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"Our main principle will be personal liberties and freedom, and if you don't agree with me you're fired."

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This would really be the moment for some BigLaw gestures of solidarity with Covington & Burling, no? If a vengeful president can strip security clearances from any lawyer he sees as assisting the opposition, can any national security lawyers afford to remain outside his orbit?

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Plaintiffs’ lawyers are not a sympathetic constituency. I get that. But the policy goal of the widespread attack on contingency fees is to ensure that the wealthy and powerful have access to a higher caliber of legal talent than the poor and powerless. It’s an attack on the rule of law. Period.

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JUDGE COLLEEN KOLLAR-KOTELLY: Is there an administrator of DOGE at the present time? GOVERNMENT COUNSEL: I don’t know the answer to that

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A federal judge is set to consider a request by the Associated Press to restore full access for the news agency's journalists after President Donald Trump's administration barred them for continuing to refer to the Gulf of Mexico in coverage reut.rs/3ERxXju

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As we went about our regular lives this weekend amid the cascading doom of headlines, I kept thinking about those last days before Covid shutdowns. You know really bad days are coming, just not how soon and how bad.

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Glad to see this law suit from @apnews.com. If the First Amendment means anything, it means the President doesn't get to dictate how news organizations describe the world. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

Seems like a metaphor

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BREAKING: The Associated Press sues three Trump administration officials over access to presidential events, citing the First Amendment.

submitted 5 days ago • 360 comments

My latest newsletter post, using yesterday's DDC opinion on the Trump mass firings as a jumping-off point. Ordinary Judging in Extraordinary Times buttondown.com/sbagen/archi...

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RCFP, joined by 30+ news media organizations, is asking the White House to restore @apnews.com's pool participation. “Conditioning pool access to White House events on the editorial decisions of any news organization violates First Amendment principles.”

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U.S. District Judge Dale Ho won’t dismiss the indictment against Eric Adams just yet. Instead, he appoints PAUL CLEMENT as amicus to argue whether it’s proper to dismiss the indictment under Rule 48a, among other points. This is gonna be good! storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments

What’s that you say? Micro is the macro, I keep keep keep saying.

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SEC to drop lawsuit against Coinbase - www.reuters.com/technology/u...

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‘A humiliating month to be an American’ www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/o...

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JUST IN: A 9th Circuit appeals court panel has denied the Trump administration’s bid for emergency relief from the injunction blocking President Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order.

submitted 7 days ago • 28 comments

Are there any women in DOGE? Any?

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

And here we go—contempt motion filed after Trump admin fails to unfreeze USAID funds.

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Sonia Sotomayor frantically texting the Supreme Court group chat tonight: “Remember? I told you this would happen”

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

NY Gov. Kathy Hochul’s response: “We are a nation of laws, not ruled by a king. The MTA has initiated legal proceedings in the Southern District of New York to preserve this critical program. We’ll see you in court.”

submitted 7 days ago • 525 comments

😳😬

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In the world of privacy coverage, there has always been a central question of who is a greater threat to it: the government or corporate America. Now with DOGE, the two are merged into one: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/u...

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments

broke: Humphrey's Executor shouldn't be overturned woke: Myers was wrongly decided, the "Decision of 1789" isn't real, Tenure of Office Act was constitutional, there is no guaranteed presidential removal power at all, and executive office tenure is totally up to Congress under Necessary & Proper.

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Our team at Public Citizen Litigation Group is looking to expand, seeking a public interest litigator with 3+ years experience. Info at www.citizen.org/wp-content/u...

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

"At stake is far more than what to call a body of water. It is a battle over freedom of the press" forward.com/opinion/6973...

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U.S. District Court Judge Anthony Trenga today put on hold the firings of 11 CIA officers who were ordered to resign or face imminent termination by the Trump administration over their temporary jobs with the spy agency's DEI and accessibility programs. www.reuters.com/legal/us-jud...

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NEW: A federal judge has denied an effort brought by fourteen states to immediately block Elon Musk and DOGE from accessing data systems or making personnel decisions at seven federal agencies. via Daniel Barnes/NBC News

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US judge blocks Trump from removing Democrat from government workplace board reut.rs/4b8wYav

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There is one Tesla dealership location in Delaware, might be a good place to congregate for people in Philly and Delaware this weekend, just saying

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This is a really big deal. Trump's FTC and DOJ are keeping the Lina Khan/Jonathan Kanter framework for merger review in place. Wall Street was wrong in assuming it would be thrown out.

submitted 8 days ago • 23 comments

Fun fact about Judge Ho: As an ACLU lawyer during the first Trump administration, he challenged Trump's plan to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. He won the case at the U.S. Supreme Court, which found that Trump officials presented a misleading justification for adding the question.

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JUST IN: 900+ former federal prosecutors sign open letter warning that Justice's Public Integrity Section could be eliminated and saluting DOJ lawyers for response to "ethical challenges." Among those signing on: former special counsel Jack Smith. Doc: www.thejusticeconnection.org/wp-content/u...

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The top criminal prosecutor in the U.S. attorney's office in Washington quit today, citing pressure by the Trump administration to open what she viewed as an improper criminal probe of a federal contract. ca.news.yahoo.com/senior-u-pro...

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Judge Ho in NY issues order calling for lawyers for DOJ and Mayor Eric Adams explain why Justice is shelving charges. Link courtesy of CNBC, which predicts Ho will not rubber stamp dismissal of criminal case storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Senior US prosecutor Denise Cheung resigns, citing demands to open probe into Biden-era contract reut.rs/3EJxVdv

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Elon Musk's role in the Trump administration is as a White House employee and senior adviser to the president, and is not an employee of the Department of Government Efficiency and has no decision-making authority, the White House said in a court filing reut.rs/431Y6WO

submitted 9 days ago • 143 comments

The news keeps coming: Judge Randy Moss has denied emergency relief for a California student group seeking to block DOGE from accessing student loan data. The Obama-appointed judge says the group haven’t shown anyone is exposing data publicly or mishandling it in other ways.

submitted 9 days ago • 88 comments

Upon receiving the news that four of the City's Deputy Mayors have submitted their resignations, I sent the following letter to @nycmayor.

submitted 9 days ago • 240 comments

Cue the shareholder class actions

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This essay from Trevor Morrison and Rick Pildes prompted me to run down the answer to a question that’s been bugging me ever since J.D. Vance began posting about defying court orders: Are federal courts completely dependent on the U.S. Marshall’s service to enforce civil contempt orders?

submitted 10 days ago • 37 comments

Today (2/17/25) at 11am Judge Tanya S. Chutkan will conduct a TRO (temporary restraining order) hearing in a challenge to the constitutionality of DOGE under the Appointments Clause (Art II, §2, cl 2). I’ll try to live-blog here for @lawfare.bsky.social . You can also phone-in yourself. ... /1

submitted 9 days ago • 61 comments

State AGs are looking for federal workers who have just been illegally fired to stand as litigants in a new lawsuit trying to freeze further action by DOGE. DM me if that’s you and you’re interested and you’re live in one of the following states: NM, AZ, CA, CT, MD, MI, MN, NV, OR, WA, RI, or VT.

submitted 10 days ago • 47 comments

We wrote about how Musk is using X as a propaganda tool to demonize each of the agencies and programs that DOGE targets for cuts, providing air cover for his engineers' incursions — with the truth as collateral damage. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... w/ @drewharwell.com

submitted 11 days ago • 77 comments