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

Story updated with exclusive details: DOJ Civil Division to start paying all current attorneys retention incentives in every paycheck thru Thanksgiving, as experienced lawyers keep fleeing offices critical to defending Trump agenda in court. Biweekly bonuses of ~ $60-$220⬇️⬇️

JUST IN: The Justice Department is taking an apparently new tack to overcome woes in attracting qualified lawyers: Offering $25,000 signing bonuses. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Former clerks of the late Justice Antonin Scalia argued in a whopping 52% of all cases the Supreme Court heard this year. No other justices' chambers came close to putting up those kind of numbers. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Former Scalia clerks argued in nearly three dozen cases—or 52% of the docket— before the Supreme Court this term, far more than clerks from any other chambers, @jordanonrecord.bsky.social and @justinfwise.bsky.social report news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

New: After multiple court defeats blocking its access to trans youth health records from hospitals, Trump DOJ is going venue shopping by asking a Texas judge to enforce subpoena of a Rhode Island hospital. w/ @jacqthomsen.bsky.social news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

The US Attorney prosecuting James Comey for the sea shells post, Ellis Boyle, has been imitating Trump's mannerisms over his nine months in office. It wasn't until he secured the indictment this week that he surely caught Trump's attention. My latest: news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

SCOOP: DOJ prosecutors in Virginia are pursuing separate charges against James Comey for allegedly leaking classified info. Blanche's DOJ, not satisfied with just the '86 47' indictment, in recent weeks revived nat sec probe that stalled out last year. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

The Supreme Court for the third time in 13 years under Chief Justice Roberts narrowed a key Voting Rights Act provision, leaving little remaining of the civil rights movement’s crowning achievement, @jordanackermi.bsky.social and @justinfwise.bsky.social report 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/...

All six conservative Supreme Court justices were invited to President Donald Trump’s state dinner with King Charles III, including those whom he’s criticized since the court invalidated most of his global tariffs news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

All six conservative Supreme Court justices were invited to President Donald Trump’s state dinner with King Charles III, including those whom he’s criticized since the court invalidated most of his global tariffs news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

DOJ officials accused a nonprofit challenging Trump’s White House ballroom project of suffering from “Trump Derangement Syndrome” in a court filing containing multiple randomly capitalized words and exclamation points, @suzannemonyak.bsky.social reports news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

“Put simply, your lawsuit puts the lives of the President, his family, and his staff at grave risk," a Justice Department official wrote Sunday, @suzannemonyak.bsky.social reports news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

This, from @benjaminpenn.bsky.social and @ccastronuovo.bsky.social is a really good explanation of the mechanics in the Justice Department's criminal complaint against the SPLC, and some choices prosecutors made that a judge may find questionable. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

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Judge Stuart Kyle Duncan said he is “sure” the US Supreme Court will take up the opinion he wrote this week allowing Texas to enforce a law requiring the Ten Commandments be displayed in public school classrooms, @oliviaalafriz.bsky.social reports news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Judge Stuart Kyle Duncan said he is “sure” the US Supreme Court will take up the opinion he wrote this week allowing Texas to enforce a law requiring the Ten Commandments be displayed in public school classrooms, @oliviaalafriz.bsky.social reports news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

President Trump disparaged Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson as the “new, Low IQ person” while renewing attacks against the US Supreme Court that have grown more frequent since it struck down the bulk of his global tariffs, @justinfwise.bsky.social reports news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

New: Trump DOJ brings in fresh blood to run grand conspiracy probe of Brennan & co. - former Trump lawyer/Fox News conspiracy theorist Joe diGenova. At 81, the Reagan-era US attorney who called for execution of Chris Krebs, will be counsel to AG Blanche. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Recommend Peter Canellos' new book, Revenge for the Sixties: Sam Alito and the Triumph of the Conservative Legal Movement. Among other things, I learned Justice Alito loves animals and dislikes the Sopranos

NOW: Justice Sonia Sotomayor issues rare public apology following her equally rare public swipe last week at Brett Kavanaugh. "I regret my hurtful comments," Sotomayor says in a statement released by the court, adding that she's apologized to Kavanaugh. news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and...

Really enjoying @mollycrabapple.bsky.social 's Here Where We Live Is Our Country. Both all the serious stuff and your line, "Przytyk, a town too poor to even afford vowels" that manages to elicit a laugh in a paragraph about a pogrom

Sotomayor, who took an unusually public and pointed swipe at Kavanaugh, once again showed this week she’s more apt to vent her own frustrations publicly at events than her typically tight-lipped colleagues, @jordanonrecord.bsky.social reports news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...