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Wednesday, January 29, 2025

“Four Circuit Seats Await as Trump Renews Plan to Shape Judiciary”: David Lat has this new installment of his “Exclusive Jurisdiction” column online at Bloomberg Law.

Posted at 9:24 PM by Howard Bashman



“Appeals court weighs if U.S. can nix accused 9/11 plotters’ plea deal; If the Pentagon were ever to get courts’ leeway to withdraw a pledge not to seek the death penalty, the United States says, it should be for the alleged mastermind of the 2001 attacks”: Spencer S. Hsu and Missy Ryan of The Washington Post have this report.

And Ryan Knappenberger of Courthouse News Service reports that “DC Circuit skeptical feds can back out of plea deal with 9/11 plotters; The federal government agreed not to seek the death penalty in a plea deal with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind behind the 9/11 terror attacks — but tried to back out just days later.”

You can access the audio of yesterday’s lengthy oral argument before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit at this link.

Posted at 9:02 PM by Howard Bashman



“As Establishment Warms to Trump, Elite Law Firm Takes On His Appeal; The involvement of Sullivan & Cromwell in the appeal of President Trump’s criminal conviction underscored how New York’s legal power players have moved toward Mr. Trump”: Jonah E. Bromwich of The New York Times has this report.

Posted at 8:42 PM by Howard Bashman



“Defying Legal Limits, Trump Firings Set Up Tests That Could Expand His Power; The prospect of legal challenges to President Trump’s purges may be a feature, not a bug, for adherents of sweeping presidential authority”: Charlie Savage of The New York Times has this news analysis.

Posted at 8:30 PM by Howard Bashman