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Jordan Fischer
@JordanOnRecord
Senior reporter at @BLaw covering the Supreme Court. Previously, courts & investigations at @WUSA9. Hot sauce enthusiast. Opinions my own.
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Jul 11 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Back in Greenbelt this morning to see if the Trump administration will agree to a 48-hour "pause" if Kilmar Abrego Garcia does in fact enter ICE custody next week.

Since that seems unlikely, expect more arguments ahead. wusa9.com/article/news/d… Judge Xinis is fed up with the DOJ, which has so far failed to produce Abrego Garcia's immigration detainer as ordered. She's not going to take their word that it exists.

Xinis: "From day one you have taken the presumption of regularity and you’ve destroyed it, in my view.”
Mar 17 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
STARTING SOON: The Justice Department will argue the Trump administration did not violate a court order over the weekend by deporting alleged Venezuelan gang members under an invocation of the Alien Enemies Act. wusa9.com/article/news/n… Chief Judge James Boasberg: "I've called today's hearing solely to perform fact-finding about the government's compliance with my order."
Feb 18 • 27 tweets • 5 min read
This hearing has gotten a slow start as Judge Reyes presses both sides to establish some agreed facts. For one, she asks DOJ attorney if the plaintiffs are all fit to serve:

“We don’t dispute that they are all physically and mentally fit to serve under the current policy.” Judge Reyes: "If we had President Trump here right now, and I asked, ‘Is this a transgender ban?’ What do you think he would say?”

DOJ attorney Jason Lynch: "I have no idea your honor."

Reyes: “I do. He’d say, ‘Of course it is.’ Because he calls it a transgender ban.”
Feb 7 • 16 tweets • 2 min read
Changing gears a bit, at 3 p.m. there's now a hearing on a lawsuit filed last night by the foreign service workers union seeking to halt the Trump administration's wholesale dismantling of USAID, which they say has generated a "global humanitarian crisis." Image The hearing is getting started. On the government's side is Brett Schumate, the acting assistant attorney general heading up the DOJ's Civil Division.
Jan 21 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Trump's order pardoned people *convicted* of crimes related to Jan. 6.

Defendants still awaiting trial or sentencing -- the vast majority at the jail -- have not been pardoned. Trump ordered their cases dismissed. That's not going to happen at 11 p.m. on a federal holiday. The two people apparently released from the jail tonight, the Valentin brothers of Pennsylvania, were sentenced on Friday. Thus, pardoned and released. wusa9.com/article/news/n…
Jan 10 • 22 tweets • 3 min read
STARTING NOW: Rudy Giuliani is back in federal court in D.C. as a judge hears arguments about whether he should be held in contempt for allegedly resuming defamatory statements against two former Georgia election workers. wusa9.com/article/news/p… Judge Beryl A. Howell starts off by saying she'd hoped, after sitting through the civil trial and agreeing to a consent agreement, Giuliani would "stop saying such fabricated lies. Especially publicly."
Aug 21, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
BREAKING: In an apparent first, the DOJ says it will GO TO TRIAL on the newly narrowed Jan. 6 obstruction count.

Federal prosecutors say they believe their case against an Ohio couple can hold up even after the Supreme Court's ruling. wusa9.com/article/news/n… The DOJ says it will prove Donald & Shawndale Chilcoat intended to obstruct Congress and "critically, they were aware that his proceeding involved records, documents, or other things — specifically the electoral votes that Congress was to consider." wusa9.com/article/news/n…
May 29, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
NEW: I spoke with anti-abortion activist Lauren Handy's attorney about the plans for appeal as she begins serving her 4-year sentence.

They're aiming for acquittal, sure, but also something bigger: A long-awaited chance to get the FACE act before SCOTUS. wusa9.com/article/news/c… Attorneys from the anti-abortion law firm the Thomas More Society hope Handy's case — plus two others in Tennessee and Michigan — will convince SCOTUS to do something it's never done before: hear an appeal on the constitutionality of the FACE Act. wusa9.com/article/news/c…
May 2, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
🚨 SENTENCE: Marine Corps veteran Ryan Nichols sentenced to 63 months (5.25) years in prison and what is, I believe, the largest fine in a Jan. 6 case to date — $200,000 — for assaulting police during the Capitol riot.
wusa9.com/article/news/n… Explaining the fine:

1. Judge Lamberth said Nichols didn't cooperate at all w/ the financial portion of the presentencing investigation.

2. Nichols raised more than $230,000 on a GiveSendGo account titled "Free My Patriot Prisoner." Image
Mar 29, 2024 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
A bit of drama in the dockets of brothers and Jan. 6 defendants Matthew and Gregory Purdy. Last year, they and their co-defendant, Robert Turner, all decided to fire their lawyers and be represented by a single, new attorney. Judge Lamberth was skeptical but allowed it... Image Then, last month, the new attorney asked for a continuance of their April 22 trial date — noting, among other reasons, that she had applied for a judgeship in Alabama. I was not at the hearing but Judge Lamberth was, I gather, not impressed. Motion denied.
Jan 25, 2024 • 33 tweets • 5 min read
Former Trump WH trade adviser Peter Navarro's sentencing hearing is set to begin shortly. DOJ is seeking 6 months in jail for Navarro defying a subpoena from the January 6th Committee. google.com/amp/s/www.wusa… Like most, Peter Navarro's sentencing hearing begins with arguments over enhancements and credits. Navarro wants 2 levels of credit for acceptance of responsibility. Judge Mehta seems dubious.

Mehta: “I haven’t heard a word of contrition from Dr. Navarro since this case began.”
Dec 12, 2023 • 92 tweets • 14 min read
Rudy Giuliani's civil trial resumes this morning at 9:15 with more of the plaintiffs' case. The plaintiffs are showing a video deposition w/ Mary Frances Watson, a former police lieutenant who was the chief investigator for the Georgia Secretary of State's Investigations Division during the 2020 election.
Dec 11, 2023 • 40 tweets • 6 min read
Rudy Giuliani's civil trial is starting. He's sitting at the defense table with his attorney, Joseph Sibley, as Judge Howell instructs the jury.

She tells them Giuliani has already been found liable for defamation. Their job is only to determine damages. wusa9.com/article/news/n… Judge Howell is instructing the jury on the consequences of his failure to provide discovery. They must assume he:

- Intentionally tried to hide financial information to deflate his worth
- Intentionally tried to hide info about his podcast to deflate the reach of his words
Nov 27, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
I mean, I guess you can play dumb and say it was your law clerk who wrote this so it shouldn't reflect on the sincerity of your client's guilty plea... but Judge Lamberth is the absolute last judge on the D.C. bench I'd want to play that game with in a Jan. 6 case. Image The prosecutor in Ryan Nichols' case predicted this kind of thing and so asked Judge Lamberth to ask Nichols and attorney Joe McBride directly if they were contesting any of the facts in his plea deal.

McBride say there was "no controversy" about them. wusa9.com/article/news/n…
Nov 15, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
John Sullivan took the stand briefly yesterday afternoon. He's set to resume his testimony in earnest at 10:30. Sullivan's contention during his direct examination this morning was that he was a journalist on Jan. 6 who said inflammatory things to blend into the crowd as a way of protecting himself. Direct exam was fairly short, probably less than an hour between yesterday and today.
Oct 16, 2023 • 54 tweets • 7 min read
Back in federal court today, where prosecutors will seek a gag order on Donald Trump. google.com/amp/s/www.wusa… Judge Chutkan is on the bench and the hearing is underway. The DOJ is seeking a gag order limiting Trump and his attorneys from attacking the court, prosecutors and potential witnesses. They also want limits on what Trump can ask in pre-trial polling.
Oct 6, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Popped into the trial this afternoon of ex-sheriff's deputy Ronald Colton McAbee. He's taken the stand in support of his defense theory, which is that seconds after he admits to assaulting one police officer he attempted to help a second. wusa9.com/amp/article/ne… Much of McAbee's defense rests on his efforts later to aid to Rosanne Boyland, who collapsed on the steps leading into the Lower West Terrace Tunnel. He's asking jurors to believe that because he tried to help a fellow rioter, he was also trying to help a downed officer.
Sep 5, 2023 • 61 tweets • 7 min read
The sentencing hearing for former Proud Boys chairman Enrique Tarrio has started. He's in court with a shaved head and dark black beard and wearing an orange jumpsuit. He's sitting w/ his attorneys Sabino Jauregui and Nayib Hassan. Jauregui is arguing, as he did at trial, that Enrique Tarrio wasn't controlling and in fact could not control the Proud Boys on Jan. 6. That he was being a "keyboard ninja" from Baltimore. That he was not in direct communication w/ Ethan Nordean and Joe Biggs.
Sep 1, 2023 • 41 tweets • 8 min read
At 10 a.m. today it's the sentencing hearing for Dominic Pezzola, the Marine Corps veteran and Proud Boy who smashed the window that created the first breach into the Capitol. Prosecutors are seeking 20 years. Image Two other military vets and Proud Boys, Joe Biggs and Zachary Rehl, were sentenced yesterday to 17 and 15 years in prison, respectively.
Aug 31, 2023 • 60 tweets • 9 min read
Former InfoWars employee Joe Biggs will now be the first of a group of Proud Boys leaders sentenced for their role in the Capitol riot. His hearing is set to begin at 10 a.m. google.com/amp/s/www.wusa… It's been a long, strange trip for Joe Biggs — a U.S. Army veteran and Purple Heart recipient who first worked for the conspiracy site InfoWars and then wound up in the Proud Boys, where even other members of the group warned Enrique Tarrio he was too extreme.
Aug 28, 2023 • 33 tweets • 5 min read
Good morning. Donald Trump's attorneys will be back in federal court in D.C. today at 10 a.m. in his election fraud case. What we might get today is a trial date, so stay tuned. Donald Trump's attorneys Todd Blanche, John Lauro and Gregory Singer all appear to be in court and seated at the defense table. There was a modest line to sit in the public gallery, which has now filled in. Prosecutors aren't in court yet.