Federal judges are wrestling with how to address an uptick in personal threats against them while navigating limits on what they can say publicly. From Suzanne Monyak
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Scoop: The chief fed judge in Western Texas tried to move a new appointee from the Del Rio court to the more politically charged Austin seat. The chief says it was over a conflict of interest, but sources say she had a personal motive. w/ Ryan Autullo news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/ch…

Scoop from Jacqueline Thomsen & Ryan Autullo: The chief judge of the Western District of Texas tried to move newly appointed judge Ernest Gonzalez out of her courthouse, and into the Austin location, over a personal issue. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/ch…

New: The Supreme Court will hearing arguments next week in a case that could spur requests to revive more than 300 Jan. 6 cases at the DC district court, which is already facing what its chief judge described as a 'completely unprecedented' caseload. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/su…

NEW: Biden-appointed judge blasts Justice Dept, accusing it of rank hypocrisy for blowing off House Hunter Biden probe subpoenas while prosecuting ex-Trump aides for similar defiance. And House lawyers didn't escape the epic benchslapping
w/Kyle Cheney
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I dove into how the Fifth Circuit is handling cases where trial judges have ordered they be transferred out of the circuit’s jurisdiction, with some saying the court is signaling that it’s willing to act to hang onto big lawsuits with national impact: bloomberglaw.com/product/blaw/b…

Eleventh Circuit Judge Elizabeth Branch told Harvard Law School students just now that protests she views as antisemitic on law school campuses are a spreading “cancer” that cross the line beyond protected speech.
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News: House Admin Committee told congressional offices that calls from the switchboard will now include caller ID – an effort to more easily identify threatening callers.

'The worst calls are nearly always through the switchboard,' one staffer told @Axios axios.com/2024/04/01/con…

Queen of news-you-can-use Victoria Knight making her washingtonian mag debut🔥

I don't remember ever seeing a sitting judge go on TV before, a sign of the extraordinary moment the country is in.

New: a litigation funder founded by Russian billionaires with ties to Vladimir Putin financed lawsuits in NY and London, both before and after three of its founders were sanctioned following the 2022 Ukraine invasion.

w/ john holland and Gary Harki

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The DC Circuit plans to hold oral argument at Catholic University’s law school on April 11, reviving its once regular practice to visit local law schools for the first time since before the pandemic. (Last law school-based arg was 2019 at Georgetown)
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Sen. Jacky Rosen of Nevada is the latest Democrat pledging to withhold support for Adeel Mangi’s nomination to become the first Muslim federal appeals court judge, further jeopardizing his confirmation chances. 3 Senate Democrats now on record opposing. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/la…

New story:

CIVRAC-EN-MEDOC, France — Former Rep. Jim McDermott is the rare lawmaker who has been able to live out all the policies he worked for during his decades in Washington.

He just had to move to another country to do it.

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Female lawyers have made unusually frequent appearances at the Supreme Court lectern this term. While the number of women advocates in recent terms has fluctuated between 12% and 24%, women have made 44 of the 130 arguments so far this term. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/ra…

Three federal trial judges who issued orders promoting argument opportunities for younger minority lawyers have taken 'corrective action,' a chief appeals court judge said, resolving misconduct complaints filed by a pair of conservative groups: news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/mi…