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#BREAKING: #SCOTUS agrees to take up three separate disputes over the validity of New York grand-jury and congressional subpoenas for @realDonaldTrump's personal financial records. Cases will be argued in March and resolved by the end of its current Term (June 2020).
@realDonaldTrump Here's the order:

supremecourt.gov/orders/courtor…
It’s really important not to read too much into the fact that #SCOTUS is taking these cases. Historically, these are cases the Justices feel compelled to take up out of deference to the presidency even when they ultimately rule against the President (see Nixon; Clinton v. Jones).
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Steve Vladeck
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To me, the most important takeaway from today's Fifth Circuit #ACA ruling is that #SCOTUS is off the hook, at least for now.

Yes, the court struck down the "individual mandate." But the real question (whether the rest of the ACA must fall) got kicked back to the district court.
It's entirely possible that we're right back in this same place a year from now, if the district court reaffirms its ... controversial ... severability analysis and this same panel affirms. But this issue could look very different to #SCOTUS in early 2021 than it would look now.
And so long as the rest of the ACA isn't going anywhere in the interim (which, for now, it isn't), there's just no imperative for the Justices to step in now. So even though California (et al.) may ask #SCOTUS to take the case, I'd be shocked if the Court agreed—at least for now.
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Steve Vladeck
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In the first-ever case about detention under section 412 of the USA PATRIOT Act, Judge Wolford has ordered an evidentiary hearing into the government’s factual and legal basis for subjecting Adham Hassoun’s to potentially indefinite immigration detention:

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Steve Vladeck
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In 2014, in response to what we’d learned from @Snowden’s leaks and elsewhere, Senator Leahy proposed a carefully crafted bill to meaningfully bolster oversight and accountability for #FISA surveillance. It received 58 votes in the Senate—two short of what it needed for cloture.
Four Republicans voted in favor of the bill: Senators Cruz, Heller, Lee, and Murkowski. The other 41 Republicans—including @LindseyGrahamSC—voted against the reforms, even though the White House had signaled its acquiescence in the reform proposals:

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Perhaps many of those same Senators have now seen the light, and are willing today to embrace reforms the likes of which Senator Leahy proposed five years ago. But until that actually happens, consider me more than a little skeptical that today’s #FISA hand-wringing is serious.
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Chris Geidner
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#SCOTUS agrees to take up Trump's attempts to keep New York and the House from getting his financial records, as well as two other cases.
The March arguments are quick, but still represent a delay for the House, especially since the decision won't likely come until June at that point. #SCOTUS, if it wanted to do so, could have resolved the cases much more quickly.
(In addition to not needing to take up the cases at all, which was another entirely possible option given that no courts below have sided with Trump.)
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Zoe Tillman
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BREAKING: The 2nd Circuit will not block a NY grand jury subpoena to Trump's accounting firm, finding Trump isn't likely to win arguing that any presidential immunity extends to something like this state grand jury investigation assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6538…
NOW: A federal appeals court will not block a grand jury subpoena for Trump's tax returns, rejecting Trump's argument that any "presidential immunity" that might shield him from criminal prosecution means he can't ever be investigated while in office.
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The 2nd Circuit made clear it was not deciding if a sitting president might be immune against some criminal process. But if such immunity exists, it doesn't apply to a grand jury subpoena for private financial docs unrelated to his duties, the court held
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#SCOTUS keeps veil over much of mystery company's grand jury fight believed linked to Mueller, but there are some new nuggets.... politico.com/story/2019/01/…
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#SCOTUS grants no new cases in today’s orders. Here are the orders: supremecourt.gov/orders/courtor…
The court did GVR 2 cases—grant, vacate, & remand—asking lower courts to reconsider a ruling in a case in light of a recent #SCOTUS decision. While the one GVR is based off of a decision issued last week, the Fleck GVR follows several conferences & the Janus decision from June.
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#BREAKING BADABOUM genre j'ai 1 paquet de copies à finir et ils me balancent ça 1 #dimanche...#Stone, le conseiller de l'ombre/visiteur du soir de #Trump, avoue qu'il a rencontré 1 Russe en 2016 lui ayant offert des infos sales sur #Clinton... washingtonpost.com/politics/trump…
2) #Breaking...Alors, déjà, il y a plein de choses à dire.D'1 part, #Stone affirmait jusqu'alors qu'il n'eut jamais de contact avec 1 Russe durant la campagne 2016 alors qu'il était 1"homme de l'ombre" de #Trump...et il l'a répété au comité du renseignement de la Chambre. Gênant.
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