“Lindsey Halligan is no longer employed by the Justice Department after her departure from Virginia U.S. attorney’s office; Halligan, who had no prosecutorial experience, stepped down from her post in the Eastern District of Virginia after a judge ruled she was ‘masquerading’ as U.S. attorney”: Ryan J. Reilly and Dareh Gregorian of NBC News have this report.
“This May Be the Only Path to Accountability for the Minneapolis Shootings”: Law professors Barry Friedman and Stephen I. Vladeck have this guest essay online at The New York Times.
“Limits on ICE Agents in Minnesota Blocked by Appeals Court”: Peter Blumberg and Zoe Tillman of Bloomberg News have this report.
You can access today’s per curiam decision of a partially divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit at this link.
“Court Affirms Ruling That Alina Habba Served Unlawfully as U.S. Attorney; The Justice Department lost a bid to challenge a decision that had found Ms. Habba was serving unlawfully as New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor”: Jonah E. Bromwich and Tracey Tully of The New York Times have this report.
And Celine Castronuovo of Bloomberg Law reports that “DOJ Rebuffed by Judges in Bid to Return Habba as Prosecutor.”
You can view today’s 8-to-3 order of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit denying rehearing en banc at this link.
“Tom Goldstein Says Prosecutors Withheld Exculpatory Material”: Holly Barker of Bloomberg Law has this report.
“ICE’s Actions Are Gutting the Fourth Amendment”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.
“206. “Administrative Warrants” and the Percival Op-Ed: ICE is claiming the authority to search private homes without a judicial warrant if it’s looking for non-citizens under a ‘final order of removal’; DHS’s public defense rests on two incorrect claims.” Steve Vladeck has this post at his “One First” Substack site.
“Will the Court Actually Push Back Against Trump’s Unlawful Firings?” You can access today’s new episode of the “Strict Scrutiny” podcast via this link and on YouTube.