Seth Stern
@sethstern
Bloomberg Law editor for Supreme Court, federal judiciary, Justice Department and Homeland Security news; author of Speaking Yiddish to Chickens and co-author of Justice Brennan biography; Jonathan Hurtarte photo illustration
Judges are fielding more requests to enforce preliminary orders against the federal government in President Donald Trump’s second term, as advocates accuse the administration of sidestepping court orders, @suzannemonyak.bsky.social reports news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Recommend Peter Canellos' new book, Revenge for the Sixties: Sam Alito and the Triumph of the Conservative Legal Movement. Among other things, I learned Justice Alito loves animals and dislikes the Sopranos
Trump has tapped more graduates from George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School to be judges in his second term than from any other law school in the nation, @suzannemonyak.bsky.social and @jacqthomsen.bsky.social report news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Of the 20 Trump judicial nominees who’ve appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee for confirmation hearings this year, two-thirds were 44 or younger.
Diversity didn’t seem to be a primary concern for President Trump in filling judicial vacancies during his first term, and he hasn’t indicated that would change, @tianaheadley.bsky.social reports news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Judge VanDyke also appears in his video in his unusual gun dissent with what appears to be an AK-47 assault rifle mounted on the wall of his chambers.
This look is based on how Biden’s judicial selections line up should the final two district court nominees get confirmed Friday as scheduled.
Washington-based Judge Thomas Zilly, 90, is older than roughly 88% of federal judges with senior status, according to a Bloomberg Law data analysis of Federal Judicial Center data, Mike Vilensky reports news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/j...