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Trump seeks to reshape judiciary as first nominees face Senate

U.S. President Donald Trump's first batch of judicial nominees since returning to the White House is set to go before a U.S. Senate panel as the Republican looks to further reshape a judiciary whose members have stymied parts of his agenda.

Bloomberg Law News · 1h

Trump’s First Judicial Nominees Have Federalist Society Ties

Donald Trump’s first five judicial nominees of his second term all reported membership in the Federalist Society, as the president condemned the attorney networking organization and its former chairman Leonard Leo for giving him “bad advice” on judicial nominations during his first term.

U.S. News & World Report · 1d

Trump Asks the Supreme Court to Clear the Way for Federal Downsizing Plans

President Donald Trump’s administration has renewed its request for the Supreme Court to clear the way for plans to downsize the federal workforce, while a lawsuit filed by labor unions and cities pro

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MSNBC · 1h

As law firms and clients push back against Trump, he shifts focus to judicial 'vetters'

In cutting off the American Bar Association's access to judicial nominees and attacking the Federalist Society, Trump seeks to become the sole arbiter of judicial quality.

Yahoo · 22h

Law firms that made deal with Trump, see major clients abandon them for firms that stood up to him

Marc Elias, Voting Rights Attorney and Founder of the Democracy Docket and Michael Schmidt, New York Times Investigative Reporter join Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House with reaction to new reporting in the Wall Street Journal which details how many of the same major law firms that made deals with the Trump Administration for pro bono work are now seeing major clients abandon them for firms that stood up to Donald Trump.

The Daily Beast on MSN · 1d

Big Companies Are Running From Law Firms That Caved to Trump

Some of the nation’s top law firms that folded to Donald Trump’s pressure campaign are now facing the fallout. At least 11 major companies are shifting legal work away from firms that struck deals with the Trump administration,

Raw Story on MSN1hOpinion

Trump set off 'huge' war in GOP with public attack on former ally: legal analyst

A war is coming to the Republican Party and it's going to be "huge," "The Nation's" legal analyst, Elie Mystal, wrote in a ...

The Nation2hOpinion

Trump Is Headed to War With the Federalist Society—and It’s Gonna Be Huge

The fight might between the president and the conservative old guard might just be the biggest legal development of Trump’s ...

6hon MSN

Trumpworld turns on Leonard Leo as judicial rift widens

Leonard Leo, once central to shaping Trump’s judicial legacy, is now at odds with the president amid a growing divide over ...

AlterNet on MSN3h

Trump furious at Amy Coney Barrett ahead of big Supreme Court rulings: report

President Donald Trump is reportedly angry with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, his third appointee from his ...

Mediaite on MSN3h

Conservative Legal Superstar John Yoo Declares Trump Would ‘Be in Jail Right Now’ Without The Federalist Society

Conservative legal expert John Yoo rebuked President Donald Trump over his attacks on Leonard Leo and The Federalist Society.

Justice Department curtails ABA role in vetting Trump's judicial nominees

The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday limited the American Bar Association's decades-old role in rating candidates for ...

Raw Story on MSN58m

Experts suspect Clarence Thomas fears Trump will replace him with 'hack'

Speculation abounds as to whether 76-year-old Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas will retire anytime soon, paving the way ...

INTO on MSN3h

Trump admin announces total rejection of American Bar Association for judicial appointments

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, a Trump appointee and mainstay of his administration, wrote a letter last Thursday to the ...

1dOpinion

Trump’s Florida judicial picks spur doubts | Editorial

Two Florida appeals court judges authored strongly pro-Trump opinions shortly before the president nominated them to the ...

The New Republic on MSN9hOpinion

Trump’s War With Leonard Leo Could Expose a Conservative Legal Scam

The former Federalist Society power broker used the president to achieve judicial supremacy. Now all that work could get ...

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