibleson for the 7th Circuit, based in her state (Reminder blue-slips are NOT needed for circuit judges anymore)

NEW: Grassley received responses from NJ and Mississippi federal judges following his inquiry on alleged use of AI in faulty orders they issued (see below) Both owned up to it. In one case it was an intern and in the other it was a clerk Story tk www.law360.com/articles/239...

TW: suicide There is an epidemic in law enforcement that often goes unnoticed, which is the number of correctional officers who die by suicide I looked into why that is and some pending legislation that would work to fix that This is in front of the pay wall www.law360.com/articles/239...

Durbin’s office released the following on the judiciary’s upcoming funding constraints, which cites my reporting from earlier this week

CIGIE has still not been funded, meaning oversight dot gov has been down since 10/1 In lieu of that, @democrats-judiciary.house.gov have launched an IG repository on their website democrats-judiciary.house.gov/OIG_Repository

My latest on the shutdown’s impact on the courts and how my question to Grassley inspired (?) future legislation to protect the judiciary from shutdowns “You woke me up to that” www.law360.com/articles/239...

Durbin just now: "We don't need National Guard troops to bring peace to Chicago; we just need a few runners," referring to the Chicago Marathon this past weekend

Cotton and Blackburn introduced a bill yesterday that would allow current/former federal judges and prosecutors (state, local, and federal) to carry concealed firearms www.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-r...

Running x shutdown news: the Army 10-Miler is ON Good luck to all the runners! Full deets here-https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1JGqpjZC7e/

“The only way to get a muscle stronger is to exercise it” —Kaine talking about Congress utilizing its Article I powers (Also a reminder for us runners who loathe strength training)

The Senate voted, along party lines, tonight to confirm the second batch of noms under the new rules. This included 2 top DOJ roles and 16 US attorneys www.law360.com/articles/239...

Bondi told Whitehouse she could not say whether DOJ's Office of Professional Responsibility opened an investigation into now-Judge Emil Bove for conduct when he was a top DOJ official

AG Bondi is testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee now. Here is her statement for the record: www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, pressed two federal judges on Monday about their possible use of artificial intelligence in court orders that contained a multitude of errors.

Update from the federal judiciary on the shutdown---it has two weeks more of funding than initially thought (new deadline is Oct. 17) www.uscourts.gov/data-news/ju...

NEW: Grassley and Collins say OMB has released funds for the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee, following their calls for such the other day

In non-shutdown news, Trump Lindsey Halligan to be the full-term US attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia www.congress.gov/nomination/1...

When you go to DOJ's website there's a notice on top blaming the Democrats for the shutdown

The top Rs on the Senate Appropriations and Judiciary committees are trying to prevent OMB from effectively shuttering the independent agency for federal watchdogs OMB response below www.law360.com/articles/239...

Sens. Collins & Grassley urged OMB on Monday to release appropriated funds for inspectors general "Any adverse consequences will be solely due to OMB’s decision not to apportion available funds, rather than any lapse in appropriations" www.collins.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

How a shutdown would impact the courts/DOJ: www.law360.com/articles/239...

Former VP Mike Pence's org, Advancing American Freedom, has come out in support of Seventh Circuit nominee Rebecca Taibleson following attacks against her from other conservative groups www.law360.com/articles/239...

New: 270+ individuals and orgs, including law firms, bar associations and advocacy groups today urged the Senate to reject two House bills that they say would usurp the judicial selection process in DC and the independence of DC's AG www.law360.com/articles/239...

Sen. Kennedy just introduced a companion bill to get rid of DC's Judicial Nomination Commission

On the list of 48 nominees subject to the new Senate rules for confirmation is a local DC judge nominee (Edward Aloysius O’Connell for the DC Superior Court) There are NOT other judicial nominees www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

The House voted 218-211 tonight, along party lines, to terminate commission that vets and picks potential judicial nominees for DC's local courts

Today Rebecca Taibleson, a federal prosecutor in Wisconsin tapped for the 7th Circuit, fended off opposition to her nomination from *conservative* groups Sen. Johnson, R-Wisc., who introduced her at the hearing, told me "I completely disagree" with the criticism www.law360.com/articles/238...

Story here: Confirmed that USMS under this CR would get $30M for *executive branch* security and I have some interesting (at least I think) deets on how that works law360.com/articles/238...

Grassley started to open the Senate Judiciary Cmt hearing and Kennedy immediately interrupted to wish him a happy bday Kennedy says Grassley's bday cake has so many candles "it looks like a prairie fire" Grassley thanked him then said "maybe we can get down to work"

New this morning: 40+ retired federal judge signed onto an open letter for Constitution Day, sounding the alarm on attacks to the rule of law and judicial independence I spoke with two of the judges about their specific motivations for signing on ⤵️ www.law360.com/articles/238...

The CR text just released includes increased funding for USMS and SCOTUS Summary: appropriations.house.gov/sites/evo-su... Text: appropriations.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

The House Oversight Cmt will hold a hearing on 9/18 @ 10am with DC Mayor Muriel Bowser, Council of the District of Columbia Chair Phil Mendelson and DC AG Brian Schwalb, per notice that just went out

More than 500 threats have been made to federal judges over the last year to over 300 distinct judges, according to recent data from USMS www.law360.com/pulse/articl...