@servelan@newsie.socialAttorneys Representing Federal Employees With Disabilities Need to Prepare for a Lot More Business - Federal EEOC Guidance on Telework : r/fednews
https://www.reddit.com/r/fednews/comments/1r8duob/attorneys_representing_federal_employees_with/
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioOh, wow, worth reading the details of this one. It’s wild! And…it’s heartening!
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/12/17/couple-pleads-not-guilty-as-attorneys-clash-with-feds-over-hsi-agent-encounter
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAnkar, which develops LLM-powered AI tools to streamline the process of drafting patent applications for patent attorneys, raised a $20M Series A led by Atomico (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/12/17/exclusi
@memeorandum@universeodon.comICE Says U.S. Citizen's Birth Certificate Is Fake After Arresting Her: Attorneys (HuffPost)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/us-citizen-arrested-by-ice_n_693c9355e4b018dc36f254c0
http://www.memeorandum.com/251218/p139#a251218p139
@cdarwin@c.imLA Times Investigation:
Ex-Trump DOJ lawyers say ‘fraudulent’ UC antisemitism probes led them to quit
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-12-13/former-doj-attorneys-university-of-california-ucl…
@servelan@newsie.social"The attorneys general of California and nearly 20 other states to submit a comment letter on the US Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) proposed rule that would reverse HHS regulations concerning the definition of “disability” under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to exclude gender dysphoria, which is the underlying diagnosis for transgender individuals."
‘We Strongly Support The Rights Of Transgender People’
https://washingtoncurrent.substack.com/p/we-strongly-support-the-rights-of
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump seems to wave the white flag on his US attorneys gambit (Erica Orden/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/13/donald-trump-us-attorneys-senate-confirmation-00689692
http://www.memeorandum.com/251213/p7#a251213p7
@cdarwin@c.imTrump's CDC is canceling $600M in HIV and STD funds to four Democrat-led states
The Centers for Disease Control plans to suspend grants to local public health agencies, hospitals, NGOs and universities in
California, Colorado, Illinois and Minnesota
Attorneys general in the four states set to lose funding have sued to block the cuts,
saying the changes are retaliation over state resistance to the administration's immigration priorities.
In the suit, th…
@servelan@newsie.socialDOJ Flames Judiciary Over Impertinent Demand For Competent US Attorneys - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2026/02/doj-flames-judiciary-over-impertinent-demand-for-competent-us-attorneys/
@raiders@darktundra.xyzAttorneys for NFL again filing appeal in Jon Gruden lawsuit https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/civil-courts/attorneys-for-nfl-again-filing-appeal-in-jon-gruden-lawsuit-3612267/
@memeorandum@universeodon.comFederal prosecutors quit in protest over lack of investigation into ICE shooting (Richard Luscombe/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/13/doj-attorneys-resign-minneapolis-ice-shooting
http://www.memeorandum.com/260113/p120#a260113p120
@chrisnelder@mastodon.energyVery happy to see Trump’s illegal block on wind farm development thrown out by a judge, along with the Orwellian justification given for it—a classic inversion of the truth. Every accusation is a confession, etc. (“The government argued that the states’ claims amount to nothing more than a policy disagreement over preferences for wind versus fossil fuel energy development that is outside the federal court’s jurisdiction.”)
@cdarwin@c.imWhen Immigration and Customs Enforcement pulled all of its detainees out of the Cumberland County Jail,
many of them were moved to a field office in Burlington, Massachusetts,
about 100 miles from Portland, Maine.
The facility is designed for administrative processing,
but immigration attorneys say it has been holding some people for more than 10 days
-- raising concerns about due process and access to legal counsel.
Lisa Parisio,
policy director at…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTimes Investigation: Ex-Trump DOJ lawyers say 'fraudulent' UC antisemitism probes led them to quit (Jaweed Kaleem/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-12-13/former-doj-attorneys-university-of-california-ucla-antisemitism-investigation
http://www.memeorandum.com/251213/p59#a251213p59
@catsalad@infosec.exchange“I sang him the Meow Mix jingle instead of feeding him immediately”
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA group of state AGs sent a letter to Meta, Microsoft, Google, Apple, and others warning their chatbots' "delusional outputs" could be violating state laws (Courtney Rozen/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-…
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialI realize I have no words to describe those who are not outraged by this #abuse of #PolicePower. This is among the horrors of dictatorship that were cited to me as one example of how evil the #totalitarians
@paulwermer@sfba.socialI realize I have no words to describe those who are not outraged by this #abuse of #PolicePower. This is among the horrors of dictatorship that were cited to me as one example of how evil the #totalitarians
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialUS v. Google: the DOJ and a group of states will appeal the September 2025 ruling in the Search antitrust case in which Google dodged a forced sale of Chrome (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-03/googl…
@privacity@social.linux.pizzaFPF Retrospective: U.S. Privacy Enforcement in 2025
https://fpf.org/blog/fpf-retrospective-u-s-privacy-enforcement-in-2025/
@…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzGruden lawyers to seek testimony from Goodell https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47841244/jon-gruden-lawyers-seek-testimony-roger-goodell-owners
@cdarwin@c.imUnder pressure from Republican state attorneys general, the agency that advises
the U.S. Supreme Court and federal judges on scientific and technical matters has
withdrawn the entirety of its content on climate change from a new judicial reference manual.
The move by the Federal Judicial Center leaves judges without any official support on how to weigh evidence about basic weather and climate changes
-- just as numerous climate cases make their way through state and f…
@kctipton@mas.toJudge Calls DOJ's Slavery Exhibit Comments 'Dangerous' | HuffPost https://www.huffpost.com/entry/judge-calls-dojs-slavery-exhibit-comments-dangerous_n_697d3eb1e4b0b1de95c1c9e5
@memeorandum@universeodon.comDOJ Orders Emergency Surge Prosecutors From All US Attorneys (Ben Penn/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/doj-demands-emergency-surge-prosecutors-from-all-us-attorneys
http://www.memeorandum.com/260203/p93#a260203p93
@bobmueller@mastodon.worldWhy has it taken so long to fix this injustice? #WrongfulConvictions
https://apnews.com/article/alabama-pregnancy-loss-prosecution-6517…
@cdarwin@c.imThe Trump administration is arguing that requiring real-time American Sign Language interpretation of events like White House press briefings
“would severely intrude on the President’s prerogative to control the image he presents to the public,”
part of a lawsuit seeking to require the White House to provide the services.
Department of Justice attorneys haven’t elaborated on how doing so might hamper the portrayal Trump seeks to present to the public.
But overturning p…
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialI am wondering why people still pay their Federal taxes?
(I sent my quarterly payment to the IRS about a week ago. And I cringed at the thought of what ill uses it might be used for.)
'How “Bitcoin Jesus” Avoided Prison, Thanks to One of the “Friends of Trump”'
https://www.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at the uphill battle to win regulatory approval for Netflix's acquisition of WBD, and the roles of the US DOJ, EU regulators, and state attorneys general (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/12/netflix-warner-bros-trump-regulatory…
@cwilcke@bildung.socialthe next croony fellow on the way to the crime scene #Minneapolis . The citizens of the #usa deserve and should request judges and attorneys, not #special-envoys from the
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialIndie film and anti-monopoly groups urge state attorneys general to block the Netflix-WBD deal and also object to any WBD acquisition by Paramount or Comcast (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-2…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comDOJ seeks to enlist 400 attorneys to review more than 5M pages of Epstein records: Sources (ABC News)
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/doj-seeks-enlist-400-attorneys-review-5m-pages/story?id=128809409
http://www.memeorandum.com/251231/p61#a251231p61
@cdarwin@c.imThe Oglala Sioux Tribe is seeking answers after
four enrolled members were detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minneapolis.
Tribal President Frank Star Comes Out said in a statement on Facebook that the men,
who were homeless and living near the Little Earth housing complex in Minneapolis,
home to nearly 1,500 people,
many of whom are Native American.
The men were taken into custody without their names being recorded, the tribe …
@Techmeme@techhub.socialUS v. Google: the DOJ and a group of states will appeal the September 2025 ruling in the Search antitrust case in which Google dodged a forced sale of Chrome (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-03/googl…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialFiling: Fox News seeks to dismiss Newsmax's antitrust lawsuit filed in Wisconsin, after a Florida judge dismissed an earlier version of the case in September (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2025/11/fox-moves-to-dismiss-second-newsmax-anti…
@cdarwin@c.imA federal judge on Monday
struck down Donald Trump’s executive order blocking wind energy projects,
saying the effort to halt virtually all leasing of wind farms on federal lands and waters was
“arbitrary and capricious” and violates U.S. law.
Judge Patti Saris of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
vacated Trump’s Jan. 20 executive order blocking wind energy projects and declared it unlawful.
Saris ruled in favor of a coalition of…
@servelan@newsie.socialRepublican attorneys general end lawsuit challenging school gender dysphoria accommodations • Louisiana Illuminator
https://lailluminator.com/2026/01/31/repub/gender-dysphoria-lawsuit/
@memeorandum@universeodon.comState attorneys general sue Trump administration over efforts to shutter CFPB (Aiden Reiter/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/22/state-attorneys-general-sue-trump-administration-over-efforts-to-shutter-cfpb-00703163
http://www.memeorandum.com/251222/p95#a251222p95
@cdarwin@c.imA federal agent pointed a gun at a combat veteran’s face and said “
"bang, bang” and
“you’re dead, liberal”
during an immigration raid last week in Chicago,
the veteran is alleging in a new court filing.
https://…
@kctipton@mas.toAn L.A. man was detained in an immigration raid. No one knows where he is - Los Angeles Times https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-11-22/la-man-was-detained-in-immigration-raid-no-one-knows-where-he-is
@cdarwin@c.imChad Mizelle, a former chief of staff to Attorney General Pam Bondi,
hung an online help wanted sign for federal prosecutors last weekend
that perhaps explained 🔸why so many valuable Justice Department staff members have left, and 🔸why so few candidates want in.
Assistant U.S. attorneys are not typically recruited, as Mr. Mizelle sought to do, by a former federal employee who 👉asks potential candidates to send a private message to his X account.
Nor have they been ask…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialChatGPT told a teen who died by suicide to call for help 74 times over months but also used words like "hanging" and "suicide" very often, say family's lawyers (Washington Post)
@servelan@newsie.social60 Attorneys on the Year of Chaos Inside Trump’s Justice Department - The New York Times
https://archive.ph/WQRp7
@cdarwin@c.im"I’m sure she’ll take it under consideration and look at it seriously. …
Trump hasn’t made a secret about the retribution that he is asking some of his U.S. attorneys to take against his perceived enemies.
It is an extraordinary request, but maybe this is an extraordinary situation."
— Professor Carl Tobias of the University of Richmond School of Law,
in comments given to Law.com, concerning a request made by ex-CIA Director John Brennan’s lawyers
to Ch…
@cdarwin@c.imFederal judge Mary McElroy has blocked the Trump administration’s
attempt to reallocate federal Homeland Security funding away from states that refuse to cooperate with certain federal immigration enforcement.
U.S. District Judge Mary McElroy’s ruling on Monday solidified a win for the coalition of 12 attorneys general
that sued the administration earlier this year after being alerted that their states would receive drastically reduced federal grants due to their “sanctuary…
@cdarwin@c.imThe Trump administration will review frozen grants to universities ✅without using its controversial standards that discouraged gender, race and sexual orientation initiatives and vaccine research.
In a settlement agreement filed in Massachusetts federal court Monday, the National Institutes of Health and a group of Democratic attorneys general who’d challenged the new criteria for #grant
@cdarwin@c.imOn Friday, Judge Boasberg ordered the administration to submit declarations by December 5
from all officials involved in the decision not to return the flights to the U.S.
He said he will then decide whether to seek testimony from witnesses.
The declarations should detail the officials’ roles in the decision, the judge said in the brief order.
Justice Department attorneys had urged him to abandon the probe,
but Boasberg said he must determine whether Homeland S…
@cdarwin@c.im @cdarwin@c.imDays after immigration officials announced the death of a detainee at Newark migrant jail Delaney Hall,
Rep. LaMonica McIver visited the facility for the first time since prosecutors allege she assaulted federal agents there during a melee in May.
McIver’s visit coincided with a new filing in the Newark Democrat’s criminal case
in which her attorneys accuse prosecutors of failing to produce key evidence that they say shows bias among the agents involved in the scuffle,
@cdarwin@c.imI learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story,
INSIDE CECOT,
which was supposed to air tonight.
We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision.
She did not afford us that courtesy/opportunity.
Our story was screened five times
and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices.
It is factually correct.
In my view, pulling it now
-after every rigorous internal check has been met
is not an editorial decis…
@cdarwin@c.imThe Trump administration is preparing to upend a foundational safeguard of the Department of Justice,
by proposing a rule that would effectively bar DOJ attorneys from recusing themselves from cases due to conflicts of interest.
The rule, expected to be filed in the Federal Register as early as this week,
would grant Attorney General Pam Bondi final authority over all recusals.
Under the proposal, career prosecutors and political appointees alike would be required to…
