Josh Gerstein
Sr. Legal Affairs Reporter, @POLITICO
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- NEW: Chief Justice John Roberts called the rule of law 'endangered' and lamented 'ad hominem' attacks on justices, but his remarks Monday lacked the dire tone his juniormost colleague, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, struck earlier this month www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
- FLASH: Federal judge blocks RIFs/Trump administration reorganization plans for 20 federal agencies. SF-based Judge Susan Illston (Clinton) says they appear to exceed executive branch authority to implement without Congressional approval. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- BREAKING: Immigrant rights advocates ask federal judge in Boston to halt reportedly imminent deportation flight taking 3rd-country nationals to Libya. "Libya has a long record of extreme human rights violations," the attorneys say. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
- SCOTUSWATCH: The 5th Circuit is holding its annual conference In Miramar, FL through today. (FL hasn't been in the 5th Circuit since 1981. WWCGS? What would Chuck Grassley say?) And Justice Samuel Alito spoke to the closed-press event. More in FL Playbook: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
- JUST IN: Trump admin again asks 9th Circuit to rein in District Court order allowing some refugees in process on 1/20/25 to enter US. But numbers critical to motion and it at one point refers to 120,000 refugees being allowed in but may mean 12,000. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
- Reposted by Josh GersteinA threat or protected speech? District Attorney General Glenn Funk testified late Tuesday that he took precautions following what a police detective called a "vaguely worded" online threat by a Texas neo-Nazi. www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
- JUST IN: Judge rejects Trump admin's bid to move detained Georgetown scholar Badar Khan Suri's habeas from VA to Louisiana, where he's jailed. Patricia Giles (Biden) sets 5/14 hearing on bail & returning him to VA. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
