Suzanne Monyak

Trump has tapped more graduates from George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School to be judges in his second term than from any other law school in the nation, @suzannemonyak.bsky.social and @jacqthomsen.bsky.social report

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Ex-Judge Wolf’s Staff Describe Walking on Eggshells in Chambers Former Massachusetts federal Judge Mark Wolf, who said he stepped down from the bench last year to freely raise concerns about President Donald Trump, created a stressful culture for his chambers staf...

Retired MA federal Judge Mark Wolf created a stressful culture in chambers, including by yelling and throwing papers, some former staff told me.

Wolf resigned last year to speak freely about Trump's "assault on the rule of law" after decades on the bench. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Trump Reigns Supreme in High Court Emergency Docket Decisions The Supreme Court is siding overwhelmingly with President Donald Trump when challenges arrive via the emergency docket, a Bloomberg Law analysis found.

The Supreme Court is siding with President Donald Trump 75% of the time when challenges arrive via the emergency docket, a Bloomberg Law analysis found by @jacqthomsen.bsky.social and @suzannemonyak.bsky.social found

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Supreme Court Gets Last-Minute $30M Boost for Justices’ Security Congressional spending leaders tacked on an extra $30 million for security for US Supreme Court justices in an unrelated spending bill following a last-minute request from court officials, boosting re...

“Something got fouled up”: Congress tacked on an extra $30 million for security for Supreme Court justices in an unrelated spending bill following a last-minute request from court officials. w/ @suzannemonyak.bsky.social news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Tennessee Man Pleads Guilty to Hacking Supreme Court System (1) A Tennessee man has pleaded guilty to computer fraud after prosecutors said he stole credentials to access the Supreme Court’s electronic filing system and posted screenshots to an Instagram account.

Tennessee man pleads guilty to stealing credentials to access the Supreme Court’s electronic filing system and posting screenshots on an Instagram account under the handle “@ihackedthegovernment,” @suzannemonyak.bsky.social reports

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DOJ Reverses Firings at Peacemakers, Access to Justice Units The Justice Department is reinstating employees from two offices focused on conflict resolution and access to justice, several months after terminating those federal workers as part of a broader restr...

The Justice Department sent letters to former employees with the Community Relations Service and Access to Justice offices on Friday rescinding the earlier reduction-in-force notices, @suzannemonyak.bsky.social reports news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Jan. 6 Pipe Bomb Suspect Pleads Not Guilty to Explosives Charges A Virginia man pleaded not guilty to planting explosive devices near political committee offices the day before the US Capitol riot.

A Virginia man pleaded not guilty to planting explosive devices near political committee offices the day before the US Capitol riot.

Spending Deal Revives Funds to DOJ ‘Peacemakers’ Office, Grants Congressional spending leaders agreed to restore funding for the Justice Department’s dismantled “peacemakers” office and pour money into grant programs targeted by President Donald Trump’s administra...

Congressional spending leaders agreed to restore funding for the Justice Department’s dismantled “peacemakers” office and pour money into grant programs targeted by Trump’s administration, @suzannemonyak.bsky.social reports: news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

US Marshals Deployments Strain Court Resources as Threats Rise The Trump administration’s move to deploy US Marshals Service officers for immigration enforcement and local crime operations has worsened staffing shortages at the agency tasked with protecting feder...

The Trump administration’s move to deploy US Marshals Service officers for immigration enforcement and local crime operations has worsened staffing shortages at the agency tasked with protecting federal judges, @suzannemonyak.bsky.social reports

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Emil Bove Attends Trump Rally in Rare Move for Federal Judge Emil Bove, a top Trump Justice Department official turned federal appeals court judge, attended a campaign-style presidential rally in Pennsylvania in a highly unusual move for a sitting judge.

“A federal judge should not by his public conduct engage in what the public will reasonably understand as a sign of political support,” NYU legal ethics professor Stephen Gillers tells @suzannemonyak.bsky.social about Emil Bove attending Trump's speech Tuesday

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Trump Eyeing Federal Buildings for Demolition, Ex-Official Says The Trump administration is considering demolishing four historic Washington buildings, including those that housed the Department of Housing and Urban Development and Voice of America, a former gover...

The Trump administration is considering demolishing four historic Washington buildings, including those that housed HUD and Voice of America, a former government official alleged in a declaration, @suzannemonyak.bsky.social reports

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Litigator Erin Hawley Said to Be Interested in Circuit Judgeship A Trump-appointed trial judge and a senior Justice Department official are included on a White House list of candidates interviewing for a federal appeals court seat in Missouri, a person familiar wit...

NEW: US District Judge Sarah Pitlyk and Jesus Osete of the DOJ's Civil Rights Division are on a White House list of candidates interviewing for an 8th Circuit seat, per source familiar

Litigator Erin Hawley, Sen. Hawley's spouse, also expressed interest
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Trump Loyalists in DOJ Face Criticism as Judges Expose Blunders Judges’ rebukes this week of blunders by top Justice Department lawyers show the pitfalls of installing President Donald Trump loyalists to their roles, lawyers and scholars said.

“This is what happens when you completely unmoor DOJ from the historical expertise that DOJ possesses,” said Sasha Samberg-Champion, a former appellate lawyer for the Civil Rights Division, tells Celine Castronuovo and @suzannemonyak.bsky.social

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Attorney in Trans Athlete Challenges Tapped by Trump for Bench President Donald Trump plans to tap a litigator behind efforts to prevent transgender athletes from participating in women’s sports to be a federal judge in Indiana.

President Trump plans to tap a litigator behind efforts to prevent transgender athletes from participating in women’s sports to be a federal judge in Indiana, @suzannemonyak.bsky.social reports

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Defender Funding in Stopgap May Still Tee Up Future Shortfall Federal public defenders say the stopgap funding bill ending the US government shutdown will increase their funding and allow millions to be repaid to private defense attorneys but falls short of what...

The stopgap bill to reopen the govt included extra $$ for federal defenders, after funds for court-appointed attorneys ran out in July.

But defenders tell me while they're grateful for the money, it's still not enough to prevent a repeat next year. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Conservatives Take a Victory Lap at Federalist Society Event A Trump administration official had a message for a roomful of conservative lawyers at the Federalist Society’s annual convention, as he and other officials discussed the president’s priorities and ac...

There were few signs of any distance between the Federalist Society and Trump, who’d expressed disappointment earlier this year about advice he’d gotten from the organization on judicial nominations during his first term, @suzannemonyak.bsky.social reports

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DOJ’s No. 2 Official Asks Lawyers to Join ‘War’ Against Judges Todd Blanche, second-in-command at the Justice Department, described a “war” against the federal judiciary and called on young conservative lawyers in the audience to join the fight against so-called ...

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche described a “war” against the federal judiciary at the Federalist Society conference today and called on young conservative lawyers in the audience to join the fight, @suzannemonyak.bsky.social reports

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A trial begins today for the DC man who went viral for throwing a sandwich at a CBP officer in August.

Learn more about the case: bit.ly/3JFee9g

Court Experts Strained by US Funding Lapse Caused by Shutdown Criminal case specialists who aid judiciary-funded defense lawyers are cutting costs and refusing assignments after four months of working without pay, prompting lawyers to request case delays.

Court-appointed specialists who aid defense lawyers are cutting costs & refusing assignments after 4 months of unpaid work.

W/ no end in sight to the shutdown, lawyers are telling courts they can't get the experts their clients need. w/ @maiaspoto.bsky.social news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Texas Senators’ Picks for Federal Judgeships Sent to White House A Kirkland & Ellis partner and a former chief counsel to Sen. Ted Cruz (R) are among recommended judicial nominees Texas’ two Republican senators have sent to the White House, according to multiple pe...

News: The Texas senators have sent recommended picks for federal judgeships to the White House. Among the new names: Erin Nealy Cox is up for a seat in Dallas, local judge Chris Wolfe is tapped for Waco, fed prosecutor Rob Jones for McAllen news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Federal Judge Says Prosecutors Are ‘Personally Adverse’ to Him A Tennessee federal judge accused US prosecutors of “insolence and indifference” after he suggested they impeded an investigation into the attempted murder of his former clerk during a high-profile ca...

A US judge accused prosecutors of “insolence and indifference” after he suggested they impeded an investigation into the attempted murder of his former clerk during a high-profile case and misrepresented his follow-up efforts, @suzannemonyak.bsky.social reports

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Judiciary Funding Lapse Strains Defense Bar as Shutdown Drags On The government shutdown threatens to stress resources for an already strapped criminal defense bar, as the federal judiciary prepares to run out of cash.

The government shutdown threatens to stress resources for an already strapped criminal defense bar, as the federal judiciary prepares to run out of cash, @suzannemonyak.bsky.social reports

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Judges’ Mental Well-Being Gets New Attention as Threats Rise After a day of sentencing criminal defendants, Judge Lee Yeakel made a ritual of replaying each hearing in his head and worry whether he’d gotten them right.

The recent uptick in threats has heightened concerns around well-being and prompted new efforts to address it, including roundtables and support networks for federal judges, steps former judges say are long overdue, @suzannemonyak.bsky.social reports

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Justice Department Loses a Third of Career Leaders Under Trump At least a third of senior career leaders have left the Justice Department since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term, taking with them centuries of combined expertise, according to a Blo...

At least a third of senior career leaders have left the Justice Department since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term, taking with them centuries of combined expertise, according to a Bloomberg Law analysis by @suzannemonyak.bsky.social

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Halligan Sworn In as Top Prosecutor in Eastern Virginia Lindsey Halligan has been sworn in as interim US attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, two days after another conservative lawyer was installed to lead the office in an acting capacity.

News: Trump's planned nominee for US attorney in Eastern VA, Lindsey Halligan, arrives today as interim chief prosecutor. She's sworn in by Bondi to get to work in an office under pressure to indict Tish James. w/ @suzannemonyak.bsky.social news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...

Trump DOJ Said to Unwind Apolitical Civil Rights Career Hiring The Justice Department is consolidating civil rights attorney hiring authority with a handful of Trump-aligned supervisors, departing from practices that were designed to avoid politicization, accordi...

Scoop: Trump DOJ departs from protocols that prevented politicized civil rights hiring to restock a depleted division. At least two new hires were removed or suspended from prior prosecutor jobs while facing complaints. With @suzannemonyak.bsky.social:
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Trump DOJ Said to Unwind Apolitical Civil Rights Career Hiring The Justice Department is consolidating civil rights attorney hiring authority with a handful of Trump-aligned supervisors, departing from practices that were designed to avoid politicization, accordi...

EXCLUSIVE: The Justice Department is consolidating civil rights attorney hiring authority with a handful of supervisors, departing from practices that were designed to avoid politicization, @benjaminpenn.bsky.social and @suzannemonyak.bsky.social report

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Prosecutors Work Overnight in Trump-Directed DC Anti-Crime Surge Federal prosecutors at the Washington US attorney’s office have been required to work overnight shifts and pushed to charge more cases during a Justice Department law enforcement surge.

A rotating group of four assistant US attorneys, a supervisor, and paralegal have had to be on call starting at 5:30 p.m. every night for a 24-hour shift to handle the federal arrest surge, @suzannemonyak.bsky.social and @benjaminpenn.bsky.social report

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DOJ Fires and Reassigns Civil Rights Lawyers as New Hires Arrive The Justice Department civil rights division’s much shrunken career staff is facing new firings, forced reassignments, and demands for summaries of recent work as its leaders hire outside attorneys an...

Exclusive from @suzannemonyak.bsky.social & me on continued upheaval at DOJ civil rights division:
- 2 probationary attorneys fired
- Others forced into sections focused on voter fraud & anti-DEI probes
- AAG Dhillon hires "new class of civil rights warriors"
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DOJ Employee Fired for Throwing Sub Sandwich at Federal Officer The man charged with assault for throwing a sandwich at a federal officer in Washington worked for the Justice Department and has been fired, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced.

Alleged sandwich thrower Sean Charles Dunn is an international affairs specialist with the Office of International Affairs within the department’s criminal division, @suzannemonyak.bsky.social reports.

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