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Citizens for Ethics: “A federal judge granted a preliminary injunction today requiring Trump administration officials to follow the Presidential Records Act and preserve text messages, including Signal messages, pertaining to its work, in response to a motion filed and argued by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington on behalf of the Freedom of the …
The New York Times: “The Trump administration announced on Monday the creation of a $1.8 billion fund to compensate those who claim they were targeted by the Biden Justice Department and Democrats, forging a pipeline to funnel taxpayer money to President Trump’s allies. The highly unusual “anti-weaponization” fund — denounced by critics as a political …
Politico: “Under President Donald Trump, ICE is locking up immigrants at an unprecedented scale, holding tens of thousands of people — many with no criminal records and deep roots in the U.S. — in detention facilities to await the outcome of deportation proceedings. POLITICO is tracking the surge in litigation triggered by the administration’s novel …
Pew Research: “…What kinds of cases have been overturned most frequently? The Supreme Court has overturned precedents in a variety of legal areas. For example, the decision that overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022 broadly concerned civil rights. That’s according to the Supreme Court Database, which categorizes cases by issue area. Overall, 14% of Supreme Court …
Follow up to Trump’s Battle With Big Law Firms Heads Into 2026: What to Know – See Also Reuters The Daily Docket: “The Trump administration will ask the D.C. Circuit to revive executive orders targeting four major law firms, setting up a high-stakes test of presidential power. What happened? Trial judges across the political spectrum …
LawSites: “The long-running copyright litigation between legal research giant Thomson Reuters and now-shuttered legal research startup ROSS Intelligence took another interesting turn this week, following the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ order that the parties file supplemental briefs addressing the impact of its recent ruling in American Society for Testing & Materials v. UpCodes, …
Press release: “…The report, “Acquittal by Removal: How Trump’s Mass Deportation Agenda Abandons Crime Victims and Allows Perpetrators to Avoid Justice,” finds that in its push to meet deportation quotas, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has deported victims, witnesses, and even criminal defendants before trials could be completed—derailing prosecutions and leaving serious crimes unresolved. As …
The Existentialist Republic – “Over sixteen years of federal financial disclosure forms, Chief Justice John Roberts mischaracterized more than twenty million dollars in household income from law firms appearing before the Supreme Court. He concealed his wife’s equity stake in her employer for three consecutive years. He failed to recuse from more than five hundred …
Reuters Daily Docket [subscription]: “The ABA is weighing a sweeping rollback of DEI-related accreditation rules for law schools amid federal pressure and state pushback. What’s happening? The ABA is moving to eliminate or scale back three diversity and non-discrimination standards in its law school accreditation rules. A key committee recommended scrapping the long-standing diversity requirement, …
Follow up to Banquet of Greed: Trump Ballroom Donors Feast on Federal Funds and Favors – Craven Corruption – Via Politico: “Senate Republicans want to fund Secret Service security upgrades related to President Donald Trump’s ballroom project as part of a nearly $72 billion package that would shovel cash to immigration enforcement agencies. The proposal …
ChatGPTis EatingtheWorld: “Total U.S. copyright suits v. AI companies hit 105. Elsevier and other book publishers, along with Scott Turow, have filed today a copyright suit against Mark Zuckerberg as well as Meta. The suit was filed in the Southern District of New York. The publishers allege copyright infringement in torrenting of datasets from shadow …
Notice News: “Yesterday’s ruling in Louisiana v. Callais is the biggest voting rights story in years — and it moved fast. The Court struck down Louisiana’s second majority-Black congressional district (AP Politics), effectively eviscerating Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and making it nearly impossible to challenge racially discriminatory maps (Common Dreams). Justice Kagan’s …
