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NOW: A federal judge in DC has once again blocked the Trump administration from carrying out federal executions by lethal injection — the first one was scheduled for this afternoon assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6987…
Judge Tanya Chutkan: "...the public is not served by short-circuiting legitimate judicial process, and is greatly served by attempting to ensure that the most serious punishment is imposed in a manner consistent with our Constitution"
Previously on the last-ditch legal effort to stop the Trump admin from resuming federal executions: buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…

Before this morning's order, the execution of Daniel Lewis Lee was scheduled to go ahead at 4pm today after the 7th Circuit rejected a set of challenges.
As expected, the Justice Dept. has immediately appealed this morning's order blocking federal executions from going forward while litigation challenging the new lethal injection protocol continues
STORY: A federal judge once again blocked the Trump administration from resuming federal executions by lethal injection, just hours before a death row inmate was scheduled to die.
buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
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Shortly after 2am, the Supreme Court issued an order that would allow the Trump administration to proceed with the first federal execution since 2003: documentcloud.org/documents/6988…

The order isn't signed (it's per curiam), but Justices Breyer, Ginsburg, Sotomayor, and Kagan dissented. Image
Lawyers for Daniel Lewis Lee, the man scheduled for execution first, immediately went back to the district court to ask for a new injunction on grounds not addressed in yesterday's order (which SCOTUS vacated)

Per that motion, the execution was set for 4am, but no updates yet. Image
It appears there was also some early morning legal wrangling by Lee's lawyers in the 8th Circuit, where he'd been trying to renew ineffective assistance of counsel claims. The court denied Lee's petition for en banc review Image
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court ruled prosecutors in New York can subpoena Trump's tax returns. This is a blow to Trump, who argued for immunity, and DOJ, which argued for a higher standard for this type of subpoena — the majority rejected both arguments. buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
BREAKING PT. II: SCOTUS revived the fight over congressional subpoenas for Trump's records, finding lower courts didn't properly consider separation of powers issues. This kicks it back for more proceedings — so House Dems don't get Trump's records for now
buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
Keep in mind that just because Trump lost the grand jury subpoena case, this does not mean the public will get to see his tax returns — grand jury proceedings remain secret buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
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The judge in Roger Stone's case is taking a close look at his request — which DOJ does not oppose — to delay his surrender date to the Bureau of Prisons. Here are the minute orders detailing what info Judge Amy Berman Jackson wants, incl. a new one she just entered
Taken together, Jackson wants info that gets at whether the way that DOJ and BOP have dealt with Roger Stone so far squares with how they've been handling the surrender and incarceration of federal defendants generally during the COVID-19 pandemic
And this. A thousand times this.
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