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Margot Cleveland
@ProfMJCleveland
Senior Legal Correspondent @FDRLST, Of Counsel @NCLALegal, ~25 yrs 7thCir law clerk, former full-time univ. faculty, Catholic conservative, wife to DH/mom to DS
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Feb 20 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
🚨🚨🚨Court grants motion to enforce TRO in favor of Plaintiff NGOs who are complaining grants were improperly withheld but reuses to hold Trump Administration in contempt. The order is incomprehensible. 1/ 2/ On the one hand you can terminate grants. . . on the other hand you can't. Image
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Feb 20 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: Court denies TRO and Preliminary Injunction. 2/ Thoughts to follow. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
Feb 20 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
🚨BREAKING: Government files response in opposition to NGOs motion to enforce TRO & hold Trump Administration in contempt. THREAD below explains more about the case & last night's emergency motion for contempt. Read that first (along with sub-thread). 1/ 2/ Here's full response: Comments to follow. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
Feb 20 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
🚨BREAKING: Trump Administration files response in opposition to TRO in case summarized below. Hearing set for this afternoon. 1/ 2/ Here's link: Highlights to follow.storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
Feb 20 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
🚨AFL-CIO filed Motion for Expedited Discovery seeking details of inner-workings. However, whether AFL-CIO has a claim rests on legal question & not factual question so watch Trump oppose & file Motion to Dismiss for lack of jurisdiction (no standing). 1/ 2/ Here's court's decision denying TRO, which highlights underlying legal issue. Facts obtained through discovery won't change legal question of whether DOGE can assign folks to agencies. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
Feb 19 • 18 tweets • 7 min read
🧵Toothless TROs. . . 1/ 2/ As I wrote earlier this week: Image
Feb 19 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
🚨🚨BREAKING: Doe Plaintiffs (USAID contractors), file termination notice that DESTROYS their legal claims presented in the case below, namely Appointment Clause & Separation of Powers. 1/ 2/ Here's link to termination notice: Of relevance, note that the termination notice expressly quotes the authority held to fire these USAID workers & the terms under which they can be fire. And note the name on the letter--it ain't @elonmusk. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
Feb 19 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
🚨New briefs filed by both Dellinger and Bessent (Trump Admin.) 1/ 2/ Here's Dellinger's Response: supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/2…
Feb 18 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: Court enters order ruling on Motion for TRO. 1/ 2/ Order here, summary to follow: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
Feb 18 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
🚨Hearing should be starting soon. Notes following. 1/ 2/ Finally got in: Judge asking whether parties considered whether resolving on expedited merits basis as some of colleagues have done.
Feb 18 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: FINALLY, Trump Administration files sworn Declaration explaining what authority @elonmusk has and doesn't have! Relevant to this case below b/c Blue State Plaintiffs are arguing Musk is making decisions. 1/ Image
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Feb 17 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
So, . . . been buried today in my own legal briefing rush & only now taking a breather to regroup so I can explain this better: Below is basically play-by-play of the argument. Judge expressed great concern that there was nothing "imminent" necessitating TRO. Blue States 1/ 2/ in my view utterly failed to show what was imminent that could not be fixed later, which is what a TRO is for. Cutting grants can be cured. Firing folks can be undone. Judge also seemed concerned that access to info wasn't the issue--but the cuts & firings.
Feb 17 • 9 tweets • 6 min read
🚨🚨🚨Hearing starting momentarily, will try to live post: 1/ 2/ Full docket: courtlistener.com/docket/6963865…
Feb 17 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
🚨🚨🚨New lawsuit docket on Thursday but with technical mistake so corrected complaint only accepted for filing yesterday. Lawsuit by 26 John or Jane Does who are employees or contractors for USAID suing Musk & DOGE alleging 2 counts. 1/ 2/ Count 1 is an Appointments Clause count and count 2 a separation of powers count. Appointments Clause claim mirrors one up for consideration tomorrow in D.C. D.Ct. 👀@fdrlst tomorrow where I explain why that claim is fatally flaws.
Feb 16 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: As I predicted, the Trump Administration is vacatur & immediate stay from SCOTUS in case ordering reinstatement of Dellinger--whom Trump fired as Special Counsel. 1/ 2/ Full filing documentcloud.org/documents/2553…
Feb 15 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
🚨BREAKING: Blue states file proposed Order following Friday hearing on Temporary Restraining Order before Judge Chutkan (Obama). That she ordered states to submit revised order suggests she intends to enter it. Scope is crazy! 1/ 2/ Full proposed order. That court it to be filed on Saturday suggest is will be entered over weekend. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
Feb 14 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: Court enters TRO against Trump administration enjoining enforcement of funding cut for child mutilating & chemical sterilization "hospitals". Also, enjoins so-called "redefining" of "female genital mutilation" 1/ Image 2/ Full order: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
Feb 14 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: Judge is hearing argument on this right now and 🔥🔥🔥against Plaintiffs' attorneys. Judge is stressing relief is getting back in job for 30 days since Trump can fire for cause. 1/ 2/ Judge is ripping him a new one!!! With # of TROs for judges & clerks dealing with. . . . you filed this now!! "I have no problem addressing a PI," she said we are on Rule 11 territory especially since comparing to Dellinger case. Would you like to w/d TRO & Gov't Rule 11 sanction request.
Feb 14 • 17 tweets • 6 min read
🧵Folks, I'm reposting this THREADETTE from last night (and adding a new one here) because most reporting is announcing Judge barred Trump from freezing grants without including the rule-swallowing exception the Court added. 1/ 2/ So here's what Court enjoined, saying Trump Administration could NOT freeze, suspend, blah, blah, blah funding, grants, etc. Big deal, right? Constitutionally speaking it is, but practically? Let's continue. Image
Feb 14 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
THREADETTE: Folks, I know this ever-growing list of cases brought by those seeking to thwart Trump Administration's agenda seems daunting & watching federal judges enter TROs prohibiting implementation of policies is disheartening, but these case are all on fast track. 1/ 2/ Because Plaintiffs are all seeking injunctions, Trump will be able to appeal preliminary injunctions immediately. Such appeals are expedited & so the America First agenda will not be tied up in courts for long. ALSO, most of TROs entered have major flaws making them ripe
Feb 13 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
🚨BREAKING: Trump Administration dismissed this appeal. Dismissal makes sense b/c lower court judge yesterday entered an order that basically walked back his unconstitutional TRO & acknowledged Trump Administration could do what it was doing re canceling grants. 1/ 2/ Motion to Dismiss appeal: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…