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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · 20d

John Bolton has arrived at the federal courthouse in Greenbelt, Md. to surrender.

No photos allowed inside here. But after he entered, he went to the bathroom and was then taken back into the US Marshals office

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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · 28d

NY AG Letitia James's indictment has been assigned to U.S. District Judge Jamar Walker.

Walker is an appointee of former President Biden who serves in Norfolk, Va.

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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · Sep 26

NEW: The Supreme Court allows Trump to cancel $4 billion in appropriated foreign aid.

The three liberal justices publicly dissented.

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · Sep 18

The Trump administration asks Supreme Court for the go-ahead to fire Lisa Cook

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

25A312

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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · Sep 10

NEW: The Supreme Court rejects South Carolina's request to enforce its transgender bathroom ban against a transgender boy in 9th grade.

The order says it "is not a ruling on the merits of the legal issues."

Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch dissent

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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · Sep 9

BREAKING: Supreme Court agrees to speedily review Trump's tariffs, setting the stage for a potentially blockbuster case.

Oral arguments will be first week of November.

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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · Sep 4

Trump administration brings the fight over tariffs to the Supreme Court.

The administration wants the justices to decide next week whether they'll take up the case and schedule oral arguments for early November.
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Tariff VOS Selections Cert Petition

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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · Aug 14

Supreme Court won't block Mississippi's social media age verification law, for now.

But Justice Brett Kavanaugh suggests its unconstitutional and the tech industry's challenge will likely succeed in the end.

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

25A97 Order

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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · Aug 7

New - The Trump administration asks the Supreme Court to lift a judge's limits on “indiscriminate” immigration raids in the Los Angeles area.

It's the administration's 22nd emergency appeal to the high court since taking office:

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · Aug 1

The order references pages 36-38 of the appellees' brief.

That's where a group of self-described "non-African American voters" argue that Louisiana lacks a compelling interest to draw a second majority-Black congressional district to comply with the Voting Rights Act.

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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · Aug 1

Supreme Court announces the question they’ll consider when they rehear a major redistricting case in Louisiana next term:

“Whether the State’s intentional creation of a second majority-minority congressional district violates the
Fourteenth or Fifteenth Amendments to the U. S. Constitution.”

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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · Jul 31

Spotted in the courtroom gallery for today’s tariff argument:

Judge Pauline Newman, 98, the nation’s oldest active federal judge.

Newman’s colleagues have prevented her from hearing new cases over concerns about her mental fitness.

Newman is suing her colleagues over it.

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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · Jul 24

Not anymore!

Trump admin files emergency application #21. This one seeks to cancel $783 million in NIH grants:

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · Jul 24

The Supreme Court has no pending emergency appeals from the Trump administration for the first time since March 25.

With today’s ruling permitting Trump’s firing of CPSC members, all *20* of the admin’s emergency applications have been disposed of one way or another.

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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · Jul 22

Blanche is friends with Ghislaine Maxwell's attorney (David Oscar Markus), so there's already some rapport here:

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · Jul 22

BREAKING

Deputy AG Todd Blanche says the DOJ stands by the July 6 memo but that he anticipates meeting with Ghislaine Maxwell in the coming days.

Blanche says no administration has inquired about meeting her, presumably including the first Trump administration, during which Maxwell was charged.

This Department of Justice does not shy away from uncomfortable truths, nor from the responsibility to pursue justice wherever the facts may lead. The joint statement by the DOJ and FBI of July 6 remains as accurate today as it was when it was written. Namely, that in the recent thorough review of the files maintained by the FBI in the Epstein case, no evidence was uncovered that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties.

President Trump has told us to release all credible evidence. If Ghislane Maxwell has information about anyone who has committed crimes against victims, the FBI and the DOJ will hear what she has to say.

Therefore, at the direction of Attorney General Bondi, I have communicated with counsel for Ms. Maxwell to determine whether she would be willing to speak with prosecutors from the Department. I anticipate meeting with Ms. Maxwell in the coming days. Until now, no administration on behalf of the Department had inquired about her willingness to meet with the government. That changes now.”

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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · Jul 18

Here is Trump's suit over The Wall Street Journal's Epstein story:

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · Jul 14

Supreme Court allows resumption of Education Department layoffs in an apparent 6-3 vote along ideological lines.

A lower judge had blocked a RIF impacting roughly half the department's workforce.

www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · Jul 10

Lawsuit here: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

American Oversight Bove FOIA lawsuit

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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · Jul 10

First in @thehill.com

A watchdog group is bringing a FOIA lawsuit seeking communications involving Emil Bove, a top DOJ official now nominated for an appeals court judgeship, following a whistleblower complaint:

thehill.com/regulation/c...

thehill.com

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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · Jul 3

Supreme Court takes up whether states can ban transgender athletes from competing on girls’ and women’s school sports teams. The justices will hear appeals from Idaho and West Virginia.

Decision expected by next summer.

w/ @bmigdon.bsky.social

thehill.com/regulation/c...

thehill.com

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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · Jul 2

Trump admin files its 20th emergency application at the Supreme Court since taking office.

They want an emergency ruling greenlighting Trump's firings of Democratic appointees at the CPSC.

The admin also encourages the court to take up the case in full:

www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

www.documentcloud.org

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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · Jun 27

In a 6-3 decision along ideological lines authored by Justice Clarence Thomas, the Supreme Court upheld a Texas law requiring porn sites to verify that users are at least 18 years old.

It rejects a First Amendment challenge brought by the porn industry, which was represented by the ACLU.

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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · Jun 27

Justice Sonia Sotomayor is reading her dissent aloud.

It's the third time this term.

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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · Jun 27

By not including an opt-out option, the court ruled Montgomery County, Md., likely burdened the parents’ religious exercise in violation of the First Amendment.

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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · Jun 27

In a 6-3 decision along ideological lines authored by Justice Samuel Alito, the Supreme Court rules for a group of parents seeking to opt out their children from instruction with books that include LGBTQ themes.

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