Jacqueline Thomsen

May 18, 2021 | National Law Journal

"No one could reasonably perceive the 'trial by combat' reference as one inciting the listeners to an immediate violent attack on the Capitol, which could have nothing to do with Giuliani's allegorical 'trial by combat' over evidence of fraud in the election," Giuliani's attorney wrote.

By Jacqueline Thomsen

4 minute read

May 14, 2021 | Law.com

Welcome to Law.com Bench Report! With President Joe Biden now having nominated 20 federal judges, let's take a look back at how his nominees compare to the first 20 put forward by his predecessors Barack Obama and Donald Trump.

By Jacqueline Thomsen

8 minute read

May 12, 2021 | National Law Journal

Senior U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth said Paul Weiss and former partner Alex Oh "should have known better than to impugn another attorney's character without reviewing the entire record."

By Jacqueline Thomsen

6 minute read

May 12, 2021 | National Law Journal

"President Biden has made clear that the days of public defenders being systematically passed over for top jobs on the federal bench are over," said Christopher Kang, chief counsel for the progressive group Demand Justice.

By Jacqueline Thomsen

5 minute read

May 11, 2021 | National Law Journal

The drawn-out suit has forced long delays in other disputes involving House subpoenas, as trial judges awaited a federal appeals court ruling on lawmakers' ability to go to court.

By Jacqueline Thomsen

4 minute read

May 10, 2021 | Law.com

Welcome to our first installment of the Law.com Bench Report weekly briefing, focused on the courts, judges, key cases and more. We hope you enjoy our reporting, and please share feedback! Thank you.

By Jacqueline Thomsen

11 minute read

May 05, 2021 | National Law Journal

"When those of us here and on the Fourth Circuit agreed to go on the Fourth Circuit, we were grateful for that privilege, and we agreed in exchange for that privilege to give up partisan activities. It's simply something—a restriction that we accept, in order to give the public confidence in the judiciary. And much of the same concept is at play in the Hatch Act," one judge said.

By Jacqueline Thomsen

6 minute read

May 04, 2021 | National Law Journal

"The agency's redactions and incomplete explanations obfuscate the true purpose of the memorandum, and the excised portions belie the notion that it fell to the attorney general to make a prosecution decision or that any such decision was on the table at any time," the federal judge wrote of the memo on whether to prosecute Trump over findings in the Mueller report.

By Jacqueline Thomsen

6 minute read

May 04, 2021 | National Law Journal

"From afar, it appears that this is Twitter mob purity butting up against the time-honored tradition of zealous advocacy, that is in fact required by ethical obligations," said one former chair of a Big Law firm.

By Jacqueline Thomsen

7 minute read

May 03, 2021 | National Law Journal

Lawyers with Clare Locke and Susman Godfrey argued that Powell was asking the court to "create unprecedented immunity for attorneys to wage televised disinformation campaigns."

By Jacqueline Thomsen

4 minute read