“Judge Quashes Justice Dept.’s Subpoenas of Fed, Crippling Its Pursuit of Trump’s Rivals; Judge James E. Boasberg derided the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington for pursuing a case against Jerome H. Powell that appeared to be motivated by President Trump’s desire for vengeance”: Alan Feuer, Glenn Thrush, and Colby Smith of The New York Times have this report.
Salvador Rizzo and Andrew Ackerman of The Washington Post report that “Court blocks Justice Department subpoenas of Federal Reserve; The decision is a significant victory for the Fed. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said she would appeal the ruling.”
Nick Timiraos and C. Ryan Barber of The Wall Street Journal report that “Judge Throws Out Justice Department Subpoenas to Federal Reserve; ‘Abundant evidence’ exists that the subpoenas were designed to ‘harass and pressure Powell’ to yield to Trump, ruling says.”
And Sam Sutton, Josh Gerstein, and Jasper Goodman of Politico report that “Court blocks probe of Fed Chair Jerome Powell, DOJ to appeal; The decision potentially clears the path for Trump’s nominee to replace Powell as Fed chair, former Fed Gov. Kevin Warsh.”
You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia at this link.
“The Death Penalty Is Even More Horrifying Than You Think”: The New York Times has published this editorial.
“A Judicial Climate Science Scandal: How political actors hijacked an education manual for judges to serve the plaintiffs bar.” This editorial will appear in Saturday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.
“Ninth Circuit upholds block on Montana’s drag story hour ban; A Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals panel affirmed a lower court’s decision blocking Montana from enforcing a 2023 law that banned drag performers from reading to children and restricted minors from attending drag performances; The Ninth Circuit panel ruled the law unconstitutionally targeted protected speech under the First Amendment”: Quinn Welsch of Courthouse News Service has this report.
You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit at this link.
“Trump’s Voting Nemesis Is at the Supreme Court. We Can’t Afford for SCOTUS to Get It Wrong.” David H. Gans has this Jurisprudence essay online at Slate.
“The Trump Administration Floats a New Way to Humiliate the Legal Profession”: Deborah Pearlstein has this guest essay online at The New York Times.
“Judicial Rhetoric, Artful and Clumsy”: Adrian Vermeule has this post at “The New Digest” Substack site.
“A Trump-appointed judge used a vulgar term to attack trans women. His colleagues hit back.” Sara Libby of The San Francisco Chronicle has this report.
And at “Above the Law,” Joe Patrice has a post titled “‘We Are Better Than This,’ Say Ninth Circuit Judges Despite All Evidence To The Contrary; Total dick writes about ‘swinging dicks’ in trans discrimination case, prompting fellow judges to beg for basic professionalism.”
“Ron DeSantis Wants Speedy Executions, and Lots of Them; After President Trump urged states to recommit themselves to capital punishment, Florida started to put prisoners to death at rates not seen in the state’s modern history”: Adam Liptak has this new installment of his “The Docket” newsletter online at The New York Times.
“Hip-Hop Icons Tell Justices That Texas Turned Rap Lyrics Into a Death Warrant; Killer Mike, Travis Scott, T.I. and other artists said James Broadnax was sent to death row in Texas based partly on his artistic expression”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times recently had this report.
“VanDyke Uses Crude Phrase in Case Over Spa’s Transgender Policy”: Suzanne Monyak of Bloomberg Law has this report.
“Judge VanDyke: ‘This is a case about swinging dicks.’ 30 members of the Ninth Circuit write to disagree.” Josh Blackman has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”
You can access yesterday’s order of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denying rehearing en banc, and the opinions and statements accompanying it, at this link.
