""DC Circuit likely to reject Peter Navarro's contempt appeal on broad executive privilege theory; The Justice Department declined to defend the conviction on Thursday, simply stating its position had changed from the Biden administration": Ryan Knappenberger of Courthouse News Service has this report. "Amul Thapar Desperately Wants to Be a Trump Supreme Court Justice; How do ambitious appeals court judges get the White House to notice them? Invent a new legal theory that just so happens to align with Trump's anti-immigrant agenda." Madiba K. Dennie has this essay online at Balls and Strikes."
""SCOTUSblog Falls Into the MAGA Orbit": Jonathan Zasloff recently had this post at the "LegalPlanet" blog. "New Judges Take Charge of Sept. 11 Case at Guantánamo; The long-running case had been on hold for nearly a year because of higher court appeals and the retirement of the military judge": Carol Rosenberg of The New York Times has this report. "Luigi Mangione faces uphill battle after marathon evidence hearing; 'I think the evidence comes in from the backpack,' a former Brooklyn prosecutor said; 'In a murder case like this, if there is any legal basis to allow that evidence in, a judge is going to find it'": Erik Uebelacker of Courthouse News Service has this report."
Multiple appellate and trial developments span executive-privilege litigation, judicial ambitions, and high-profile criminal and national-security cases. The DC Circuit is poised to reject Peter Navarro's contempt appeal while the Justice Department declined to defend the conviction citing a changed position. An appeals court judge is promoting novel legal theories tied to political priorities as part of an effort to secure a Supreme Court nomination. New military judges resumed a long-delayed Guantánamo Sept. 11 case after a yearlong hold. A Brooklyn murder defendant faces contested backpack evidence after a marathon hearing. TikTok formalized investor commitments with Oracle and two firms to avoid a U.S. ban. A federal judge posted an opinion video about judges being doxxed.
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