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Reuters: US JUDGE SAYS CFPB MASS FIRINGS WILL NOT GO FORWARD PENDING HEARING INTO TRUMP ADMINISTRATION'S POTENTIAL VIOLATION OF COURT ORDERS

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I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

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Something for SCOTUS to ponder while Humphrey's Executor is on the shadow docket

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A coalition of labor unions and left-leaning groups announced an initiative aimed at providing free legal advice to federal employees who lose their jobs or believe their legal rights were violated amid the Trump administration's purge of the government workforce reut.rs/42NyqN4

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The IRS is making plans to rescind the tax-exempt status of Harvard University, CNN reports

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Trump administration showed "willful disregard" to the court when it sent alleged gang members to El Salvador in defiance of the judge's order that the planes turn around.

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Two prior solicitors general — Donald Verrilli and Paul Clement — have been instrumental in challenging Trump’s orders in court. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

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If you thought Musk was weird before, just wait til you read this story.

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Judge blocks most of Trump executive order against law firm Susman Godfrey www.reuters.com/world/us/law...

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BREAKING: Judge Loren AliKhan is issuing the temporary restraining order Susman Godfrey sought blocking the Trump admin from enforcing parts 1, 3, & 5 of the executive order Trump signed last week targeting the law firm. AliKhan is the 4th judge to grant a TRO against Trump's law-firm EOs.

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Despite a court order, the White House bars a reporter and photographer from the @AP from an Oval Office news conference with Trump and his counterpart from El Salvador while the administration appeals the decision. @dbauder.bsky.social apnews.com/article/trum...

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BREAKING: On Friday, the federal government issued new demands of Harvard University. The university's lawyers just responded: back off.

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Boris Epshteyn—indicted Trump election conspirator and not actually a member of the government—is personally negotiating Trump's Big Law shakedowns, per WSJ

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Notable that Susman is represented by Munger Tolles — the firm where J.D. Vance’s wife, Usha Vance, was a partner until he ran for the vice-presidency

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If you feel like being inspired by a big law firm, here's the opening to Sussman Godfrey's lawsuit against Trump and his executive order targeting the firm. It still is amazing other firms caved quickly to Trump's mob-like and unconstitutional shakedown. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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This is insane.

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It's small potatoes in the scheme of things but not sure it makes any sense for legal reporters to ask lawyers at firms that have caved to Trump for any expert analysis on litigation involving the administration.

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The fear among academics and lawyers now talking on the record on just about any topic that involves the federal government or the White House is really extraordinary and worrisome, and getting worse, it seems to me, every week. Dissent by an establishment figures becoming verboten in the US

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#BREAKING: Supreme Court holds that Trump administration must attempt to “facilitate” the return of Wilmer Armando Abrego García from El Salvador, but remands to the district court to sort out exactly what the administration can and must do going forward: s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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#BREAKING Whether you support him or not, President Trump’s systematic retaliation against law firms like Susman Godfrey for representing clients or causes he opposes is more than an attack on those firms — it’s an attack on the rule of law itself.

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Top Pro Bono Leader Resigns from Paul Weiss, a Firm Hit in Trump’s Crackdown on Big Law www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/b...

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The Justice Department just asked the Supreme Court to halt the reinstatement of Gwynne Wilcox to the NLRB & Cathy Harris to the MSPB. If SCOTUS agrees it will effectively overturn Humphrey's Executor and hugely expand Trump's control over the executive branch. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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Former top legal executives at large companies including Microsoft, Intel and Eli Lilly submitted a legal brief on April 8 accusing US President Donald Trump of undermining the rule of law and threatening American businesses with his executive orders targeting law firms reut.rs/4cqj0Bt 1/6

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BREAKING: Federal judge in Texas temporarily blocks Alien Enemies Act-based removals "from the El Valle Detention Center" in Texas. Judge Fernando Rodriguez, Jr., a Trump appointee, issued the order, as to 3 specific individuals & anyone else at the facility, shortly after being assigned the case.

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I happen to know that some powerful media orgs were unhappy that AP filed suit; they thought the conflict with the White House would blow over on its own and that AP risked making bad law. The AP's leadership deserves a lot of credit for having proceeded as it did. apnews.com/article/trum...

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Student journalists are asking that their names be withheld or removed from articles out of fear that they could be targeted by Trump administration. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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BREAKING: Judge McFadden has granted the AP’s injunction against the White House’s ban on access to the Oval Office and East Room.

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#BREAKING: 5-4 Court, with Barrett joining the three Dem. appointees in dissent vacates Chief Judge Boasberg’s temporary restraining orders in the Alien Enemy Act cases. Judicial review must be available, Court holds, but has to come through habeas petitions: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

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Acting by himself, Chief Justice Roberts has issued an "administrative" stay in Abrego Garcia, temporarily pausing Judge Xinis's order (which had required the U.S. to return Abrego Garcia by this evening). In a nutshell, it's a temporary pause to buy the full Court more time to rule on the dispute.

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Maine sues over USDA pause on funds due to support for transgender athletes www.reuters.com/legal/maine-...

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Judge Harvie Wilkinson, a Reagan nominee to the 4th Circuit who for years has been one of the most reliable feeders of clerks to SCOTUS conservatives, calls out the absolute craziness of what the Trump administration wants here.

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BREAKING: The federal appeals court in DC has unfired members of the NLRB and MSPB that Donald Trump has been trying to remove despite laws protecting them from removal without cause. Panel was divided 7-4. Supreme Court could be next. Details TK www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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In the shortest amicus brief I've ever seen, Dean Chemerinsky & Harvard Profs @tribelaw.bsky.social & Minow say there's "no question ... federal courts have jurisdiction over US officials who removed an individual from the US & arranged for [him] to be held in a foreign prison."

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JUST IN: Saying the Trump administration’s “grievous error” “shocks the conscience,” a federal judge has rejected their call to lift her order demanding the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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The Mets are on BlueSky! Great win tonight! #lgm

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If you are an NC resident and voted in November, please check if your name or the names of any family areone of the 60K votes being challenged. If so, confirm ASAP with your Board of Elections. You only have two weeks. The website to check linked in the reply. www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

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A great win for press freedom! RCFP is proud to have helped connect @mississippitoday.org to attorneys at @gibsondunn.bsky.social, who provided free legal support to the newsroom during the lengthy case.

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Some very big names on here.

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Bombshell in North Carolina: the state's GOP-dominated Court of Appeals just sided with the GOP candidate in last year's supreme court race. Their decision would toss roughly 60,000 ballots (!) that have been counted, & likely hand the election to GOP instead of incumbent Dem Justice who won it.

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A group of 346 former federal and state judges have filed a proposed amicus brief in Perkins Coie's challenge to the Trump EO targeting it. The order "undermines the constitutional role of the courts as independent forums for adjudicating disputes." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Fox News will not report this. The Trump admin will not acknowledge this. But this is truly remarkable news.

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Ridiculed for imposing trade tariffs on frozen islands largely inhabited by penguins, Donald Trump's formula for calculating those levies has a serious side: it is also hitting some of the world's poorest nations hardest reut.rs/41ZsaSa

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JUST IN: 'Fair likelihood' Trump administration violated court order not to deport Venezuelans, judge says reut.rs/4lfrM9A

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The Knight Institute (@knightcolumbia.org) joined a cross-ideological amicus brief led by the @aclu.org, in arguing that President Trump's executive order targeting Perkins Coie LLP is unconstitutional. knightcolumbia.org/cases/perkin...

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