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Appeals court set to review a key, harsh Trump administration deportation policy this spring

The First Circuit stayed a lower court ruling over third country removals, but also set quick merits review. Also: A mid-week legal round up. And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.
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SCOTUS takes up cases over efforts to end protections for immigrants from Syria, Haiti
DHS Sec. Noem's efforts to end temporary protected status designations for those from Syria and Haiti will remain blocked for now — an important win for…
 • Chris Geidner
DOJ is barely even a functional law firm at this point. Each day there is more proof.
Jeanine Pirro's effort to subpoena the Fed hit a wall. At the same time, DOJ was also forced to "clarify" arguments made in court about the Pentagon's…
 • Chris Geidner
A sharp warning in an ordinary news release: "President Trump’s Justice Department"
Attorney General Pam Bondi has made clear since day one her view that DOJ's lawyers are "his lawyers." On Thursday, DOJ went further, claiming it's…
 • Chris Geidner
Former military lawyers say use of JAG lawyers in Minnesota violates the Posse Comitatus Act
Although recent litigation has focused on troop deployments to American cities, a new challenge in Minnesota looks at DOJ's use of JAG lawyers in…
 • Chris Geidner
Trump admin effort to claim Kari Lake had power over Voice of America was illegal, judge rules
"The Court declines Lake’s invitation to do such violence to the statutory and constitutional scheme," Judge Lamberth ruled on Saturday. And, for paid…
 • Chris Geidner
Alabama was set to kill Sonny Burton on Thursday. Governor Kay Ivey stopped it.
Sonny Burton did not kill anyone, but Alabama put him on death row. Update: Ivey granted Burton clemency on March 10, commuting his death sentence to a…
 • Chris Geidner
Here's the Law Dork filing you can't access on PACER. All of this refugee case's filings should be online.
A magistrate judge denied Law Dork's request for online access to the docket in a significant refugee rights case in Minnesota. Law Dork's lawyers filed…
 • Chris Geidner
Judge moves, cautiously, toward civil contempt in case over treatment of trans people in prison
“Once I issue an order, it’s my intent to enforce it,“ Judge Lamberth told the government. And: Facing the Trump administration's ridiculousness. Until…
 • Chris Geidner
SCOTUS conservatives block California gender-identity student protections, N.Y. map change
The two Monday night orders were issued over the objections of the three liberal justices.
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