BREAKING: Federal judge Robert Payne has just issued a preliminary injunction that blocks Virginia from enforcing its new law that bans ICE agents from wearing masks on the job. Judge Payne writes that VA’s law likely violates the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution by… pic.twitter.com/yHzox7vxkJ
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) June 30, 2026
Deerdude said:
I think that democrats could unmask protesters if they really want to see fewer masked. Just putting that out there.
Jack Squat 83 said:Deerdude said:
I think that democrats could unmask protesters if they really want to see fewer masked. Just putting that out there.
Cone on, keep up. The "good guys" are the protesters and bad guys are the Trump people.
These really are insane times we're living in. These Democrats will really struggle once orange man is gone. Talk about leaving a void in their lives.
STATEMENT:
— Sean Parnell (@SeanParnellASW) June 30, 2026
The Department strongly disagrees with today’s decision. This ruling strips away reasonable security measures and will make it easier for sensitive and classified information to reach our adversaries.
Unescorted access to the Pentagon allowed journalists to observe… pic.twitter.com/r5ZYtvT5UL
Trump’s wins out number the losses, but the losses have been over some of his most extreme policy efforts. Each time, Thomas and Alito have sided with him — and at least one of his appointees hasn’t.
— Gabe Fleisher (@WakeUp2Politics) July 1, 2026
It’s wild to consider the sort of second term Trump could be having if his… pic.twitter.com/svc0XOme71
Also in this morning’s newsletter: a behind-the-scenes look at What Happened to Nina Totenberg https://t.co/E4FkmEuRUj pic.twitter.com/IbEZMFRIFz
— Gabe Fleisher (@WakeUp2Politics) July 1, 2026
will25u said:STATEMENT:
— Sean Parnell (@SeanParnellASW) June 30, 2026
The Department strongly disagrees with today’s decision. This ruling strips away reasonable security measures and will make it easier for sensitive and classified information to reach our adversaries.
Unescorted access to the Pentagon allowed journalists to observe… pic.twitter.com/r5ZYtvT5UL
In anticipation of our nation's 250th birthday, your Dept. of Justice gives you two new lawsuits. One suing Virginia over their assault weapon ban, the other suing California over their Glock ban and handgun roster. Long live the Republic. https://t.co/VxbVUiHdql pic.twitter.com/vkuNwEv3wb
— WashingtonGunLaw (@GunWashington) July 1, 2026
Federal judge blocks President Trump’s executive order requiring states to provide mail-in voter lists before the U.S. Postal Service can deliver ballots, per Fox News.
— Leading Report (@LeadingReport) July 2, 2026
The order doesn't block their firing altogether, but it requires they be given chance to appeal the decision and seek reassignment rather than outright termination. https://t.co/58ei6AIda6
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) July 2, 2026
Here is the opinion from Judge Casey Pitts: https://t.co/yFgB7bojrA
— Chris “Law Dork” Geidner (@chrisgeidner) July 2, 2026
Judge Graves concurs. While the majority picks 90 days rather than 6 months for setting the hearing timeline, Judge Graves would pick 30 days. Judge Graves is one of the most liberal judges on the Fifth Circuit. pic.twitter.com/v0lyKZ6ZJz
— Eric W. (@EWess92) July 2, 2026
Judge Wilson continues in dissent with a warning. Judge Southwick has acknowledged that two of the plaintiffs were not held overly long even on his own test. Habeas was premature. And the result of this decision will be chaos. pic.twitter.com/B44gHV7hLZ
— Eric W. (@EWess92) July 2, 2026
On America 250's eve, a big win for President Trump and @TheJusticeDept at the First Circuit. Even the First Circuit agrees the injunction stopping the President from "Restoring
— Eric W. (@EWess92) July 3, 2026
Truth and Sanity to American History" was improperly issued. It was stayed. Sanity restored! pic.twitter.com/whaictWbbH
will25u said:Here is the opinion from Judge Casey Pitts: https://t.co/yFgB7bojrA
— Chris “Law Dork” Geidner (@chrisgeidner) July 2, 2026
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And because plaintiffs have demonstrated a likelihood of success on their claim that DOJ's efforts, if successful, would infringe upon their constitutional privacy rights, the Court provisionally certifies a class of patients who received gender-affirming care at Packard and grants plaintiffs' request for preliminary injunctive relief as to that class.
I’m shocked that Algenon “I can’t even spell ‘Algernon’ right” Marbley, who rescinded his decision to take senior status after Trump was reelected, ruled against the Trump administration. He shouldn’t have any cases involving the government because of his obvious bias. https://t.co/zEthTMYhVl
— Varad Mehta (@varadmehta) July 6, 2026
"What happens when an alien seeking cancellation of removal raises new issues in her petition for review? No administrative exhaustion generally results in no relief, so we deny it." Judge Stras affirms deportation of Guatemalan illegal convicted of child abuse. pic.twitter.com/GCce3719vd
— Eric W. (@EWess92) July 7, 2026
This is great. Bove disagreed with two of his colleagues after they quickly intervened to halt a deportation proceeding. Turned out, Bove was right; the 2 judges had to acknowledge the case had been filed in the wrong court. He sort of let them have it: pic.twitter.com/aibBoSg084
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) July 7, 2026
🚨 Just weeks after Judge Sparkle Sooknanan vacated the SAVE system's SSN-search and bulk-upload features, a federal judge in Florida ordered the agency to restore those same features, which states use to verify citizenship and immigration status for voter rolls. pic.twitter.com/IbVbcXMnbp
— SCOTUS Wire (@scotus_wire) July 7, 2026
BREAKING: Judge 'Sparkle' Flips Out, Rejects Federal Court Order Dismissing Her Ruling
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) July 8, 2026
Judge Sparkle Sooknanan has refused to pause her ruling that dismantled the Department of Homeland Security's expanded SAVE citizenship verification system, even after a federal judge in… pic.twitter.com/UqL3an1ppS
🚨BREAKING: AFL is taking its census case to the U.S. Supreme Court.
— America First Legal (@America1stLegal) July 8, 2026
AFL filed a Notice of Appeal, invoking SCOTUS’s mandatory jurisdiction and special direct appeal process to review the Middle District of Florida’s order dismissing the case. pic.twitter.com/SSdjmQAoA4
dvldog said:BREAKING: Judge 'Sparkle' Flips Out, Rejects Federal Court Order Dismissing Her Ruling
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) July 8, 2026
Judge Sparkle Sooknanan has refused to pause her ruling that dismantled the Department of Homeland Security's expanded SAVE citizenship verification system, even after a federal judge in… pic.twitter.com/UqL3an1ppS
The Fifth Circuit has held that federal law prevents states from providing in-state tuition benefits to illegal aliens. pic.twitter.com/zLwByj3Yup
— Brett Shumate (@AAGShumate) July 9, 2026
The court held there was never a real Article III "case or controversy" because President Trump, as head of the Executive Branch, controlled the very agencies he sued. Since the IRS and Treasury couldn't litigate contrary to the President's wishes, the parties were never adverse.
— SCOTUS Wire (@scotus_wire) July 13, 2026
Read the order here: https://t.co/ApFQSHKCWe
— SCOTUS Wire (@scotus_wire) July 13, 2026
Lawfare was already dangerous when lawfare activists coopted allies in government agencies and regulatory bodies. But it becomes even more pernicious when TDS afflicted judges are drawn into the same machinery. This is not new, of course. Think Emmet Sullivan or Beryl Howell. But… https://t.co/ZtpyLgDBEC
— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) July 13, 2026
JUST IN: 13th straight rejection of DOJ's legal effort to compel states to turn over their voter rolls.
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) July 13, 2026
George W. Bush-appointed Judge Thomas Johnston wonders what DOJ is really driving at. https://t.co/685ctO06Yl pic.twitter.com/jvohK6yIgI
This nonsense has to end. The State and local bars are not the superior officers of or the equivalent of a school-marmish national Principal's Office that sits in supervision of two highest-ranking leaders of the Justice Department.
— Jeff Clark (@JeffClarkUS) July 13, 2026
No way. It's completely unconstitutional.… https://t.co/nHR4AI7LlJ
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This nonsense has to end. The State and local bars are not the superior officers of or the equivalent of a school-marmish national Principal's Office that sits in supervision of two highest-ranking leaders of the Justice Department.
No way. It's completely unconstitutional.
DOJ has the power to put an end to this nonsense by issuing regulations preempting state/local bar weaponization. It has a proposed rule pending which, with appropriate amendments, are logical outgrowths of the proposal itself, and so could be issued in final form to put an immediate and complete stop to this.
And if Congress were not asleep, it would quickly pass legislation ending this as well.
If this trend continues, no future Republican lawyer is going to agree to enter the U.S. Justice Department to carry out the President's law enforcement orders as the Constitution intended.
Power will instead be monopolized and moved only to the Left. The professional bar processes were never intended to be tools of that massive usurpation of Article II constitutional power.
It's what Norm Eisen wants. But it's not what any rational American citizen should want. And regardless of whether Congress or DOJ act to confirm the requisite preemption of state/local ethics law, the Eleventh Circuit must reverse this abominable decision.
The Framers would be shocked to learn that the real boss of Executive Branch legal power is not the singular President of the United States, but instead committees of insular coastal elite lawyers purporting to wield the meta-power of legal ethics.
It's a constitutional system turned on its head to empower a group of people who should wield, at most, tiny amounts of power to instead lead the whole Executive Branch around by the nose.
I don't think the district court would have entered this order today, on the eve of Acting AG Blanche's judiciary hearing, to jam him up in committee. But the court seemed highly cognizant of the timing in her order. I certainly hope there wasn't an intentional timing there.
— Eric W. (@EWess92) July 13, 2026