New: Senate GOP language restricting the ability of judges to hand down initial rulings against the federal government included in a massive tax cuts and spending bill doesn’t adhere with Senate rules, parliamentarian says. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/go…

The American Bar Association is persisting in rating judicial nominees. My sense is these ratings are higher than the nominees would've received in Trump 45.

NEW: The White House approached Emil Bove about his interest in a federal judgeship about a month after he ordered the dismissal of corruption charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/de…

Emil Bove, a DOJ official and Trump's former personal lawyer, denied whistleblower allegations that he suggested government lawyers ignore court orders, and faced questions on his other conduct at DOJ during his confirmation hearing for the Third Circuit news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/ci…

New: Star conservative lawyer Paul Clement has moved to defend Maryland's federal trial judges from a Justice Department lawsuit, the latest instance of him facing off with the Trump administration in court news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/pa…

President Donald Trump plans to nominate former US attorney and senior Justice Department official William Mercer to Montana’s US trial court Biden pick Danna Jackson’s nomination stalled last year after Sen. Steve Daines didn’t return his blue slip news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/tr…

The federal judges in the Northern District of New York have declined to appoint John Sarcone, President Donald Trump’s temporary US attorney pick, to permanently serve as their district’s top prosecutor. Via Jacqueline Thomsen news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/ne…

NEW: Whitney Hermandorfer, a litigator in Tennessee’s attorney general’s office and Donald Trump’s first judicial nominee of his second term, won confirmation, 46-42, to a federal appeals court seat in Nashville news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/tr…

No headwinds yet for DOJ official Emil Bove, Trump's controversial nominee for a seat on a federal appellate court. Sen. Thom Tillis told me today, "I don’t see any reason why I wouldn’t support him. I intend to vote for him, today." w/ Tiana Headley news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/ex…

President Donald Trump is continuing to consider lawyers of Asian American or Pacific Islander descent for the appellate bench at a rate unrivaled by his Republican predecessors with his plans to nominate Eric Tung of Jones Day for the 9th Circuit news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/tr…

President Trump announced he’d nominate Jennifer Mascott, a law professor working in his White House Counsel’s office, to the Third Circuit The court has just one remaining vacancy, in Delaware, without a pending nominee following Emil Bove’s nomination news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/tr…

The Senate Judiciary Committee approved Emil Bove's appellate nomination along party lines, over the protests of Democrats who complained they weren't allowed to speak before the vote news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/se…

Caught Sen. Cory Booker after Judiciary to get his reaction on the Bove vote: “It just shows again that they're now literally supplicating themselves before Donald Trump, surrendering their power, even their roles and responsibilities for their dear leader,” he told me.

My latest: Senators in one of two remaining states represented by a Republican and a Democrat will soon find out how much weight their bipartisan judicial recommendations carry in the Trump White House news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/wi…

It’s official: Emil Bove has been confirmed to the Third Circuit

Early today Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley said he was “offended” and “disappointed” by President Donald Trump’s social media post blasting him for preserving a longstanding custom that gives home-state senators approval over certain nominations news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/gr…

Alabama Solicitor General Edmund LaCour returns as a federal judicial nominee under Trump, this time for the Northern District of Alabama Trump had nominated LaCour to the Middle District of Alabama in 2020 but he was blocked by Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala) news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/al…

A Virginia federal judge is hearing arguments now in Baltimore on the Justice Department's suit against all fed judges in Maryland. "I think you’ve probably picked up on the fact that I have some skepticism," the presiding judge told a DOJ lawyer news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/ju…