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Trump Administration Fires 8 Immigration Judges in New York (Ana Ley/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/nyregion/immigration-judges-fired-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.5k8.cz07.P2jT4VQ8igrf&smid=nytcore-ios-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251201/p126#a251201p126

On Friday, federal judges in Massachusetts and Rhode Island issued rulings
that could soon bring relief to millions of Americans whose Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits are set to expire on Nov. 1,
requiring the Trump administration to fund the program, at least partially while the legal proceedings continue.
The SNAP program, commonly referred to as food stamps, is among many government programs affectedby the ongoing shutdown,
and has been one…

JUST IN: Two Federal Judges Rule Trump Admin Must Fund Food Stamps — At Least Partially
On Friday, federal judges in Massachusetts and Rhode Island issued rulings that could soon bring relief to millions of Americans whose Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits are set to expire on Nov. 1.

Senate panel sets up hearing on impeachments of 'rogue judges' (Ryan Tarinelli/Roll Call)
https://rollcall.com/2025/12/02/senate-panel-sets-up-hearing-on-impeachments-of-rogue-judges/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251202/p112#a251202p112

Trump Administration Fires 8 Immigration Judges in New York - The New York Times
https://archive.ph/XUxN8

Two federal judges ruled nearly simultaneously on Friday that President Donald Trump’s administration must to continue to fund SNAP, -- the nation’s biggest food aid program, -- using contingency funds during the government shutdown.
The rulings came a day before the U.S. Department of Agriculture planned to freeze payments to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program because it said it could no longer keep funding it due to the shutdown.
The program serves about 1 in 8 America…

Judges order the Trump administration to use contingency funds for SNAP payments during the shutdown
The rulings Friday came a day before the payments were due to be halted. SNAP is used by 1 in 8 Americans to buy groceries and is a major piece of the nation’s social safety net.

Amid systemic corruption, Amazon countries struggle to fight environmental crime https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/amid-systemic-corruption-amazon-countries-struggle-to-fight-environmental-crime/

Amid systemic corruption, Amazon countries struggle to fight environmental crime
The most powerful individuals in courtrooms are the judges. Their leadership is essential for bringing any type of reform to fruition, be it an anti-corruption campaign or an ‘all-of-government’ drive to fight environmental crime. In the Andean Republics, their involvement in crimes of commission via bribery and extortion is a major source of judicial corruption. […]

I’m watching season 2 of Netflix’s Culinary Class Wars and I am envious of the people and judges eating the delicious dishes! 😋
#TV #Netflix #CookingShows

"Common decency still matters... you told us you'd make things more affordable!"
▶️ Judges order Trump administration use contingency funds for SNAP payments during shutdown
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZyDGUAx4cfg&si=RUZo9gHPLHuMJDrW

Texas will now let judges refuse to marry same-sex couples if it goes against their religion - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/10/texas-will-now-let-judges-refuse-to-marry-same-couples-if-it-goes-against-their-religion/

Judges really don't like this detention policy (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/west-wing-playbook-remaking-government/2025/10/31/judges-really-dont-like-this-detention-policy-00631871
http://www.memeorandum.com/251031/p134#a251031p134

Two federal judges require Trump administration tap into emergency funds to partially cover food stamp benefits (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/31/politics/snap-federal-judges
http://www.memeorandum.com/251031/p98#a251031p98

FWIW: Germany had only been a nominal liberal democracy for a dozen years and had a judicial class trained in the system of the Kaiser and Bismarck, no matter what the Weimar Constitution said.
Also: the vilest sorts of anti-semitism had been mainstream German beliefs since before Luther, who was awful. https://

The U.S. attorney’s office in Washington said last week that it would consider,
“when appropriate,”
taking advantage of a judge’s order expanding its power to use local juries to charge serious federal crimes.
A federal judge ruled on Nov. 20
that because of the complexities of local laws in the District of Columbia,
judges in Federal District Court in Washington must accept indictments for federal crimes
that prosecutors secured from a local grand jury.

With Judge's Ruling, a New Tool for Charging Crime in D.C.
The U.S. attorney’s office says it may use local grand juries for serious federal crime in Washington “when appropriate” after a judge signed off on the unusual procedure.

Jack Smith withheld names of GOP lawmakers from judges who granted access to phone records (Josh Christenson/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/12/31/us-news/jack-smith-withheld-names-of-gop-lawmakers-from-judges-who-granted-access-to-phone-records/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251231/p73#a251231p73

Judges in Latin America are struggling to rule on cases of AI-generated images even as courts increasingly adopt AI tools to clear case backlogs (Juliana Bedoya/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/latin-america-judges-ai-crimes/

Courts don’t know what to do about AI crimes
AI-generated images and videos are stumping prosecutors in Latin America, even as courts embrace AI to tackle case backlogs.

There are some pretty cool photos there:
#photography

For This Prestigious Contest, Photographers Capture the Planet's Most Stunning Landscapes
A panel of judges chose three top winners, with the first place award of Landscape Photographer of the Year presented to J. Fritz Rumpf.

Staggering number of judges hammer Trump’s immigration agenda: analysis - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-ice-2674255532/

Two judges rule Trump admin must keep SNAP benefits in place as shutdown drags on (Breanne Deppisch/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/two-judges-rule-trump-admin-must-keep-snap-benefits-place-shutdown-drags
http://www.memeorandum.com/251031/p118#a251031p118

Chen is one of 12
San Francisco immigration court judges who have been fired by the DOJ this year,
leaving a skeleton staff of just nine judges to handle the workload of 21.
None have been replaced, but the Trump administration has advertised open positions, as “deportation judges.”
https://c.im/@cdarwin/11562…

@… I think this something where la Suisse romande really differs from other francophone regions—maybe due to the large number of non-native speakers: nobody judges you for your accent, and if you can say “bonjour,” it’s assumed that you speak French alright.

@… I think this something where la Suisse romande really differs from other francophone regions—maybe due to the large number of non-native speakers: nobody judges you for your accent, and if you can say “bonjour,” it’s assumed that you speak French alright.

"Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US: 'You are effectively blacklisted by much of the world's banking system'"
https://www.lemonde.fr…

Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US: 'You are effectively blacklisted by much of the world's banking system'
Six judges and three prosecutors at the International Criminal Court have been sanctioned by the Trump administration. In an interview with Le Monde, Guillou discusses the impact of these measures on his work and daily life.

Well, it appears there was some very good news on my birthday, when I was too busy involved in celebrations to notice.
#PalestineAction
#RightToProtest

Multi-Agent Debate for LLM Judges with Adaptive Stability Detection
Tianyu Hu, Zhen Tan, Song Wang, Huaizhi Qu, Tianlong Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12697 https://

Multi-Agent Debate for LLM Judges with Adaptive Stability Detection
With advancements in reasoning capabilities, Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly employed for automated judgment tasks. While LLMs-as-Judges offer promise in automating evaluations, current approaches often rely on simplistic aggregation methods (e.g., majority voting), which can fail even when individual agents provide correct answers. To address this, we propose a multi-agent debate judge framework where agents collaboratively reason and iteratively refine their responses. We formal…

13th San Francisco immigration judge fired,
leaving the court decimated
San Francisco’s immigration court,
which started with 21 judges this year,
will soon have just four left
https://missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-immigration-judges-fired-a…

13th S.F. immigration judge fired. Court will soon have just 4 judges left. 
San Francisco’s immigration court will lose three more judges in the coming weeks, two of them to retirement and a third who was fired on Friday.

Trump news: Judges are warning us we’re on the fast track to martial law.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/10/trump-news-judges-warning-martial-law.html

California has lost more than a quarter of its immigration judges this year (Andrea Castillo/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-12-29/california-has-lost-more-than-quarter-of-its-immigration-judges-this-year
http://www.memeorandum.com/251229/p82#a251229p82

All of this *just* happened in two totally separate cases,
so be careful with differing stories about where things stand:
- TRO granted in the Rhode Island case (Judge Jack McConnell), but no written order yet.
- Trump admin was given until Monday to act in the Mass. case (Judge Indira Talwani).
https://

Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social)
NEWS: The Trump admin's decision to suspend SNAP benefits due to the shutdown has been blocked. In two cases, both judges found the government action is likely illegal. Although a judge in Mass gave the admin until Monday to reverse course, a judge in Rhode Island issued a TRO from the bench today. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

@… tfw the judges drop your CVE score

District Judges Fight To Save The Rule Of Law While DOJ And Supreme Court Snicker - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/10/district-judges-fight-to-save-the-rule-of-law-while-doj-and-supreme-court-snicker/

Arses to the judges. That's the way end it. #strictly

You’re allowed to like things even if they are “cringe”, “lame”, “awkward”, “boring”, or “geeky”.
- Sincerely, someone who judges herself way too much for enjoying things (and is working on doing that less).

Judges could rule on the fate of SNAP food aid as deadline nears for shutdown to end payments (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/snap-shutdown-lawsuits-deadline-4af8b0dec6cd31cddd023cc99c131b73
http://www.memeorandum.com/251031/p103#a251031p103

If anybody knows how to convince city leaders and police chiefs that they •can• enforce traffic laws against ICE, or convince ICE officers that they will be prosecuted for their actions, or convince everyone that ICE officers who do not provide proof of identity can legally be treated as unknown assailants and kidnappers, or convince judges that Minneapolis / St. Paul is not “the border,” or…or…or…undo any of these nonsense beliefs, please do that! But it’s the •convincing•, not the being correct, that matters there.

Multiple judges call out DOJ's methods of defending its invasive trans care subpoenas
https://www.lawdork.com/p/judges-doj-actions-trans-care-subpoenas

Putting rum in a porridge jaffle seems destined to win over the judges
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-07/melbourne-woman-wins-porridge-maki…

Australian wins with a jaffle at World Porridge Making Championship
An oatmeal-filled jaffle made by a Melbourne food stylist and flavoured with Bundaberg Rum and bananas wins over judges in Scotland.

More than 100 judges have ruled against the Trump admin's mandatory detention policy (Kyle Cheney/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/31/trump-administration-mandatory-detention-deportation-00632086
http://www.memeorandum.com/251031/p125#a251031p125

Nicolas Guillou cannot shop online.
When he used Expedia to book a hotel in his own country, the reservation was cancelled within hours.
He is “blacklisted by much of the world’s banking system”,
unable to use most bank cards.
Guillou, you see, has been sanctioned by the United States,
putting him on a 15,000-strong list alongside al-Qaida terrorists, drug cartels and Vladimir Putin.
Why?
Because alongside two other judges of the international crimin…

Live updates: Trump administration must fund SNAP payments during the shutdown, judges rule (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-10-31-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251031/p99#a251031p99

Routine hearings turned into deportation trap for migrants | AP News https://apnews.com/article/immigration-courts-deportations-trump-administration-8b9fab5475c0da4c0f13f3381de91448

Routine hearings turned into deportation trap for migrants
The nation's immigration courts have undergone a fundamental change under the administration of President Donald Trump. He pledged to impose hardline immigration policies, an issue that was popular with his voters. In practice, the administration has resorted to unusually aggressive tactics, many of which have played out in immigration courts in the United States. Judges have churned out rulings in an assembly-line like fashion. For many immigrants, the courtrooms have also become deportation t…

Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai is found guilty of colluding with foreign forces to endanger national security and conspiring to publish seditious articles (Kanis Leung/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/hong-kong-jimmy-lai-ve…

Former Hong Kong pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai convicted in landmark national security trial
Jimmy Lai, the former Hong Kong media mogul and outspoken critic of Beijing, has been convicted in a landmark national security trial in the city’s court. Three government-vetted judges on Monday found Lai, 78, guilty of conspiring with others to collude with foreign forces to endanger national security and conspiracy to publish seditious articles. He pleaded not guilty to all charges. Under Hong Kong’s sweeping national security law, Lai could face up to life imprisonment. A mitigation hea…

I’m quite glad to no longer be expected by anyone to “do xmas” except for K, whose expectations are minimal.
For most of my life, I had obligations for “holidays” which I despised. For some years I had to appear at 3 different gatherings of various shards of family and it seems like I always fell short of someone’s expectations.
I’ve finally reached the age where no one judges my lack of holiday spirit. Except on social media.

Judges who ruled against Trump say harassment and threats have changed their lives
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/judges-ruled-trump-say-harassment-threats-changed-lives-rcna248445

MAGA-oriented voices say that they want fearless judges
— but many of them seem really to want judges who will do Trump’s bidding,
Mike Davis, the founder of the Article III Project,
a legal nonprofit that, like the Federalist Society, also espouses originalism,
but is more closely aligned with the MAGA movement, said too many of the Federalist Society’s leaders were “missing in action” during the Biden years,
when Trump faced criminal investigations and a length…

The Federalist Society Is Torn Between Its Legal Philosophy and Trump’s Demands
Guided by Leonard Leo, the society built a pipeline for traditional conservative judges. But that might not be enough for President Trump in his second term.

Topic-Specific Classifiers are Better Relevance Judges than Prompted LLMs
Lukas Gienapp, Martin Potthast, Harrisen Scells, Eugene Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04633 https://

Topic-Specific Classifiers are Better Relevance Judges than Prompted LLMs
The unjudged document problem, where pooled test collections have incomplete relevance judgments for evaluating new retrieval systems, is a key obstacle to the reusability of test collections in information retrieval. While the de facto standard to deal with the problem is to treat unjudged documents as non-relevant, many alternatives have been proposed, including the use of large language models (LLMs) as a relevance judge (LLM-as-a-judge). However, this has been criticized as circular, since …

Jason Proctor is contributing to the CBC's live blog scroll from a legal perspective and as always, his stuff is illumniating. I'll paste his report in because it can get lost in the scroll easily.
"Creditors circle as cull looms
Jason Proctor
I'm Jason Proctor, a reporter with CBC Vancouver who looked into a series of lawsuits facing the owners of Universal Ostrich Farms Inc.
Last month, I spoke with three creditors who are watching today's ruling with great interest — and some skin in the game.
B.C. Supreme Court judges have ordered the farm's owners to repay debts worth more than $250,000 but, up until now, the creditors have been unable to collect. Normally in this kind of situation, a creditor would move to seize the business assets — but because in this case those assets are ostriches caught up in a legal battle, that's been challenging, to say the least.
All three creditors have tried to garnish the CFIA to intercept any money the agency might pay out as compensation for killing the birds (potentially up to $3,000 a bird, the CFIA says) but it remains to be seen how that will work. The creditors, however, told me they are anxious to recoup their losses.”
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/livestory/bc-ostrich-farm-decision-scoc-9.6968394?ts=1762453717737

As judges face more threats, only the Supreme Court gets new security funds (Derek Hawkins/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/11/25/judges-security-funding-congress-supreme-court/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251125/p31#a251125p31

May the supremes reap what they sow... May His Lardass find judges wanting for not offering enough worship. Remember the scorpion's nature will drown all.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/de…

Local community groups? Busting their asses, but they live and die on volunteer support. Legal system? Too slow, too compromised. City, county, state elected officials? Grasping for something they can do. Local police? Useless or worse than useless, of course.
BUT…all the above are formed by, shaped by, and constrained by popular sentiment. An active, defiant citizenry changes how all these institutions behave. Police know, politicians know, and yes, even judges know: they can only stray so far from what people will tolerate.
This active resistance? Hell yeah, it matters. It’s the short-term •and• the long-term.

These Judges Are Warning Us We're on the Fast Track to Martial Law (Slate)
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/10/trump-news-judges-warning-martial-law.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251025/p20#a251025p20

Auto-Prompt Ensemble for LLM Judge
Jiajie Li, Huayi Zhang, Peng Lin, Jinjun Xiong, Wei Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06538 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.06538…

Auto-Prompt Ensemble for LLM Judge
We present a novel framework that improves the reliability of LLM judges by selectively augmenting LLM with auxiliary evaluation dimensions. Existing LLM judges often miss crucial evaluation dimensions because they fail to recognize the implicit standards underlying human assessments. To address this challenge, we propose the Auto-Prompt Ensemble (APE), an adaptive framework that automatically learns evaluation dimensions from its failure cases. APE incorporates a confidence-based ensemble mech…

Who is a Better Matchmaker? Human vs. Algorithmic Judge Assignment in a High-Stakes Startup Competition
Sarina Xi, Orelia Pi, Miaomiao Zhang, Becca Xiong, Jacqueline Ng Lane, Nihar B. Shah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12692

Who is a Better Matchmaker? Human vs. Algorithmic Judge Assignment in a High-Stakes Startup Competition
There is growing interest in applying artificial intelligence (AI) to automate and support complex decision-making tasks. However, it remains unclear how algorithms compare to human judgment in contexts requiring semantic understanding and domain expertise. We examine this in the context of the judge assignment problem, matching submissions to suitably qualified judges. Specifically, we tackled this problem at the Harvard President's Innovation Challenge, the university's premier venture compet…

19-year-old college student deported despite judge's order blocking her removal: Lawyer (Laura Romero/ABC News)
https://abcnews.go.com/US/19-year-college-student-deported-despite-judges-order/story?id=127914941
http://www.memeorandum.com/251127/p40#a251127p40

From #LizOyer @lawyer_oyer@instagram.com
Two #federaljudges have now disqualified Trump’s picks for #USAttorney jobs (in

Instagram launches Rings, an awards program recognizing 25 top creators; the judging panel includes Spike Lee, designer Marc Jacobs, and Adam Mosseri (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital…

Instagram Is Launching Its Own Oscars for Creators: “Rings” (Exclusive)
Spike Lee, Marc Jacobs and Instagram head Adam Mosseri will be among the judges of the Rings program, which will honor the platform's top creators with rings, both physical and digital.

'Breaking point': Distrustful conservative judges turn up the heat on Trump lawyers - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-judges-2674210696/

A US appeals court panel orders the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette to restore striking journalists' benefits from 2017, ruling the paper bargained in bad faith (Megan Swift/TribLIVE.com)
https://triblive.com/local/regional/appellate-court-…

Appellate court panel sides with striking Post-Gazette workers; PG will appeal decision
A federal appeals court panel on Monday ruled in favor of striking journalists at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, possibly heralding an end to a long and bitter labor dispute that led newspaper staffers to walk the picket line for more than three years. The decision by three judges on the U.S.

So mobilizing Texas National Guard for use in Chicago and Portland, while there is no reason according to judges, against the will of those states, is an invasion i think?#Texas #Illinois #Oregon

Judge's Home Happens To Burn Down Day After Stephen Miller Claims Democrat Judges Shield ‘Terrorists’ - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/10/judges-home-happens-to-burn-down-day-after-stephen-miller-claims-democrat-judges-shield-terrorists/

Something has definitely changed in Democratic rhetoric just in the last couple of weeks.
Officials are now suggesting that ICE agents are committing crimes and should be held accountable
— which is very different from simply objecting to a policy shift.
It’s fair to say this is a result not only of the street-level thuggery that has been so apparent,
but the mounting evidence that top Trump officials feel unconstrainedby the law, judges, or any established authorit…

ICE is out of control and beyond repair
This agency needs to be stripped down to the studs. Dems should start preparing now.

Former Raiders Coach Jon Gruden Scores Another Legal Win Over the NFL https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/jon-gruden-legal-win-nevada-case/?adt_ei=[email]

9th Circuit Vacates Trump Judges' Ruling Allowing National Guard Troops To Deploy To Portland (Kate Riga/Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/9th-circuit-portland-vacate-rehear
http://www.memeorandum.com/251028/p150#a251028p150

Alarm sounded as MAGA backs foreign Trump ally's push to target US judges - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/maga-judges-courts-trump/

A federal judge in Illinois temporarily blocks federal officers from using riot control weapons or other force against members of the press and others (Alex Woodward/The Independent)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a

No rubber bullets, no body slamming and no attacking journalists: Judge lays down rules for Trump’s federal agents in Chicago
Judges across US consider lawsuits to block National Guard from supporting Homeland Security in Dem-led states and cities

Evaluating and Mitigating LLM-as-a-judge Bias in Communication Systems
Jiaxin Gao, Chen Chen, Yanwen Jia, Xueluan Gong, Kwok-Yan Lam, Qian Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12462 …

Evaluating and Mitigating LLM-as-a-judge Bias in Communication Systems
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly being used to autonomously evaluate the quality of content in communication systems, e.g., to assess responses in telecom customer support chatbots. However, the impartiality of these AI "judges" is not guaranteed, and any biases in their evaluation criteria could skew outcomes and undermine user trust. In this paper, we systematically investigate judgment biases in two LLM-as-a-judge models (i.e., GPT-Judge and JudgeLM) under the point-wise scoring…

Conservative Warning To Judges: Get On Board With Trump's Agenda Or Get Impeached - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/11/conservative-warning-to-judges-get-on-board-with-trumps-agenda-or-get-impeached/

9th Circuit High #Court Decision By Two #Drumpf Appointee Judges Rejects Lower Court Attempt To Stop #NationalGuard Deployments To #PDX

Appeals court allows Trump's deployment of National Guard in Portland
A federal appeals court ruling on Monday will allow the Trump administration to send National Guard troops into Oregon against the state's wishes, hitting pause on a lower court's order that had barred the deployment.

'On the table': Jim Jordan opens the door to impeaching judges who restrain Trump - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/jim-jordan-table-judges/

The Trump administration faced a string of four significant legal defeats this week
as federal and state courts pushed back on a range of initiatives spanning immigration enforcement,
deportation authority,
voting policy,
and the use of the National Guard.
The rulings, delivered in quick succession, highlight the extent to which judges across multiple jurisdictions are scrutinizing the administration’s procedural compliance,
statutory interpretations,

Donald Trump Suffers Four Legal Setbacks in a Week
A string of four court setbacks this week highlighted growing judicial pushback on Trump’s use of executive power.

Bondi attacks "rogue judges" blocking Trump appointee Halligan
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/08/doj-attacks-judges-halligan-comey-bondi

Instagram launches Rings, an awards program recognizing 25 top creators; the judging panel includes Spike Lee, designer Marc Jacobs, and Adam Mosseri (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital…

Instagram Is Launching Its Own Oscars for Creators: “Rings” (Exclusive)
Spike Lee, Marc Jacobs and Instagram head Adam Mosseri will be among the judges of the Rings program, which will honor the platform's top creators with rings, both physical and digital.

Trump's win streak on Supreme Court emergency docket breaks (Zach Schonfeld/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5657340-supreme-court-immigration-judges-speech-emergency-docket/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p74#a251219p74

Supreme Court judges and federal judges will continue to be paid due to Article III of the U.S. Constitution that specifies
judge’s compensation “shall not be diminished” during their term. 
https://scdailygazette.com/2025/10/03/

Undaunted -- Two judges' inspirational rulings -- Despite the MAGA Supreme Court justices ... (The Contrarian)
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/undaunted-aba
http://www.memeorandum.com/251024/p38#a251024p38

Suddenly, Trump’s effort to rig the 2026 midterms with corrupt gerrymanders appears in trouble.
A panel of judges just blocked the GOP gerrymander in Texas, which had added five seats.
In Indiana, Republicans currently lack the votes to redraw their congressional map.
Trump is angry about all this.
He lashed out at Indiana Republicans, threatening primaries and calling one opponent “weak” and “pathetic.”
So is the scheme dead?
-- No.
Several as…

Trump’s Plot to Rig 2026 Is Falling Apart, and Boy Is He Mad About It
As the Trump-GOP scheme to gerrymander the midterms suddenly faces big new setbacks, a Democratic operative who’s leading in these fights explains why the battle isn’t over—and what must happen now.

Stephen Miller accused of 'incitement to violence against judges' with new 'purge' comment - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/stephen-miller-violence-purge-judges/

DOJ attacks judges for criticizing Halligan appointment (April Rubin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/08/doj-attacks-judges-halligan-comey-bondi
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p58#a251208p58

Alina Habba is one of several U.S. attorneys who have remained in power after their 120-day interim tenures expired.
In each case, the Justice Department has taken extraordinary measures to keep its favored prosecutor in charge.
The fundamental disagreement in Monday’s hearing was over whether those measures were legal.
The stakes are high.
If the judges find that the government had the authority to act as it did in Ms. Habba’s case,
it would give Trump enormo…

Appeals Court Weighs Whether Alina Habba Is Lawful U.S. Attorney
President Trump installed his former personal lawyer as the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey. A legal challenge could clarify the limits of his power to keep U.S. attorneys in office without Senate involvement.

Judges appointed by Trump keep ruling against him. He's not happy about it. (Kyle Cheney/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/06/trump-judges-ruling-against-him-00595511
http://www.memeorandum.com/251006/p153#a251006p153

Appeals court denies Trump administration appeal of National Guard deployment ruling in Illinois (WLS/ABC7)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/7th-circuit-court-appeals-judges-deny-trump-administration-appeal-national-guard-ruling-illinois/18020390/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251016/p162#a251016p162

Inside the Trump administration's unprecedented purge of immigration judges (Priscilla Alvarez/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/politics/immigration-judges-fired-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/251006/p80#a251006p80

New maps that added
five Republican districts in Texas
hit a legal roadblock on Tuesday,
with a federal judge saying
the state cannot use the 2025 maps
because they are probably “racially gerrymandered”.
The decision is likely to be appealed,
given the push for more Republican-friendly congressional maps nationwide
and Donald Trump’s full-court press on his party to make them.
A panel of three federal judges in Texas said in a decision t…

Now Is Not the Time for Federal Judges to Be Removing ICE Skeptics From Jury Selection (Mike Fox/Slate)
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/10/ice-trial-dc-jury-immigration-agents-judge.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251023/p132#a251023p132

Stephen Miller accused of 'incitement to violence against judges' with new 'purge' comment (David McAfee/Raw Story)
https://www.rawstory.com/stephen-miller-violence-purge-judges/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251004/p65#a251004p65

Judges Neomi Rao and Justin Walker of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Friday night
blocked D.C. District Court Chief Judge James Boasberg from beginning his scheduled Alien Enemies Act case contempt proceedings next week.
Judge J. Michelle Childs, a Biden appointee, would not have granted the stay.
The “administrative stay” issued by two Trump appointees on the appeals court after the close of business on Friday blocking Boasberg’s contempt proceedings <…

Breaking: D.C. Circuit's Trump appointees again block Judge Boasberg's contempt inquiry
DOJ keeps going to the D.C. Circuit, where Trump appointees on the court have repeatedly stopped the district court's effort to hold the Trump admin accountable.

Texas seeks Supreme Court order to use a congressional map judges held is likely racially biased (Mark Sherman/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-texas-redistricting-trump-republicans-discrimination-c1bbf88e2a1f7d49cda512b8ef165750
http://www.memeorandum.com/251121/p129#a251121p129

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders - The New York Times
https://archive.ph/Jr17q

Judges lash out at Justice Department for still listing Lindsey Halligan on court documents (CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/12/05/politics/judges-express-frustration-lindsey-halligan-listed-court-documents
http://www.memeorandum.com/251205/p39#a251205p39

Across the nation, prosecutors, judges, and victims are sounding alarms about the impact of Donald Trump's sweeping absolutions.
Families still carrying the consequences of crimes feel disregarded
while offenders celebrate newfound freedom.
And as the list of pardoned individuals grows, so does the fear:
if the rules can change this dramatically under one president, what stops them from changing even more under the next?

10 Terrifying Things To Know About Trump’s “Lax” Pardon Policy
Trump is alienating his base and sparking outrage over his Presidential pardons to convicted drug traffickers and seasoned con men.

Judge's order blocking removal of man from U.S. wasn't received until after he was deported, DHS says
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/judges-order-blocking-removal-man-us-wasnt-received-was-deported-dhs-s-rcna240739

No evidence fire at South Carolina judge's home was arson 'at this time,' law enforcement says (Ryan J. Reilly/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/no-evidence-fire-south-carolina-judges-home-was-arson-law-enforcement-rcna235770
http://www.memeorandum.com/251006/p168#a251006p168

Three liberal justices won another 10-year term on the Pennsylvania supreme court,
giving Democrats a key victory and allowing them to maintain their 5-2 advantage on a vital body that could issue important rulings on abortion and voting rights in an important battleground state in the coming years.

Immigration courts thrown into chaos as Trump administration purges dozens of judges - POLITICO
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/06/trump-immigration-court-judge-purges-00679376

Trump administration lawyers must tell two federal courts on Monday
when funding will be restored.
Both judges found fault in the government’s attempt to stop funding benefits during the federal shutdown, now in its second month
https://www.nytimes…

Trump Administration Says It Will Make Partial SNAP Payments This Month: Live Updates

Over nearly nine months,
the lawsuit challenging Trump’s attempt to slash foreign aid funding
has ricocheted around the federal judiciary
but still has not reached a final resolution.
It has been reviewed by 21 judges,
spawned thousands of pages of filings
and lumbered forward
even after the administration dissolved the U.S. Agency for International Development,
the government office responsible for disbursing much of the contested funding.

The Monthslong Legal Battle to Save Foreign Aid
One lawsuit, underway since February, has sought to compel President Trump to honor Congress’s vision for foreign aid. It still has a long way to go.

The US supreme court agreed on Friday to decide the legality of Donald Trump’s executive order to heavily restrict the right to birthright citizenship,
the long-held constitutional principle that individuals born on US soil are automatically United States citizens.
The order was a contentious part of the administration’s bigoted immigration crackdown
– and a step that would transform the interpretation of a 19th-century constitutional provision.
Multiple judges across…

Supreme Court justices like to talk about the Constitution's separation of powers
and how it limits the exercise of official authority.
But Chief Justice John G. Roberts and his conservative colleagues have given no sign so far they will check Donald Trump's one-man governance by executive order.
To the contrary,
the conservative justices have repeatedly ruled for Trump on fast-track appeals
and overturned federal judges who said the president had exceed…

Tariffs and birthright citizenship will test whether Trump's power has limits
The Supreme Court's conservatives have yet to put limits on Trump's broad claims of executive power.

Halligan Continues as U.S. Attorney, Prompting Criticism From Judges (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/us/politics/halligan-us-attorney-judiciary.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6U8.yooD.-QaRF2Jkm4GR&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251205/p84#a251205p84

Live updates: Trump administration says SNAP will be partially funded after judges' rulings (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-11-3-2025?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=6908e45236c292000189047b
http://www.memeorandum.com/251103/p78#a251103p78