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Seth Stern

@sethstern.bsky.social

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Bloomberg Law editor; author of Speaking Yiddish to Chickens and co-author of Justice Brennan: Liberal Champion; justices sketch by Bill Hennessy

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Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 3h

Yes, she is excellent

Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 13h

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said, Megan Crepeau and @benjaminpenn.bsky.social report

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Grand Jury Declines to Indict Two Chicago-Area ICE Protesters

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said.

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Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 4d

How such an active summer affects the new term is anyone’s guess, Justin Wise reports. But it raises questions about whether the pace of orders will compound any present tensions, @justinfwise.bsky.social reports

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Trump Cases Upend Supreme Court Summer as New Term Looms

As a young lawyer working in the Reagan administration, John Roberts once quipped that only Supreme Court Justices and schoolchildren are “expected to and do take the entire summer off.”

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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 5d

More turmoil in the US attorney's office that brought the Comey indictment at Trump's explicit demand. Two longtime prosecutors who had risen to leadership positions in the Virginia office were fired in recent days, Salvador Rizzo reports. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Firings and resignations roil U.S. attorney’s office prosecuting Comey

Four people have been forced out of leadership roles in the U.S. attorney’s Eastern District of Virginia office that secured an indictment against James B. Comey.

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Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 5d

The three liberal justices are diverging more when it comes to the emergency docket, reflecting differing views on when—and how aggressively—to critique their conservative colleagues’ approach, @justinfwise.bsky.social reports

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Liberal Justices Show Competing Styles in Shadow Docket Dissents

The Supreme Court’s three liberal justices, who last term tended to vote in near lockstep on closely divided cases that were argued, are diverging more when it comes to the emergency docket, reflectin...

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Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 6d

NEW: The federal judiciary can continue “paid operations” through Oct. 17 if the government shutdown continues, two weeks longer than initially projected, a top judiciary official said Wednesday, @suzannemonyak.bsky.social reports

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Federal Judiciary Can Pay Employees for Two Weeks in Shutdown

The federal judiciary can continue “paid operations” through Oct. 17 if the government shutdown continues, two weeks longer than initially projected, a top judiciary official said Wednesday.

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Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 7d

The recent uptick in threats has heightened concerns around well-being and prompted new efforts to address it, including roundtables and support networks for federal judges, steps former judges say are long overdue, @suzannemonyak.bsky.social reports

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Judges’ Mental Well-Being Gets New Attention as Threats Rise

After a day of sentencing criminal defendants, Judge Lee Yeakel made a ritual of replaying each hearing in his head and worry whether he’d gotten them right.

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Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 7d

Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 7d

“I fear President Trump believes the American people are so divided that today they will not stand up, fight for, and defend our most precious constitutional values so long as they are lulled into thinking their own personal interests are not affected.”

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Reagan Judge Blasts Trump While Calling for Defense of Rights

A senior federal judge in Boston said in an opinion that President Donald Trump thinks the American people won’t stand up for their constitutional rights, while suggesting the public should do so.

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Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 8d

Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 8d

Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 8d

Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 8d

Anthony Kennedy, a Reagan appointee who served 30 years as a justice before retiring in 2018, offers no bombshells about his tenure as the Supreme Court’s pivotal swing justice. But Kennedy does include a few colorful anecdotes in his new memoir

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Justice Kennedy Reveals Jokes, Surprise Encounters in New Memoir

In February 2016, Justice Antonin Scalia visited Anthony Kennedy’s Supreme Court chambers to apologize for his sharp dissent in a landmark same-sex marriage ruling.

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Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 9d

The loss of so many senior managers, many of whom have spent their entire careers rising through the department’s ranks, could take generations to rebuild. The Justice Department is simultaneously hemorrhaging many more trial attorneys and other career employees, @suzannemonyak.bsky.social reports

Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 9d

Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 9d

Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 9d

At least a third of senior career leaders have left the Justice Department since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term, taking with them centuries of combined expertise, according to a Bloomberg Law analysis by @suzannemonyak.bsky.social

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Justice Department Loses a Third of Career Leaders Under Trump

At least a third of senior career leaders have left the Justice Department since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term, taking with them centuries of combined expertise, according to a Blo...

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Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 12d

President Trump’s replacement of a Virginia US attorney with an inexperienced loyalist underscores the lose-lose situation facing Senate Democrats, @benjaminpenn.bsky.social reports
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US Attorney Ouster Forces Senate Democrats into No-Win Situation

President Donald Trump’s politically motivated replacement of a Virginia US attorney with an inexperienced loyalist underscores the lose-lose situation facing Senate Democrats wishing to hold sway ove...

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Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 12d

Justice Clarence Thomas said he started teaching a law course again this fall semester at Catholic University, @justinfwise.bsky.social reports. “I missed it over the last few years,” he said. “It’s been a real joy.”

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Barrett Says Recusal Explanations Carry Potential Personal Costs

US Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett said her reasons for not explaining recusals include the potential of personal and other costs that doing so might trigger.

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Ben Penn @benjaminpenn.bsky.social · 15d

Exclusive: Trump administration’s criminal probes of children’s hospitals over trans care are colliding with White House’s reorg to slash bureaucracy, leading to a disorderly rollout at DOJ that lawyers describe as anything but efficient. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

DOJ Rethinks Reorganization Tied to Gender-Affirming Care Probes

The Justice Department’s civil division is retaining criminal authority on healthcare statutes being used to probe children’s hospitals on gender-affirming care, backtracking from an April plan to tra...

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Ben Penn @benjaminpenn.bsky.social · 17d

NEWS: Virginia's ousted US attorney, who resisted Letitia James indictment, is replaced today by Maggie Cleary, an inexperienced prosecutor who recently expressed a desire to end DOJ weaponization for Trump. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 17d

“It suddenly feels a little bit adversarial, and it ought
not feel like that between both court judges and the Supreme
Court,” said Judge Pamela Harris of the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
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Fourth Circuit Judge Says Gorsuch Call Out ‘Really Unfortunate’

A US appeals court judge called it “really unfortunate” for Justice Neil Gorsuch to admonish jurists not to “defy” orders, saying it added to a feeling that the Supreme Court and lower courts are adve...

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Tiana Headley @tianaheadley.bsky.social · 19d

New from me: There's no urgency for Wisconsin's Sen. Tammy Baldwin to make her position known on President Donald Trump’s appeals court pick to serve in her state.

But it won't be an easy decision for the Midwest Democrat to make.
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Senator Baldwin Faces Dilemma on Homestate Circuit Nominee

Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) is reserving her judgment on President Donald Trump’s appeals court pick to serve in her state.

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Ben Penn @benjaminpenn.bsky.social · 20d

Scoop: Trump DOJ departs from protocols that prevented politicized civil rights hiring to restock a depleted division. At least two new hires were removed or suspended from prior prosecutor jobs while facing complaints. With @suzannemonyak.bsky.social:
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Trump DOJ Said to Unwind Apolitical Civil Rights Career Hiring

The Justice Department is consolidating civil rights attorney hiring authority with a handful of Trump-aligned supervisors, departing from practices that were designed to avoid politicization, accordi...

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Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 20d

EXCLUSIVE: The Justice Department is consolidating civil rights attorney hiring authority with a handful of supervisors, departing from practices that were designed to avoid politicization, @benjaminpenn.bsky.social and @suzannemonyak.bsky.social report

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Trump DOJ Said to Unwind Apolitical Civil Rights Career Hiring

The Justice Department is consolidating civil rights attorney hiring authority with a handful of Trump-aligned supervisors, departing from practices that were designed to avoid politicization, accordi...

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