Fifth Circuit Judge James Ho said many of the US’s largest law firms are suffering from “institutional bias,” amid President Donald Trump’s attacks on firms that he views as enemies. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/ju…

Chief Justice John Roberts spoke out against President Donald Trump’s call for the impeachment of a judge who ruled against his effort to swiftly deport alleged Venezuelan gang members. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/tr…

Judge Lawrence VanDyke said his colleagues on the Ninth Circuit don't understand how guns work. His solution? An unusual video dissent, filmed in his chambers, in which he went over the parts of several handguns. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/ju…

Scoop: Interim US attorney Ed Martin announced his investigation into Capitol riot prosecutions has “expanded in scope” and likened the government’s use of an obstruction statute against rioters to Japanese internment, in an officewide email I obtained. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/to…

A lead prosecutor nearly pulled off a major case days before trial. Signs emblazoned with Trump’s executive order to make DC “safe and beautiful” hanging on each floor. My latest on the low morale & tumult at the DC US attorney’s office under Ed Martin: news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/tr…

Many lawyers who argue for Trump at Supreme Court are heading for the exit At least half of the front-line attorneys in the solicitor general’s office plan to leave, per people familiar, as Trump’s emergency requests pile up.  By Ann Marimow washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…

The Justice Department removed the acting national security head from his post hours after Attorney General Pam Bondi saw a portrait of former President Joe Biden continuing to hang in the division’s front office, Justin Wise reports

Scoop: Employees with the Justice Department’s civil rights division have been offered another chance to take deferred resignations, as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to slash the federal workforce. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/do…

Coloring books published by Washington’s top prosecutor feature versions of President Donald Trump breaking handcuffs with chiseled arms, his fist raised in front of a map of the US, and as a friendly Santa Claus. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/to…

Top US judiciary officials warned the court system doesn’t have sufficient funds to secure its courthouses. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/us…

Scoop: Two top career supervisors in the Justice Department’s civil rights division have been temporarily reassigned to other offices, as part of the Trump administration’s effort to reshape the unit tasked with enforcing anti-discrimination laws. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/to…

News: Judge Mark Pittman now wants attorneys to prove their lawsuits belong in his Fort Worth federal court if there's no obvious ties to the division. Comes after an appeals court twice rejected his order transferring a national lawsuit out of his court news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/te…

EXCLUSIVE: Our investigation of Montana LLCs published. We found thousands of cars plated in Montana and operated elsewhere, sheltering owners from taxes and fees in the other 49 states. The cost to non-Montana states runs in the billions. Only in Bloomberg Tax news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-repo…

News: Lawyers are lining up for the open federal judgeships in Texas. Folks interviewed include a new SCOTX member, a former Cruz counsel, a Paxton whistleblower and current magistrate judges. w/ Ryan Autullo news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/ne…

The 200+ orders halting Trump administration policies were a mix of short-term pauses -- reflecting judges' baseline concern about the speed US officials are moving -- and longer-term blocks finding challengers were likely to prevail arguing actions violated US laws

The Trump administration is citing a short student piece to defend the legality of the president’s executive order restricting automatic birthright citizenship. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/do…

“Imagine a fight in a cowfield,” Fane Lozman said. “You step on a cowpie most of the time, but every so often you step on a cert grant.” news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/th…

NEW: The Justice Department is losing its counterintelligence chief at a critical time when it comes to threats from Iran, China, etc., as Trump administration's national security brain drain continues. w/ Justin Wise news.bloomberglaw.com/white-collar-a…

Scoop: After Trump's personal lawyer complained of weaponization, DOJ leadership ordered prosecutors to settle w/ ex-Puerto Rico governor (who endorsed Trump) & billionaire banker just before their bribery trial. They got misdemeanor plea deals. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/ex…

Colega Ben Penn reporta que líderes del Departamento de Justicia ordenaron a fiscales, justo antes de comenzar un juicio por soborno, que llegaran a un acuerdo más indulgente con la exgobernadora Wanda Vázquez Garced, quien había respaldado a Trump. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/ex…