Zoe Tillman
@ZoeTillman
Hello from court. Covering the intersection of law and politics at Bloomberg News. ztillman2 at bloomberg dot net
DC fed judge orders Trump admin to restore, for now, a program it ended dating back to 2013 that allows US immigration courts to appoint legal representatives to help people with serious mental illnesses buff.ly/x3ofNYF
Kicking off the week with an exclamation point: DC federal judge orders Trump admin to restore a public database with info on how the executive branch is allocating money that Congress has appropriated buff.ly/r0uSysO
A federal judge in Manhattan has dismissed a lawsuit brought by President Donald Trump against journalist Bob Woodward and a publishing house over the release of interview recordings from his first term in office bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
DC fed judge entered a prelim. injunction to keep $ flowing to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty for FY25, with a footnote that the rescission package Congress approved today undercut the govt, showing Trump admin understands "the proper procedure for clawing back appropriated…
With the dust settled (for now) after yesterday's whiplash news cycle re: whether Trump will try to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, here's a deep dive into what's going on, what everyone is watching for and what could happen if Trump ultimately does make that move. From…
ICYMI: - immigrants held at Florida "Alligator Alcatraz" detention facility sue for lawyer access buff.ly/YmyMEL0 - advocates sue over escalating arrests at US immigration courts buff.ly/pMtHgXJ
Redaction flub: DOJ inadvertently disclosed that State believed El Salvador had "generally acted consistently" w/ understanding US lacked authority over detainees, but "certain elements" in that govt may not have "gotten the message" or were acting "disingenuously"…
Immigrant advocates are suing to stop what they allege is an unlawful effort by the Trump administration to ramp up arrests of migrants who appear at US immigration courts bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Latest post-SCOTUS action in the birthright citizenship legal fights: MD federal judge handling one of the original cases (CASA) says she'd grant a new, class-wide injunction if/when the 4th Circuit kicks the case back down assets.bwbx.io/documents/user…
DOGE FOIA discovery fight, round 2: Kicked back by SCOTUS with instructions to narrow things, the DC Circuit held the Trump admin still must disclose certain info about DOGE to an advocacy group and make administrator Amy Gleason available to testify bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
A divided US Supreme Court let President Donald Trump resume dismantling the Department of Education, lifting a lower court order that required the reinstatement of as many as 1,400 workers. From Greg Stohr: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Democratic state AGs suing the Trump administration over $6 billion+ in K-12 education funding appropriated by Congress that the states say was supposed to be available 7/1 for the upcoming school year buff.ly/5xRO9Pn
Over govt's opposition, a Virginia federal judge ordered public release of a list of nearly 600 books at least temporarily removed from Dept. of Defense schools to review for compliance with Trump EOs on "gender ideology" and DEI buff.ly/Q9ZEyPG
Trump admin has formally appealed Friday's temp. restraining order from an LA federal judge that bars solely relying on race/language/workplace in immigration raids in her district and requires access to legal counsel for those detained. Earlier story: buff.ly/qTNw8yc…
