Retired Justice Stephen Breyer said “it’s possible, of course,” that who occupies the White House plays a role in when justices opt to leave the US Supreme Court, in a podcast interview with @bloomberglaw.com's Matthew Schwartz youtu.be/6ve1iJydFeo?...

President Donald Trump announced he plans to nominate Anna St. John to a seat on the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Four Supreme Court justices reported a combined income of roughly $2.4 million from recently authored books, further demonstrating how lucrative the publishing world is for members of the court, @jordanonrecord.bsky.social and @justinfwise.bsky.social report 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/...

News: Under mounting Trump admin. pressure, DOJ inspector general starts sending GOP senators troves of interview transcripts on Crossfire Hurricane probe -- a first-of-its-kind production widely expected to chill future cooperators and whistleblowers news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

“That basically is saying that we, the Supreme Court, are OK with explicit racism from the government because of the way the president has changed the discourse in this country. And that’s shocking," Fordham's Jennifer Gordon tells @justinfwise.bsky.social 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/...

White House adviser Stephen Miller was the driving force behind the Justice Department’s recent memo authorizing states to institutionalize people with disabilities rather than fund community-based care, said people briefed on the situation.

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/...

One federal judge started a health blog, claiming that he’s biologically roughly a decade younger than he actually is, @jacqthomsen.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/...

Pretrial conference for Ninth Circuit Judge Ryan Nelson's battery case in Idaho Falls this morning and @bloomberglaw.com's Quinn Wilson is in the courtroom to get the latest

Federal courts are struggling to manage high caseloads of immigration habeas cases, months after the spike began, @suzannemonyak.bsky.social reports. “It was like getting hit in the back of the head with a baseball bat,” one chief judge said. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Judge Ross sent her former clerks revised apology letters Thursday, hours after a media report that she sent three-line letters that didn’t address her conduct as ordered by the judiciary, @suzannemonyak.bsky.social reports news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Congressional Democrats are largely staying silent as Republicans seek the ouster of a Georgia federal judge who a judicial panel found had sex in chambers within earshot of clerks and lied to judges about it, @oliviaalafriz.bsky.social and Maren Fagan report news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

“Thank you for your contributions to our court during your clerkship,” Judge Ross wrote. “I convey my deepest apology for not taking steps to ensure that it was a more positive experience. I wish you all the best in your future legal endeavors and in life.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/u...

Sen. Kennedy pressed a Trump appeals court nominee over his decision to sign a letter pledging not to hire law clerks from Columbia University over its handling of Israel-Hamas war protests. “I hope you won’t do something like that again,” he said. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

News -- President Trump will get a chance to appoint another member of the Fifth Circuit, as Judge Kurt Engelhardt, a Trump appointee, is set to take senior status news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Ninth Circuit Judge Ryan Nelson has been charged with misdemeanor battery and malicious injury to property, per court records. w/ @suzannemonyak.bsky.social news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority has embraced the concept of a “colorblind Constitution” in ending the use of race in college admissions, and now in reshaping how electoral maps are drawn, @jordanonrecord.bsky.social & @justinfwise.bsky.social report news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Rep. Andrew Clyde becomes the first lawmaker to announce steps toward impeaching Judge Ross. Also new: Sen. Blackburn calls for Ross' removal. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

At least two Republicans have raised doubts about acting AG Todd Blanche’s confirmation prospects after Trump announced plans to make him “permanent attorney general,” though he’s notching support among other GOP members. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) says his staff has “already put together a memo” on the facts involved in the misconduct findings against Judge Eleanor Ross and "everything’s on the table,” reports @suzannemonyak.bsky.social news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

I went long on a new form of Trump DOJ turmoil: Top Las Vegas prosecutor Sigal Chattah repeatedly bypassed Main Justice recusal orders, pushed cases for ex-clients & friends, targeted political foe, & much more. "It's charitable to call it chaos." news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

There is escalating heat on Chicago US Attorney Andrew Boutros, as critics call for his resignation over Trump-aligned moves. For our story exploring this dynamic, Boutros' office provided an extraordinary 6-page Q&A statement that reframed our questions. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

The Justice Department asked Eleanor Ross, the federal judge in Georgia who was reprimanded for misconduct, to recuse herself from its lawsuit seeking voter rolls, @jacqthomsen.bsky.social reports news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Justice Amy Coney Barrett's home was the target of a swatting attempt last night, Fairfax County police say. A caller falsely reported hearing "two or three gunshots" and arguing at her Virginia home. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

News: The judge reprimanded by the judiciary for having sex in chambers, in earshot of law clerks, is Judge Eleanor Ross of the Atlanta-based Northern District of Georgia, @bloomberglaw.com has confirmed. w/ @oliviaalafriz.bsky.social & @jacqthomsen.bsky.social news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

The private reprimand “illustrates why many ethics experts lack confidence in the judiciary’s handling of judicial misconduct cases,” Texas A&M's Susan Saab Fortney tells @jacqthomsen.bsky.social news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

A federal district judge engaged in an extramarital affair with a law enforcement officer in chambers, and in earshot of law clerks, a judicial conduct committee found, @suzannemonyak.bsky.social and @jacqthomsen.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/...

A Third Circuit panel scolded a federal judge for including “misguided and ill-conceived attempts at levity” in an opinion regarding a lawsuit over two children killed when a tractor-trailer collided with their mother’s disabled vehicle. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

President Trump's attacks on judges “have gotten more partisan, more personal, more threatening, and more purposefully misleading than ever before," Senior Judge Paul Friedman said, @suzannemonyak.bsky.social reports with @zoetillman.bsky.social news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

NEW: Donald Trump’s judicial nominees took a new tack in answering Democrats’ questions on the outcome of the 2020 election, drawing on Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s response to a similar query during her own confirmation vetting. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

New: DOJ has a long history of setting robust internal controls to ensure taxpayer $$ is responsibly & legally awarded to deserving victims. That’s all missing from the Trump IRS settlement $1.8B anti-weaponization fund. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Judge Richard Gergel asked Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson tonight whether lower courts are supposed to follow SCOTUS' often unreasoned emergency docket decisions over decades-old precedent. That's a "legitimate question," Jackson said. 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/...

“The friendships I made and the bonds were much, much deeper than, I think, I’m able to form now,” Clarence Thomas said Thursday. “I came of age on that court.” @suzannemonyak.bsky.social reports news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

DOJ sued DC in federal trial court, accusing legal disciplinary authorities of “punishing” Jeffrey Clark, then an assistant attorney general, for drafting an unsent letter about potential election fraud in Georgia, Ellen Gilmer reports news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

“Apparently the rule that federal courts should not make rulings that lead to last minute changes in election rules applies to every federal court but the Supreme Court itself,” UCLA's @rickhasen.bsky.social tells @justinfwise.bsky.social and @jordanonrecord.bsky.social

Star litigator Neal Katyal raised eyebrows this week with a TED Talk revealing his use of an AI model he said helped predict questions from Supreme Court justices "almost verbatim." news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Where Neil Gorsuch chose to talk about his new children’s book shows how the court’s liberal-conservative divide can extend even to the justices’ publicity tours, @justinfwise.bsky.social reports news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

“The purpose, I think, is to diminish or destroy that trust in the judiciary, and in the rule of law, and thereby to pressure judges to rule for the administration, which is undermining judicial independence,” Judge Bates said, reports @suzannemonyak.bsky.social news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Chief Justice John Roberts says Supreme Court arguments are going too long and are "maybe not as focused as usual." He suggested the court may look at reining them in a bit over the summer break. (via @suzannemonyak.bsky.social) news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

New: DOJ tactic of paying lawyers to stick around is spreading, as DC US Attorney Jeanine Pirro is offering ~$5k-$7k ad hoc bonuses to preferred prosecutors. What Pirro calls "performance rewards" others see as an attempt to prevent further attrition. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Chief Justice John Roberts lamented that Supreme Court arguments are dragging on and previewed possible changes to the format for questioning attorneys, @suzannemonyak.bsky.social and @jordanonrecord.bsky.social report news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

NEW: DOJ leaders are locked in turf battle over the future of Trump white collar probes, as Blanche ally tries to expand scope of White House-launched fraud division. Deadline for final recommendation is tomorrow. Exclusive on the negotiations: news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Acknowledging that it wasn’t his best time, Justice Brett Kavanaugh told Fawn Johnson of @bloomberglaw.com: “I didn’t train as much. It turns out training makes a difference.” Other judges included DC Circuit's Florence Pan (25:39), Patricia Millett (36:58) news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Tensions are starting to boil over at the US Supreme Court, @justinfwise.bsky.social, @jordanonrecord.bsky.social and @gregstohr.bsky.social report news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

From Alexis Waiss and @suzannemonyak.bsky.social