At least a third of senior career leaders have left the Justice Department since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term, taking with them centuries of combined expertise, according to a Bloomberg Law analysis by @suzannemonyak.bsky.social news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

President Trump’s replacement of a Virginia US attorney with an inexperienced loyalist underscores the lose-lose situation facing Senate Democrats, @benjaminpenn.bsky.social reports news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Justice Clarence Thomas said he started teaching a law course again this fall semester at Catholic University, @justinfwise.bsky.social reports. “I missed it over the last few years,” he said. “It’s been a real joy.” news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Exclusive: Trump administration’s criminal probes of children’s hospitals over trans care are colliding with White House’s reorg to slash bureaucracy, leading to a disorderly rollout at DOJ that lawyers describe as anything but efficient. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

NEWS: Virginia's ousted US attorney, who resisted Letitia James indictment, is replaced today by Maggie Cleary, an inexperienced prosecutor who recently expressed a desire to end DOJ weaponization for Trump. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

“It suddenly feels a little bit adversarial, and it ought not feel like that between both court judges and the Supreme Court,” said Judge Pamela Harris of the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

New from me: There's no urgency for Wisconsin's Sen. Tammy Baldwin to make her position known on President Donald Trump’s appeals court pick to serve in her state. But it won't be an easy decision for the Midwest Democrat to make. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Scoop: Trump DOJ departs from protocols that prevented politicized civil rights hiring to restock a depleted division. At least two new hires were removed or suspended from prior prosecutor jobs while facing complaints. With @suzannemonyak.bsky.social: news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

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/...

Former federal judges are taking advantage of Constitution Day to speak out against threats against sitting judges, @jacqthomsen.bsky.social reports news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Bobcats and deer are also a common sighting around Judge Helena Barch-Kuchta’s chambers, which are tucked away in a quiet corner of Yosemite, @poritz.bsky.social reports news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/a...

Conservatives are divided on whether President Trump’s recent Seventh Circuit nominee Rebecca Taibleson is conservative enough to earn an appointment to the federal bench, @tianaheadley.bsky.social reports news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said whenever she hears a “lawyer-trained representative say we should criminalize free speech in some way, I think to myself, that law school has failed." news.bloomberglaw.com/new-york-bri...

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“All of us could use reminders about not letting details slip to our spouses or our parents, or carelessly letting notes or things like that sit around,” Justice Amy Coney Barrett said. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

A rotating group of four assistant US attorneys, a supervisor, and paralegal have had to be on call starting at 5:30 p.m. every night for a 24-hour shift to handle the federal arrest surge, @suzannemonyak.bsky.social and @benjaminpenn.bsky.social report news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

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/...

A Minnesota man was charged with threatening to kill a federal judge after allegedly printing copies of a manifesto titled, “How to Kill a Federal Judge” at a public library.

Diversity didn’t seem to be a primary concern for President Trump in filling judicial vacancies during his first term, and he hasn’t indicated that would change, @tianaheadley.bsky.social reports news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Justice Amy Coney Barrett “thought hard” when the White House reached out to her to interview for a seat on the US Supreme Court, the justice wrote her new memoir, @bloomberglaw.com reports news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Second heckler at Justice Amy Coney Barrett's book event was escorted out after yelling, “Stop expanding federal power. Stop expanding the executive. John Jay would be ashamed," @justinfwise.bsky.social reports news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Amy Coney Barrett begins her book tour as the latest US Supreme Court justice to earn a reported $2 million+ for a memoir. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

"Unhelpful and unnecessary" The US judge who blocked the Trump administration from cutting off billions in federal funding from Harvard included some strong words for Justice Neil Gorsuch -- a sign of mounting frustrations running up and down the judiciary www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

🚨EXCLUSIVE: Federal judges tell NBC News the Supreme Court has got to do a better job of explaining emergency rulings, with frequent decisions in favor of Trump at least appearing to validate harsh criticism of the judiciary at a time of rising threats: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

Overnight scoop: the last man standing in DOJ’s sanctuary cities working group quit on Friday. The island senior career officials were exiled to - as apparent punishment - if they wanted to keep working under Trump is now deserted. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

The last member of the Trump Justice Department’s so-called sanctuary cities working group has departed, marking the potential end of a second term plan to demote and reassign senior career officials, @benjaminpenn.bsky.social reports news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

From last night ... a new Trump emergency application at Scotus. It's now docketed as 25a227.

Exclusive from @suzannemonyak.bsky.social & me on continued upheaval at DOJ civil rights division: - 2 probationary attorneys fired - Others forced into sections focused on voter fraud & anti-DEI probes - AAG Dhillon hires "new class of civil rights warriors" news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Exclusive: Another Trump US attorney--and 1st one on the border--receives an "acting" appointment to sidestep judicial approval. New Mexico's Ryan Ellison gets extended as his term was about to expire, following public confrontations w/ judges on deportations news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

A small-office prosecutor without supervisory experience has leapfrogged into a Trump nomination to lead 600 Justice Department criminal attorneys in Washington—thanks in part to his ties to the White House chief of staff, @benjaminpenn.bsky.social reports news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Alleged sandwich thrower Sean Charles Dunn is an international affairs specialist with the Office of International Affairs within the department’s criminal division, @suzannemonyak.bsky.social reports. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

"overwhelmed" "balancing competing litigation obligations" "substantial current workload" In interviews and public court filings, DOJ lawyers describe strain since Trump took office (gift link) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Legal team for former PR governor tried to clarify the record from our 'damaging' coverage, claiming no political intrusion in her plea deal. DOJ replies by telling judge her lawyers 'completely fabricated' their account of Main Justice meeting. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

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

Also in this report: Trump’s first Black judicial nominee of his second term, Bill Lewis, who’s currently a justice on the Alabama Supreme Court

“You caught me,” Mizelle said in a statement. “I associate with smart, hardworking professionals that have achieved incredible success in their careers. Perhaps I should socialize more with people who have spent their entire career as a beat reporter for the 46th most viewed publication in the US.”

The gap between how Democrats and Republicans view the US Supreme Court is diverging more than ever, according to a new Gallup poll. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Main Justice is pushing back on LA acting US Atty Essayli for justifying dismissal of Trump donor/Fatburger exec fraud case by citing criminal division policy memo on white collar priorities. DOJ official distances crim div from embattled Essayli's action. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

A judge who heard a challenge to the Trump administration’s federal funding freeze received over 400 threatening voicemails and six credible death threats, which “shook his faith” in the judicial system, @suzannemonyak.bsky.social reports news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Justice Brett Kavanaugh defended the absence of explanations in recent Supreme Court decisions that have allowed the Trump administration to enact its policies, @jacqthomsen.bsky.social reports news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

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NEWS: Justice Dept just dismissed major fraud case against Trump donor & Fat Brands founder (Fatburger, Johnny Rockets) Andrew Wiederhorn. The filing from embattled US Attorney Bill Essayli comes an hour before his new DOJ appointment to stay on takes effect. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Deep dive w/@maiaspoto.bsky.social: LA US Attorney Bill Essayli has overruled counsel of sr prosecutors, instructed staff to disregard DOJ policies & forced lawyers to redo indictment failures before new grand juries - once yelling "F*&^ the Justice Manual." news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Los Angeles's US attorney Bill Essayli’s pattern of yelling at career attorneys to pursue MAGA-aligned cases despite their warnings of insufficient evidence has contributed to an exodus, @benjaminpenn.bsky.social and @maiaspoto.bsky.social report news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Senators in one of two remaining states represented by a Republican and a Democrat will soon find out how much weight their bipartisan judicial recommendations carry in the Trump White House, @tianaheadley.bsky.social reports news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

President Donald Trump’s administration sidestepped tradition this week and criticized judges who sought to bypass his ally as the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey, @justinfwise.bsky.social and @davidvoreacos.bsky.social report www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Tensions between the Trump administration and the judiciary flared on Tuesday when Attorney General Pam Bondi removed a US attorney for New Jersey that had been named by federal judges to replace the president’s choice. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Excited for the @thebaltimorebanner.com expanding into Montgomery County this fall.

Jennifer Mascott isn’t admitted to practice law in the state of Delaware, according to the Office of the Delaware Supreme Court. Property records show she owns a property near a beach there, @tianaheadley.bsky.social reports news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...