Josh Gerstein
Sr. Legal Affairs Reporter, @POLITICO
Priors: ABC White House & China correspondent, CNN, NY Sun 🇺🇸🇦🇺josh@joshgerstein.com. DM for signal
- JUST IN: DOJ suggests in Abrego Garcia that there are "ongoing diplomatic negotiations," hence need for secrecy around some court filings in case. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- 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...
- 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/...
- Circuit seems to have done an impressive job keeping the event off socials. But not perfect! www.facebook.com/share/r/19d4... Also kudos to the circuits that do allow press coverage. You know who you are.
