Jacqueline Thomsen

July 08, 2020 | National Law Journal

"I'm really unpersuaded by your argument about manipulation here," U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss told a DOJ attorney. "I'm baffled by it, given what the department has done here."

By Jacqueline Thomsen

4 minute read

July 07, 2020 | National Law Journal

"Precluding public access because of the personnel-hours required to produce those records is no more warranted than precluding public access to high-profile trials because of the costs of crowd control," the court ruled.

By Jacqueline Thomsen

4 minute read

July 06, 2020 | The Recorder

Judge Eric Miller, confirmed to the Ninth Circuit last year, wrote separately to say Trump officials' reasons for adopting an asylum restriction "is contradicted by the agencies' own record."

By Jacqueline Thomsen

6 minute read

July 02, 2020 | Law.com

Sen. Cory Booker said that under former President Barack Obama, there was a significantly higher percentage of judicial nominees of color and female jurists than under Trump.

By Jacqueline Thomsen

11 minute read

July 01, 2020 | National Law Journal

It's the latest clash between the immigration judges' union and the Justice Department, after DOJ officials pushed to decertify the union.

By Jacqueline Thomsen

3 minute read

July 01, 2020 | National Law Journal

U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly panned DOJ attorneys for leaning heavily on a single newspaper article in arguing the asylum restriction was exempt from rulemaking procedures.

By Jacqueline Thomsen

4 minute read

June 30, 2020 | National Law Journal

Sen. Lindsey Graham said an election year, with no knowledge of which party will next get to choose judicial nominees, might be the best time to create new judgeships "because nobody knows the outcome and we all know we need more judges."

By Jacqueline Thomsen

4 minute read

June 30, 2020 | National Law Journal

Female attorneys like Loretta Lynch and Jeannie Rhee of Paul Weiss and Beth Brinkmann with Covington & Burling are filing amicus briefs in a Democratic lawsuit seeking to force the addition of the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution.

By Jacqueline Thomsen

10 minute read

June 29, 2020 | National Law Journal

"[T]he court has been forced to address his repeated attempts to intimidate, and to stoke potentially violent sentiment against, an array of participants in the case, including individuals involved in the investigation, the jurors, and the court," U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson wrote.

By Jacqueline Thomsen

6 minute read

June 29, 2020 | National Law Journal

Legal conservatives point to recent rulings on DACA, LGBTQ rights and abortion to argue that, despite President Trump's best efforts, not enough has been done to shift the Supreme Court in their favor.

By Jacqueline Thomsen

7 minute read