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As federal judges endure a rise in threats, CBS News has learned that some jurists have faced strange, unnerving incidents in which an unknown person orders a pizza to their home address in an apparent attempt to menace them.

San Francisco district judge says Congress did not authorize large-scale staffing cuts and restructuring of agencies

“Ozturk is free to return to her home in Massachusetts ... because, frankly, I don’t find that she poses any risk of flight,” the judge ruled.

Lower courts prevented the administration from immediately ending a Biden-era program that granted temporary status to people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela.

The Trump administration secured a key victory in federal court this week as a judge allowed Elon Musk and DOGE to continue firing workers and closing down field offices at the Social Security Administration (SSA).

Move comes after US president withdraws nomination of Ed Martin, GOP loyalist who supported January 6 pardons

The announcement, which comes six months after the final votes were cast, ends the final unresolved contest from the 2024 election.

Chief Justice John Roberts stressed the importance of judicial independence during public remarks Wednesday, noting that the judiciary’s role as a co-equal branch of government is central to the nation’s political system.

The US Supreme Court allowed President Donald Trump to enforce his ban on transgender troops serving in the military while challenges to the policy make their way through the courts.

The president and those around him just had to brag — and Howell turned their own words against them.

US district judge Beryl Howell says order violates first, fifth and sixth amendments and permanently blocks it

The broadcaster, a target of president’s sweeping cuts to US media agencies, could be back on air as soon as next week

A Donald Trump-appointed federal judge in Texas ruled that the president unlawfully invoked the Alien Enemies Act and blocked the administration from quickly deporting some alleged members of a Venezuelan gang.

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Wilkie Farr rolls over à la Skadden, with no EO issued.

Trump's lawyers are petitioning the Court to restrict the Temporary Restraining Orders (TROs) imposed by the lower courts to the named plaintiffs only, which they frame as a "modest" request. This is absurd. The subject of the TRO is a policy change, and it's the policy itself that's likely illegal. TROs are supposed to preserve the status quo while litigation proceeds. Grandfathering a handful of litigants in while letting the change go through in no way preserves the status quo. Striking down the power of lower courts to issue so-called "universal injunctions" would likely be an Equal Protection violation, or it would at least flood the lower courts with tens of thousands of plaintiffs individually filing cases to get the same relief.

From a few days back, but I'm surprised this didn't hit harder on the news. Perkins Coie was the law firm contracted to do oppo research on Trump during his 2016 campaign, which sourced the infamous Steele Dossier from FusionGPS. The EO strips the firm of all its contracts, directs EEOC to investigate their (past!) DEI initiatives and hiring, forces all contractors to inform the government if they do any business with Perkins Coie (even as part of other contracts), blacklists every employee from ever being hired by the government, strips them of their security clearances, prohibits Federal employees from interacting with anyone from Perkins on official business, and even bans employees from setting foot in any Federal building! It also threatens other large law firms.

https://boiefiling.fincen.gov/

Useful for keeping track of the numerous lawsuits against the T Admin.

Public records of arrests are essential tools for individuals seeking information about past arrests, legal proceedings, or other criminal activities in the United States. These records are maintained by various government agencies and are accessible to the public under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). In this article, we will explore what arrest records are, how to access them, and the legal considerations to keep in mind. By the end, you'll have a comprehensive understanding of how to navigate the process efficiently.

A helpful infographic design

The Federalist Society’s National Lawyers Convention got wild yesterday. As wild as a gathering of right-wing lawyers can get, anyway. Actually, I guess the wildest a gathering of right-wing lawyers can get was January 6, so this was just slightly less than the wildest a gathering of right-wing lawyers can get.