Last week the Second Circuit set June 11 as the date for oral argument in Trump’s appeal concerning his effort to have the appeal of the Manhattan business records case transferred to federal court. People of the State of New York v. Trump, 24-2299, (2d Cir. Apr 22, 2025) ECF No.

“Ballard was, and still is, a citizen of the United States ; unless, perchance, he should be a citizen of the world. The latter is a creature of the imagination, and far too refined for any republic of ancient or modern times. If however, he be a citizen of the world, the

From the diary of a 19th-century Attorney General of the United States: “Yet some zealous Optimists, wiser (as they think) than God, will not allow him to create man as he chooses—and as we, in fact, find him—but will have him made after some fashion of their own, and will have

When will DOJ release records showing who administered the oath to Jack Smith in Nov. 2022? “Signature of Officer” and “Title” fields were blank on the SF 61 docketed in Nov. 2022. Nor was the administrator's identity revealed in a 2023 JMD/HR Memo for the Record. Eagle Ed Martin

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What lower court (in)action is before the 5th Cir. now? With SCOTUS' super-injunction in place, how could lower court find irreparable harm for PI? Why are notice rules and AEA legality, which district judges rule on elsewhere, leapfrogging the district court here? I'm confused.

Before he proposed the “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” formulation that is now in the 14th amendment’s citizenship clause, Jacob Howard translated Empress Josephine’s Memoirs. The translator’s notes show that Napoleon was in his good books while Great Britain was not.

Oral argument at 1 p.m. EDT / 10 a.m. PDT in State of Washington, et al. v. Trump, et al., 25-807 (9th Cir.) Margot Cleveland youtube.com/watch?v=dDPzJY…

“For courts to quarrel and contend about jurisdiction is a piece of human frailty, and the more, because of a childish opinion, that it is the duty of a good and able judge to enlarge the jurisdiction of his court: whence this disorder is increased, and the spur made use of

“The attached CIA estimate of the effect upon Soviet policies of the death of Stalin speaks with assurance (“almost certainly”), and predicts exactly the opposite of what has happened so far.” — Memo re CIA estimate of probable consequences of the death of Stalin, April 10, 1953,

In 2023, President Biden’s attorneys insisted that former Presidents and Vice Presidents were within their rights to retain possession of secret documents that did not qualify as “presidential records” as the term is defined in the Presidential Records Act. A December 2023 letter

NA Form 14128: Notice to Users of NARA Classified Research Rooms—the form Robert Hur reported future President Biden signed on his second post-Vice Presidency visit to the Archives to look through notecards in 2017—presupposes that Standard Form 312, a classified information

Jack Smith’s 2023 Standard Form 61 The signature field was blank on Jack Smith’s 2022 Standard Form 61. To this point, DOJ has not provided records identifying who administered Smith’s 2022 oath. A 2023 Memorandum for the Record indicates that the Office of General Counsel

The Framers in tents.

Briefs submitted to the Supreme Court in United States v. Wong Kim Ark: archive.org/details/micro_…

On Jack Smith’s November 2022 appointment affidavit form, fields relating to the oath’s administrator were left blank. When asked who administered the 2022 oath, Smith answered, “I don't recall.”