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A lot of big legal news has happened in the past 72 hours. Here are the highlights from our @BuzzFeedNews coverage —>
There was an Emoluments Clause lawsuit hearing, and @ZoeTillman was there: buzzfeed.com/zoetillman/tru…
ICE is working with the Bureau of Prisons to use 1,600 of its beds for people it has detained, @aflores and I reported: buzzfeed.com/adolfoflores/u…
A former senior Senate Intel staffer was indicted, charged with lying to federal agents in connection with a leak investigation in which a reporter’s records were seized. @ZoeTillman was on it: buzzfeed.com/zoetillman/a-f…
DOJ is arguing the ACA’s individual mandate is now unconstitutional — and that the law’s other key parts (including the ban on denying coverage for pre-existing conditions) should be struck down as a result. I wrote: buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/o…
On Friday, Mueller revealed a new indictment. @VeraMBergen and I wrote about the obstruction and conspiracy charges that Manafort and Kilimnik (formerly known as “Person A” in the papers) face for alleged witness-tampering: buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/m…
Then, @ZoeTillman had the follow-up: Manafort, in a filing over the conditions of his release pending trial, called the witness-tampering claims “dubious” and an effort to “poison” the jury pool: buzzfeed.com/zoetillman/pau…
Then, @dominicholden continued with his coverage of the ins and outs of the Trump-Sessions relationship with a look at how Trump’s comments that he supports a marijuana bill in Congress are “a real F-you” to Sessions. buzzfeed.com/dominicholden/…
And finally, late last night, DOJ filed a brief in a case challenging DACA — this lawsuit is from opponents of DACA — in which, I wrote, the department laid out a path to force DACA to the Supreme Court as soon as this summer. buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/t…
Ooops: That actually was our coverage from the past 48 hours — not 72 hours, as I initially wrote. 😑 In short, a helluva lot happened on Thursday and Friday, on a lot of different fronts, and I couldn’t be working with a more amazing group of people to cover it all. 😊
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In the grand jury subpoena matter, over the past 24 hours, the Post has reported — washingtonpost.com/politics/court… — that the corporation is "a foreign financial institution" and CNN has reported — cnn.com/2019/01/09/pol… — that lawyers from Alston & Bird have been involved in the case.
Here was my report on what has happened in the run-up to those reports: buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisg…
Incidentally, but I thought it should be noted: One of the lawyers named in the CNN report, Brian Boone, once represented AG nominee (and former AG) William Barr on an amicus brief at SCOTUS in a Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act case. americanbar.org/content/dam/ab…
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BREAKING: Supreme Court denies the foreign country-owned company's request to stay a contempt order resulting from its refusal to comply with a grand jury's subpoena. Chief Justice Roberts' "administrative stay" is vacated, so the result is the contempt order is back in effect.
That order of the court follows this request, made Monday but put on the docket today, to file a cert petition in the case under seal. Not clear what will happen with that now, but the contempt order (and associated fines) will now be back in place.
REDACTED DOCUMENT: Here's the redacted motion at SCOTUS, noted previously, of what appears to be the foreign-owned company seeking to file its petition for certiorari in the grand jury dispute under seal. documentcloud.org/documents/5677…
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In the wake of yesterday's contentious hearing involving Concord in the Russian troll farm case, Concord's lawyers are STILL AT IT, in a new filing that could be one sentence and instead is four pages: documentcloud.org/documents/5677…
Here's @ZoeTillman on yesterday's hearing: buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
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2/ Foreign Emoluments Clause: "No Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under [the US] shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State."
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1/ Today a federal judge in New York dismissed the Emoluments Clause lawsuit brought by @CREWcrew against Trump. nytimes.com/2017/12/21/us/…
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