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Law360 @law360.bsky.social · 11h

Republican lawmakers have long dreamed of breaking up the nation's largest appellate court. But that fervor has diminished as the Ninth Circuit's balance of Democratic and Republican appointees has evened out in recent years. #Law360Pulse

Has The 9th Circ.'s Rightward Shift Ended Bids To Split It? - Law360

Republican lawmakers have long dreamed of breaking up the nation's largest appellate court. But that fervor has diminished as the Ninth Circuit's balance of Democratic and Republican appointees has evened out in recent years, upending the circuit's status as a culture war lightning rod.

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Nate Raymond @nateraymond.bsky.social · 23h

The Boston Globe says in Pete Hegseth's 2013 thesis for the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, he "described closing racial achievement gaps as a 'laudable goal,' backed 'equality, diversity, and accessibility,' and saw the necessity of working with Democrats." www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/07/m...

Pete Hegseth railed against diversity and equity to generals. As a Harvard student, he had a much different take. - The Boston Globe

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth once described closing minority achievement gaps as a “laudable goal.”

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Nate Raymond @nateraymond.bsky.social · 1d

"The press statements could augur a lawsuit in the coming days. The Pentagon Press Association has retained counsel, and lawyers for news organizations have been deeply involved in discussions about whether to sign." www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Prominent news outlets reject Pentagon rules before signing deadline

The Washington Post and other major news outlets have refused to sign the Defense Department’s restrictive new press policy, citing First Amendment concerns.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 1d

North Carolina Republicans announced today they’re going to pass a new congressional map to draw a Dem out of Congress; they already did last cycle, going from 7-7 to 10-4. Thus would be 11-3. t.co/XLJIhe8vZn

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Nate Raymond @nateraymond.bsky.social · 1d

This is essentially my way of summing up why I've been so busy running to court this year in Boston. The courts within the 1st Circuit now have the second most litigation over Trump policies, behind only D.C., and have more than half of the multistate lawsuits state AGs have filed this year.

Nate Raymond @nateraymond.bsky.social · 1d

New: How the federal courts in New England including Massachusetts and Rhode Island became popular venues to sue Trump's administration in and win injunctions blocking his agenda. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

New England courts become a battleground for challenges to Trump

A federal judge in Boston had some pointed words for Donald Trump as he issued one of the dozens of decisions by courts in four New England states against the Republican president in challenges to the legality of his policies.

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Nate Raymond @nateraymond.bsky.social · 1d

It's forum shopping but not judge shopping. Unlike in Texas, there is no guarantee which judge you get by suing in MA or RI, just extremely high odds of getting a Democratic appointee (or in one case a Trump appointee Obama originally nominated).

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Nate Raymond @nateraymond.bsky.social · 1d

This is essentially my way of summing up why I've been so busy running to court this year in Boston. The courts within the 1st Circuit now have the second most litigation over Trump policies, behind only D.C., and have more than half of the multistate lawsuits state AGs have filed this year.

Nate Raymond @nateraymond.bsky.social · 1d

New: How the federal courts in New England including Massachusetts and Rhode Island became popular venues to sue Trump's administration in and win injunctions blocking his agenda. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

New England courts become a battleground for challenges to Trump

A federal judge in Boston had some pointed words for Donald Trump as he issued one of the dozens of decisions by courts in four New England states against the Republican president in challenges to the legality of his policies.

www.reuters.com

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Nate Raymond @nateraymond.bsky.social · 1d

New: How the federal courts in New England including Massachusetts and Rhode Island became popular venues to sue Trump's administration in and win injunctions blocking his agenda. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

New England courts become a battleground for challenges to Trump

A federal judge in Boston had some pointed words for Donald Trump as he issued one of the dozens of decisions by courts in four New England states against the Republican president in challenges to the legality of his policies.

www.reuters.com

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Nate Raymond @nateraymond.bsky.social · 1d

New: How the federal courts in New England including Massachusetts and Rhode Island became popular venues to sue Trump's administration in and win injunctions blocking his agenda. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

New England courts become a battleground for challenges to Trump

A federal judge in Boston had some pointed words for Donald Trump as he issued one of the dozens of decisions by courts in four New England states against the Republican president in challenges to the legality of his policies.

www.reuters.com

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Nate Raymond @nateraymond.bsky.social · 2d

I'm finishing up a story looking at the 1st Circuit, and I was struck by how many of its decisions on stay applications were written as full-fledged published opinions with a signed author (usually Judge Barron).

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Nate Raymond @nateraymond.bsky.social · 5d

I wonder if the concern was that Trump-appointed Judge Bibas previously voted in favor of rejecting a challenge to Delaware's own ban. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

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Nate Raymond @nateraymond.bsky.social · 5d

Good call. I was surprised by the rush to confirm her, the SJC only advanced her last week.

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Nate Raymond @nateraymond.bsky.social · 5d

Why 9? I thought there were only eight Republican appointees counting her.

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Nate Raymond @nateraymond.bsky.social · 5d

New: The Senate confirmed Jennifer Mascott, President Donald Trump's latest nominee to the 3rd Circuit, further shifting the appeals court's ideological balance to the right. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

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Sean O’Kane @seanokane.bsky.social · 6d

WSJ is reporting that the Truth Social post where Trump told Pam Bondi to prosecute Comey *really was supposed to be a private message*

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Inside the Justice Department Where the President Calls the Shots

The president has executed a wholesale transformation of the Justice Department, taking control in ways he could have only dreamed of in his first term.

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Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 7d

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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Nate Raymond @nateraymond.bsky.social · 7d

New Hampshire Supreme Court Justice Anna Barbara Hantz Marconi pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor and was sentenced to a $1,200 fine after striking a deal to resolve charges that she attempted to interfere with a criminal investigation involving her husband. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 7d

The Justice Department has brought in two AUSAs from out of state to work the Comey prosecution: Tyler Lemons and Gabriel Diaz. Both are detailed from the U.S. Attorney's office in North Carolina.

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Nate Raymond @nateraymond.bsky.social · 10d

For those who closely know me, they'll understand this is a big deal to me.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10d

BREAKING: Federal judge BLOCKS a new ICE policy that went into effect last week to automatically detain unaccompanied migrant children on their 18th birthday when they “age out” of shelter care.

The TRO enforces a court order in a case brought by @immcouncil.org and @immigrantjustice.bsky.social.

Garcia Ramirez v. ICE case caption.

ORDER GRANTING MOTION FOR TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER AND TO ENFORCE FINAL JUDGMENT AND PERMANENT INJUNCTION
Upon consideration of Plaintiffs' Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order and to
Enforce the Permanent Injunction and accompanying Memorandum of Points and Authorities
and Declarations (the "Motion"), and all other materials properly before this Court, it is hereby
ORDERED that Plaintiffs' Motion is GRANTED; and it is further
ORDERED that Defendants and all persons acting under their direction or in concert with them, are hereby ENJOINED from implementing any new directive regarding age-outs;
ORDERED that Defendants and all persons acting under their direction or in concert
with them, are hereby ENJOINED from detaining any class member in an adult ICE facility in
any manner that contravenes the Permanent Injunction;
ORDERED that Defendants immediately rescind any determinations to detain based on this directive;
ORDERED that Defendants immediately produce that directive, any related policies
regarding that directive, and the Age-Out Review Worksheets of any class members who may
have been impacted by that directive, including all AORs issued since October 1, 2025.
SO ORDERED this 4th day of October 2025.

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taber @kvetch.gay · 11d

this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)

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Nate Raymond @nateraymond.bsky.social · 11d

Breaking: President Trump's effort to curtail birthright citizenship was declared unconstitutional by a second U.S. appeals court, handing him another defeat on a core piece of his hardline immigration agenda whose ultimate fate may lay with the U.S. Supreme Court. www.reuters.com/world/us/sec...

Second US appeals court rejects Trump's order curtailing birthright citizenship

President Donald Trump's effort to curtail birthright citizenship was declared unconstitutional by a second U.S. appeals court on Friday, handing him another defeat on a core piece of his hardline immigration agenda whose ultimate fate may lay with the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 12d

Immergut, who had the support of both Oregon's Democratic senators when nominated by Trump in 2019, served on Independent Counsel Ken Starr's staff and personally questioned Monica Lewinsky www.wweek.com/news/2019/03...

The Portland Lawyer Who Grilled Monica Lewinsky in the Starr Investigation Will Sail into Federal Judgeship

Karin Immergut, who as a young Portland prosecutor grilled Monica Lewinsky, will soon take a seat on the federal bench.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 12d

PAWHUSKA, Okla. (AP) — Former Texas megachurch pastor Robert Morris pleads guilty to charges of sexually abusing a girl in the 1980s.

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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 12d

BREAKING: At Trump DOJ request, Judge Michael Simon (Obama) recuses from Oregon's suit over activation of its National Guard for immigration enforcement/ICE security. New Judge Karin Immergut (Trump). DOJ argued comments by Simon's wife @RepBonamici about case merited recusal.

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