NEW: DOJ has been in settlement talks with Michael Flynn -- Trump's first national security adviser seeking $50M for his prosecution by ex-special counsel Robert Mueller -- and Stefan Passantino, a Trump I White House lawyer who accused the House Jan. 6 committee of privacy violations bit.ly/4hWdolc

8th Circ. Judge David Stras talking to Federalist Society in Dec. about what his grandparents' Holocaust experience taught him about the First Amendment. It's closed press, as is what appears to be every FedSoc event listed on their calendar going forward. Policy change? fedsoc.org/events/what-...

NEWS: Miami US Attorney prompted prosecutor resignations by demanding they sign statements under penalty of perjury naming those with whom they discussed an assignment expected to target Trump's foes, prompting office-wide fear of witch hunt news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Judge VanDyke said competitive shooting is an “outlet” that allows him to hang up his robe and connect with “ordinary Americans.” “It’s not with stuffy lawyers,” VanDyke said. @jordanonrecord.bsky.social @suzannemonyak.bsky.social @jacqthomsen.bsky.social report news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

There were few signs of any distance between the Federalist Society and Trump, who’d expressed disappointment earlier this year about advice he’d gotten from the organization on judicial nominations during his first term, @suzannemonyak.bsky.social reports news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche described a “war” against the federal judiciary at the Federalist Society conference today and called on young conservative lawyers in the audience to join the fight, @suzannemonyak.bsky.social reports news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

There's now "more antisemitism on the right than at any time in my life," Sen. Ted Cruz told the Federalist Society today — urging conservatives to "stand up" to bigotry after Tucker Carlson interviewed white nationalist Nick Fuentes on his podcast. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

SCOOP: Inside the Miami US attorney’s office readying grand jury probes into DOJ officials/special counsel’s offices who investigated Trump: - recruiting lawyers - election conspiracist’s possible return - MAGA influencer-fueled reorg news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

South Florida US attorney’s office is recruiting prosecutors and restructuring its chain of command in preparation for a grand jury investigation expected to target former DOJ officials and others involved in Trump cases, @benjaminpenn.bsky.social reports news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

A Trump-appointed judge in Delaware has declined to appoint the president’s interim US attorney to head the office in the state on an ongoing basis. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Former DOJ official Chad Mizelle suggested the only way to push the Supreme Court to address this is to apply political pressure, including by impeaching federal judges, @suzannemonyak.bsky.social reports. This problem must be solved with “power,” Mizelle said news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

A federal jury found a former Justice Department employee not guilty of misdemeanor assault over a viral incident in which he allegedly threw a sandwich at a Customs and Border Protection officer news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Hi from the Federalist Society’s national convention, which is kicking off here in DC. Each seat in the ballroom has a commemorative coin of a significant Supreme Court ruling, I’ve found 4 of the 5 so far

NEWS: Up to four FBI agents who were fired yesterday over Arctic Frost, then reinstated b/c US Attorney Pirro said they're critical to an active public corruption probe, have been fired and walked out a 2nd time today. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

CBP Agent Gregory Lairmore said the sandwich “exploded all over my uniform,” and left behind mustard stains and an onion hanging on his radio antenna news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

A trial begins today for the DC man who went viral for throwing a sandwich at a CBP officer in August. Learn more about the case: bit.ly/3JFee9g

NJ solo practitioner Daniel Ginzburg will make his Supreme Court debut this week against Lisa Blatt, who he says first approached him about the case, @justinfwise.bsky.social reports. “I had no idea who she was,” said Ginzburg. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Scoop: FBI ousts senior official after Kash Patel’s fury over news of his use of government jet to see girlfriend perform. The removed head of critical incident response group was 27-year FBI veteran who oversaw aviation sections. news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/fbi-o...

The FBI forced out a senior official overseeing aviation shortly after Director Patel grew outraged about revelations of his publicly-available jet logs indicating he’d flown to see his musician girlfriend perform, @benjaminpenn.bsky.social reports news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Essayli Disqualification Order Puts Focus on First Assistant Job

Court-appointed specialists who aid defense lawyers are cutting costs & refusing assignments after 4 months of unpaid work. W/ no end in sight to the shutdown, lawyers are telling courts they can't get the experts their clients need. w/ @maiaspoto.bsky.social news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

News: The Texas senators have sent recommended picks for federal judgeships to the White House. Among the new names: Erin Nealy Cox is up for a seat in Dallas, local judge Chris Wolfe is tapped for Waco, fed prosecutor Rob Jones for McAllen news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Prominent Supreme Court litigator Neal Katyal is set to argue for businesses challenging Trump's tariffs... after winning a coin toss. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Four sitting Supreme Court justices and a trio of presidents are eligible to collect checks from Anthropic PBC’s $1.5 billion deal with authors whose books were part of a pirated database the AI company downloaded, Annelise Levy reports news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/anthr...

Lawyers arguing to a Sixth Circuit panel—including one Justice Department attorney—referenced Donald Trump serving a third term, after the president said that he’d “love” to run for one, Eric Heisig reports for @bloomberglaw.com news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

My first at @bloomberglaw.com: 31 former federal judges today signed on to an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reject President Trump's sweeping tariffs. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Former federal judges are lamenting a new challenge their colleagues on the bench face: government lawyers making false statements in court, @suzannemonyak.bsky.social reports news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

NEW: Trump's nominee to head DOJ's Criminal Division just said at his Senate hearing that AG Bondi & DAG Blanche will soon be issuing a revised policy on who's allowed to communicate with White House about criminal cases news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

President Trump’s overhaul of the Virginia US attorney’s office prosecuting his foes has driven out the leadership of its national security unit, draining its experience disrupting terrorists and spies, @benjaminpenn.bsky.social reports news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

A large bloc of Senate Democrats voted to confirm a trial court nominee in Alabama in the strongest pushback yet on progressive calls to reject Trump judicial picks outright.

NEW: There's a shorthand to describe US citizens getting swept up in immigration raids: "Kavanaugh Stops." We dive into the label that's taken off on the left since Kavanaugh said immigration stops for legal residents are “typically brief." news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

A US judge accused prosecutors of “insolence and indifference” after he suggested they impeded an investigation into the attempted murder of his former clerk during a high-profile case and misrepresented his follow-up efforts, @suzannemonyak.bsky.social reports news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

The government shutdown threatens to stress resources for an already strapped criminal defense bar, as the federal judiciary prepares to run out of cash, @suzannemonyak.bsky.social reports news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

John Bolton indicted news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Justice Kavanaugh's suggestion of extending the Supreme Court’s logic that affirmative action in college admissions needed an “end point” to race-based redistricting would represent an enormous step for the conservative court, @justinfwise.bsky.social reports news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

This is the first time a Trump judicial nominee this term has gotten a significant portion of the Democratic caucus to back their nomination, as progressives have put Senate Democrats on notice about doing that: news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Scoop: DOJ scheduled to seek grand jury indictment of John Bolton this afternoon in Greenbelt, MD. news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...

I was at Judge Bove and Mascott's debut argument this morning, where they sat on opposite ends of the dais. Bove didn't ask any questions but Mascott dove right in and pressed lawyers about conducting a history and tradition analysis over New Jersey gun/magazine restrictions.

A more conservative Third Circuit will debut at en banc arguments, as two new appointees of President Donald Trump are expected to hear their first case, @jacqthomsen.bsky.social reports news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

President Trump’s Chicago crackdown is forcing one of his more conventional US attorneys, Andrew Boutros, to balance the district’s entrenched apolitical traditions against escalating White House pressure, @benjaminpenn.bsky.social and Megan Crepeau report news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Reagan appointed judges are emerging as vocal critics of the Trump administration’s efforts to circumvent court orders or challenge the law in unprecedented ways, @jacqthomsen.bsky.social and Brian Dowling report news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Demand Justice is back, and they’ve put Senate Democrats on notice about supporting Trump’s judicial nominees. This week they expanded their media blitz against select Senate Judiciary Dems who voted to advance Trump district court picks: news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

A federal judge’s sentence of just over eight years for the would-be killer of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh is teed up to be scrutinized by a federal appeals court as critics contend the punishment was too light, @jacqthomsen.bsky.social reports news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

"The court is required to continue its constitutional functions" US judges so far have rejected the Justice Department’s requests to delay more than a dozen legal challenges to Trump administration policies as the government shutdown enters its second week: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

“I trust and rely upon the men and women of the United States Marshals Service and the Court Security Officers to provide security at the Dirksen Courthouse; this includes the perimeter of the building,” Chief Judge Virginia Kendall said in a statement. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said, Megan Crepeau and @benjaminpenn.bsky.social report news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

How such an active summer affects the new term is anyone’s guess, Justin Wise reports. But it raises questions about whether the pace of orders will compound any present tensions, @justinfwise.bsky.social reports news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

More turmoil in the US attorney's office that brought the Comey indictment at Trump's explicit demand. Two longtime prosecutors who had risen to leadership positions in the Virginia office were fired in recent days, Salvador Rizzo reports. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

The three liberal justices are diverging more when it comes to the emergency docket, reflecting differing views on when—and how aggressively—to critique their conservative colleagues’ approach, @justinfwise.bsky.social reports news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...