The details of the appeal are unclear, so we'll see if this is an appeal of the entire order, a portion, or if there are other nuances.
MORE: DOJ has asked Judge Cannon to stay parts of her order, saying the national secyrity review is inextricably linked tot he criminal investigation and can't be seaprated. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
MORE: DOJ also says it's urgent that the FBI be permitted to help investigate the empty folders with classification markings to determine what they once held and whether their contents "may have been lost or compromised." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
NEWS: The Justice Department is moving to block Judge CANNON's order, warning of significant national security risks caused by her effort to block the FBI criminal review of the seized documents.
IMPORTANT: ODNI has actually paused its national security risk assessment, citing "uncertainty regarding the bounds of
the Court’s order and its implications for the activities of the FBI." politico.com/news/2022/09/0…
MORE: DOJ says Cannon's analysis essentially conceded that "no potential assertion of executive privilege by Plaintiff could justify preventing the Executive Branch from conducting that review and assessment of the classified records."
DOJ is now moving for Cannon to unseal more details about its filter review process for attorney-client privilege, saying Trump's lawyers are making blanket objections that should be rejected.
DOJ says the filter review process was, by design, "overly inclusive."
MEANWHILE: Over on Truth Social, Trump rails against the DOJ appeal, praising Cannon as "a brilliant and courageous Judge whose words of wisdom rang true throughout our Nation."
UPDATE: Judge Cannon has issued an order asking the parties to consider, in Friday’s filings, DOJ’s views about the 100 classified documents retrieved from Mar-aLago
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HAPPENING NOW: In federal court in MN, DOJ is struggling to articulate why a person following an ICE vehicle — so long as they are obeying traffic laws — can be stopped for "reasonable suspicion" of a crime.
Judge Menendez sharply questioning that contention.
Judge Menendez has not tipped her hand entirely yet but she seems concerned that DOJ provided no firsthand evidence to counter the specific, evidence-backed claims by protesters that they were arrested / seized in retaliation for First Amendment speech.
Under questioning from Menendez, DOJ struggling again to articulate why ICE officers can draw guns on drivers who are following them, so long as those drivers are not breaking traffic laws or posing any other articulable threat.
BREAKING: A day after the Minneapolis shooting, Secretary Noem quietly signed a new policy barring congressional visits to ICE facilities without a week's advance notice.
MORE: DOJ says the batch of 1 million documents it recently unearthed appear to be largely duplicative "but nonetheless still need to undergo a process of processing and deduplication." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
NEW: DOJ says it's barely scratched the surface of the massive trove of Epstein Files, with millions of documents still being reviewed for release even with hundreds of lawyers working on it full-time.
Smith was barred from discussing any nonpublic parts of his classified documents probe by Judge Cannon's order prohibiting DOJ from divulging any nonpublic info about it.
DOJ opted against having a lawyer present for Smith's deposition.
In a late night filing, DOJ says Kilmar Abrego Garcia should be returned to detention because he is subject to laws governing detention during deportation proceedings — and “may seek a bond hearing” before an immigration judge. However … storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
The administration has been arguing in thousands of cases that people in Abrego’s position are not entitled to bond hearings at all — and rather are subject to mandatory detention. Hundreds of judges across the country have ruled that position illegal politico.com/news/2025/11/2…
And DOJ knows, but doesn’t mention here, that the immigration courts are all bound by a recent Board of Immigration Appeals ruling — breaking with decades of precedent — finding that bond hearings are not available to virtually anyone facing deportation proceedings. politico.com/news/2025/09/0…
HAPPENING NOW: Taylor Taranto, a pardoned Jan. 6 defendant who was convicted for bringing weapons to Obama’s neighborhood, has returned to DC and has been roaming Rep. Jamie Raskin’s neighborhood — alarming police.
Today, DOJ asked a judge to immediately re-jail him.
Taranto lives in WA state but drove across the country in recent weeks. He has filmed ominous videos from the Pentagon parking lot and was wandering Raskin’s Takoma Park area at 2am. DOJ says it’s nearly identical conduct to what he was charged for in 2023.
Judge Nichols, who convicted Taranto in a bench trial earlier this year, is weighing whether to detain him immediately for violating his supervised release conditions.