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@kyledcheney
Sep 15, 2023 • 4 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
JUST IN: DOJ sharply rejects Trump's call for Tany Chutkan to recuse from his Washington D.C. criminal case.

They say he's misrepresenting her "factual" and "appropriate" responses to Jan. 6 defendants.

Details TK

documentcloud.org/documents/2397…
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Two examples that Smith's team offers in which judges made comments that did not require recusal?

The Watergate-era trial of H.R. Haldeman and the more recent plea deal of Trump's former NSA Mike Flynn documentcloud.org/documents/2397…

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MORE: Proescutors note that Chutkan has handled dozens of Jan. 6 defendants, many of whom have sought to pin their conduct on Trump. Chutkan's comments about Trump came as she rejected those arguments, they noted, and were rooted in her numerous J6 cases.
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NEW: Prosecutors say there are no legitimate grounds for Judge Chutkan to recuse from Trump's Washington, D.C. criminal case, despite Trump's "cherry-picked" claims.

w/ @joshgerstein

politico.com/news/2023/09/1…

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Mar 21
HAPPENING NOW: Judge Boasberg has taken the bench as he weighs whether to vacate his restraining order on deportations under the Alien Enemies Act.
Boasberg comes in hot: Wants to know why the lawyer who originally argued the case didn't show up to hearing Monday. He says the filings since have used "the kind of intemperate and disrespectful language I’m not used to hearing from the United States."
DOJ lawyer Drew Ensign says he believed Boasberg intended the planes to be turned around when he issued his oral order in court over the wekend: "I understood the intent that you meant that to be effective at that time."

DOJ has since said they didn't view it that way.
Read 12 tweets
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Mar 20
BREAKING: A federal judge in Maryland has just barred DOGE from accessing Social Security systems, saying the group is on a "fishing expedition" that jeopardizes people's personal data.

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NEW: Judge Hollander ruled that DOGE was granted unusual access to non-anonymized social security data and could not identify any basis for that degree of access.

She wants access limited, installed software removed and data taken out of SSA destroyed.

politico.com/news/2025/03/2…Image
MORE: Judge Hollander called it ironic that DOGE demanded anonymity for their staffers but “did not appear to share a privacy concern” for people whose data could be exposed at Social Security. politico.com/news/2025/03/2…Image
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Mar 19
NEWS: An Indian national teaching at Georgetown was arrested by immigration authorities in Rosslyn, Va. Monday.

His lawyers say he's being targeted for his pro-Palestinian views. His U.S. citizen wife's father was a Hamas adviser.

w/ @joshgerstein

politico.com/news/2025/03/1…
Badar Khan Suri has not been charged with any crime, but his lawyer says DHS whisked him to detention Monday night. He's since been trasnferred to a facility in Louisiana. His lawyer compares Suri's plight to Mahmoud Khalil.

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We came across the case earlier today on the federal docket in Va., but the habeas petition was not public. A quick search of Suri's name, though, revealed his Georgetown connection -- as well as numerous articles about his wife, Mapheze Saleh.

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Mar 18
HMMM: So the administration reveals in a new court filing (ordered by Judge Bates) that Amy Gleason was actually hired by HHS as an "expert/consultant" on March 4, just a few days after the White House identified her as the administrator of DOGE. Image
MORE: In an earlier filing, without identifying Gleason by name, HHS identified her as being "detailed" to HHS in February (around time she was IDed as DOGE administrator) They indicate she will remain a DOGE/USDS employee while also working at HHS. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…Image
Importantly, the Trump administration has been identifying Gleason as the administrator in other recent court filings but has not noted she is dual hatted at HHS, which might … limit her bandwidth to run the whole DOGE operation.
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Mar 13
HAPPENING NOW: A judge is sounding off on the Trump administration over effort to mass fire probationary employees, says decision not to submit OPM director Chad Ezell to questioning hide the truth about it.

"That’s a sham," he says, suggesting he might order mass rehiring.
Judge Alsup says he's feeling "misled by the U.S. government" over a representation that fired employees had recourse via MSPB, but now notes that President Trump fired the special counsel and attempted to remove a board member of MSPB, depriving it of quorum.
ALSUP: “It is sad, a sad day, when our government would fire some good employee and say it was based on performance when they know good and well that’s a lie.”
Read 5 tweets
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Mar 12
HAPPENING NOW: Judge Reyes has kicked off a crucial hearing President Trump's effort to ban transgender people from serving in the military. She is beginning by pressing DOJ lawyer on the changes in military policy toward transgender people beginning in 2017.
REYES now wondering how the government intends to define people who "exhibit symptoms of gender dysphoria," which could include all sorts of things -- like depression. "This seems like it opens up the entire scope to basically anything."

DOJ says there is no guidance on this yet
REYES notes that SecDef Hegseth RTed "Transgender troops are disqualified from service without an exemption."

DOJ trying to argue that Hegseth was using "shorthand" and didn't mean it that way. Reyes not buying it: "Explain to me why i should ignore that?"
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