Suzanne Monyak
@suzannemonyak.bsky.social
Reporter covering federal courts + justice @ Bloomberg Law. Get in touch: smonyak@bloombergindustry.com, suzannemonyak.59 on Signal
“There’s no BS about her,” said Xiao Wang, a University of Virginia law professor who worked with Judge Ana Reyes in private practice tells @suzannemonyak.bsky.social
Bloomberg Law@bloomberglaw.com · last wk.A Washington federal judge who has recently drawn President Donald Trump’s ire has taken her no-nonsense approach to a dispute with Justice Department officials in a court battle over a community golf course.
President Donald Trump is invoking a familiar legal tactic to justify plans to build a triumphal arch in Washington: claiming the proposed monument is necessary to protect US national security, @suzannemonyak.bsky.social reports news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Trump’s Familiar National Security Argument for Arch Has Limits
President Donald Trump is invoking a familiar legal tactic to justify plans to build a triumphal arch in Washington: claiming the proposed monument is necessary to protect US national security.
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The Justice Department accused Minnesota federal judges of misconduct by speaking to the New York Times about government lawyers violating court orders during the Trump administration’s immigration surge in the state, @suzannemonyak.bsky.social reports news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
DOJ Accuses Minnesota Judges of Misconduct for Media Remarks (2)
The Justice Department accused Minnesota federal judges of misconduct by speaking to the New York Times about government lawyers violating court orders during the Trump administration’s immigration su...
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DOJ’s gutted Civil Rights Division is rebuilding with lawyers steeped in conservative advocacy and Republican politics with a new mission to wage partisan fights and defend gun rights, a @bloomberglaw.com analysis found. With @suzannemonyak.bsky.social: news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Civil Rights Recast Under Trump’s Vision of Justice Department
The Justice Department’s gutted Civil Rights Division is rebuilding with lawyers steeped in conservative advocacy and Republican politics with a new mission to wage partisan fights and defend gun rights, a Bloomberg Law analysis found.
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The Supreme Court’s decision allowing construction to continue on a White House ballroom could hinder legal challenges to President Donald Trump’s other efforts to leave his mark on Washington’s historic landmarks, reports @suzannemonyak.bsky.social news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
High Court’s Ballroom Order Imperils Other Trump Building Cases
The Supreme Court’s decision allowing construction to continue on a White House ballroom could hinder legal challenges to President Donald Trump’s other efforts to leave his mark on Washington’s histo...
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Judges are fielding more requests to enforce preliminary orders against the federal government in President Donald Trump’s second term, as advocates accuse the administration of sidestepping court orders, @suzannemonyak.bsky.social reports news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
President Trump's 9th Circuit appointees have written separately, to agree or disagree with a case outcome, more frequently than other judges, @suzannemonyak.bsky.social reports. The separate opinions aim to “course correct” said fmr 9th Cir Judge Paul Watford news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Trump Picks Flex Rising Influence on Largest US Appeals Court
Trump’s 11 appointees to the 29-seat Ninth District have written separate opinions at a higher rate than their colleagues, with several cited by the Supreme Court in major decisions this year.
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Judge Ross has made public her new apology letter acknowledging her "harmful, offensive, and unprofessional behavior," @suzannemonyak.bsky.social reports Read it here: aboutblaw.com/bl07
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Judge Ross sent her former clerks revised apology letters Thursday, hours after a media report that she sent three-line letters that didn’t address her conduct as ordered by the judiciary, @suzannemonyak.bsky.social reports news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Judge Ross Sent New Apologies to Clerks After First Is Shared
An Atlanta federal judge who had an affair in her chambers sent her former clerks revised apology letters Thursday, hours after a media report that she sent three-line letters that didn’t address her ...
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News: The judge reprimanded by the judiciary for having sex in chambers, in earshot of law clerks, is Judge Eleanor Ross of the Atlanta-based Northern District of Georgia, @bloomberglaw.com has confirmed. w/ @oliviaalafriz.bsky.social & @jacqthomsen.bsky.social news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Eleanor Ross of Atlanta Is Judge Reprimanded for Sex in Chambers
Eleanor Ross is the federal district court judge who was subject to a private reprimand for having sex with a police officer in chambers in earshot of law clerks, according to a person familiar with t...
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A federal district judge engaged in an extramarital affair with a law enforcement officer in chambers, and in earshot of law clerks, a judicial conduct committee found, @suzannemonyak.bsky.social and @jacqthomsen.bsky.social report news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Judge Had Sexual Relationship in Chambers, Judicial Panel Says
A federal district judge engaged in an extramarital affair with a law enforcement officer in chambers, and in earshot of law clerks, a judicial conduct committee found.
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“The friendships I made and the bonds were much, much deeper than, I think, I’m able to form now,” Clarence Thomas said Thursday. “I came of age on that court.” @suzannemonyak.bsky.social reports news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Thomas Reflects on ‘Deeper’ Bonds During Early High Court Tenure
Clarence Thomas misses the justices with whom he served early in his tenure on the US Supreme Court.
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ICYMI: Trump last night announced his picks for vacancies on the 8th and 10th Circuit, as well as district court seats in Texas, Pennsylvania, and Michigan. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/... @jacqthomsen.bsky.social @suzannemonyak.bsky.social
Trump Plans to Tap First-Term Judge Picks for Appeals Courts (1)
President Donald Trump announced plans to nominate two of his first term judicial picks to be federal appellate judges.
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Chief Justice John Roberts says Supreme Court arguments are going too long and are "maybe not as focused as usual." He suggested the court may look at reining them in a bit over the summer break. (via @suzannemonyak.bsky.social) news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Roberts Hints at Changes to ‘Too Long’ Supreme Court Arguments
Chief Justice John Roberts lamented that Supreme Court arguments are dragging on and previewed possible changes to the format for questioning attorneys.
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“The purpose, I think, is to diminish or destroy that trust in the judiciary, and in the rule of law, and thereby to pressure judges to rule for the administration, which is undermining judicial independence,” Judge Bates said, reports @suzannemonyak.bsky.social news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Judge Decries Executive Branch’s Personal Attacks on Judiciary
A veteran Washington federal judge condemned verbal attacks on the judiciary by members of Congress and executive branch leaders, warning the rhetoric undermines the courts’ independence.
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Bloomberg Law@bloomberglaw.com · 6mo agoFederal courts, already fielding a deluge of requests to free adults from immigration jails, are now hearing pleas from a more vulnerable population: migrant children detained by immigration authorities without their parents.
DOJ officials accused a nonprofit challenging Trump’s White House ballroom project of suffering from “Trump Derangement Syndrome” in a court filing containing multiple randomly capitalized words and exclamation points, @suzannemonyak.bsky.social reports news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
DOJ Cites ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ in Ballroom Lawsuit Brief
Justice Department officials accused the nonprofit challenging President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom project of suffering from “Trump Derangement Syndrome” in a court filing containing multipl...
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The Trump admin was back in court today facing a skeptical Judge Richard Leon, as DOJ defended Trump’s authority to construct a massive White House ballroom. DOJ’s position “takes some brazen interpretation of the laws of vocabulary,” Leon said. New: news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Judge Skeptical of Trump Power to Build White House Ballroom
A federal judge appeared skeptical that President Donald Trump may build a 90,000-square-foot ballroom at the White House after demolishing the East Wing to make way for it, criticizing the government...
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New: ACS's new president Phil Brest hopes to rebuild a group some say has waned in relevance. He doesn't have all the answers right now, but he doesn't need reminders of what's facing the progressive network founded to counter the conservative legal movement. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Left Wing Answer to the Federalist Society Is Trying to Rebuild
There are skeptics who say the American Constitution Society has long been resistant to change and that the legal left is overly fixated on anti-Trumpism. Phil Brest is hopeful the group not only help...
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Trump has tapped more graduates from George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School to be judges in his second term than from any other law school in the nation, @suzannemonyak.bsky.social and @jacqthomsen.bsky.social report news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Retired MA federal Judge Mark Wolf created a stressful culture in chambers, including by yelling and throwing papers, some former staff told me. Wolf resigned last year to speak freely about Trump's "assault on the rule of law" after decades on the bench. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Ex-Judge Wolf’s Staff Describe Walking on Eggshells in Chambers
Former Massachusetts federal Judge Mark Wolf, who said he stepped down from the bench last year to freely raise concerns about President Donald Trump, created a stressful culture for his chambers staf...
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The Supreme Court is siding with President Donald Trump 75% of the time when challenges arrive via the emergency docket, a Bloomberg Law analysis found by @jacqthomsen.bsky.social and @suzannemonyak.bsky.social found news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Trump Reigns Supreme in High Court Emergency Docket Decisions
The Supreme Court is siding overwhelmingly with President Donald Trump when challenges arrive via the emergency docket, a Bloomberg Law analysis found.
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“Something got fouled up”: Congress tacked on an extra $30 million for security for Supreme Court justices in an unrelated spending bill following a last-minute request from court officials. w/ @suzannemonyak.bsky.social news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Supreme Court Gets Last-Minute $30M Boost for Justices’ Security
Congressional spending leaders tacked on an extra $30 million for security for US Supreme Court justices in an unrelated spending bill following a last-minute request from court officials, boosting re...
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Tennessee man pleads guilty to stealing credentials to access the Supreme Court’s electronic filing system and posting screenshots on an Instagram account under the handle “@ihackedthegovernment,” @suzannemonyak.bsky.social reports news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Tennessee Man Pleads Guilty to Hacking Supreme Court System (1)
A Tennessee man has pleaded guilty to computer fraud after prosecutors said he stole credentials to access the Supreme Court’s electronic filing system and posted screenshots to an Instagram account.
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The Justice Department sent letters to former employees with the Community Relations Service and Access to Justice offices on Friday rescinding the earlier reduction-in-force notices, @suzannemonyak.bsky.social reports news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
DOJ Reverses Firings at Peacemakers, Access to Justice Units
The Justice Department is reinstating employees from two offices focused on conflict resolution and access to justice, several months after terminating those federal workers as part of a broader restr...
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A Virginia man pleaded not guilty to planting explosive devices near political committee offices the day before the US Capitol riot.
Jan. 6 Pipe Bomb Suspect Pleads Not Guilty to Explosives Charges
A Virginia man pleaded not guilty to planting explosive devices near political committee offices the day before the US Capitol riot.
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Congressional spending leaders agreed to restore funding for the Justice Department’s dismantled “peacemakers” office and pour money into grant programs targeted by Trump’s administration, @suzannemonyak.bsky.social reports: news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Spending Deal Revives Funds to DOJ ‘Peacemakers’ Office, Grants
Congressional spending leaders agreed to restore funding for the Justice Department’s dismantled “peacemakers” office and pour money into grant programs targeted by President Donald Trump’s administra...
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The Trump administration’s move to deploy US Marshals Service officers for immigration enforcement and local crime operations has worsened staffing shortages at the agency tasked with protecting federal judges, @suzannemonyak.bsky.social reports news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
US Marshals Deployments Strain Court Resources as Threats Rise
The Trump administration’s move to deploy US Marshals Service officers for immigration enforcement and local crime operations has worsened staffing shortages at the agency tasked with protecting feder...
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“A federal judge should not by his public conduct engage in what the public will reasonably understand as a sign of political support,” NYU legal ethics professor Stephen Gillers tells @suzannemonyak.bsky.social about Emil Bove attending Trump's speech Tuesday news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Emil Bove Attends Trump Rally in Rare Move for Federal Judge
Emil Bove, a top Trump Justice Department official turned federal appeals court judge, attended a campaign-style presidential rally in Pennsylvania in a highly unusual move for a sitting judge.
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The Trump administration is considering demolishing four historic Washington buildings, including those that housed HUD and Voice of America, a former government official alleged in a declaration, @suzannemonyak.bsky.social reports news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Trump Eyeing Federal Buildings for Demolition, Ex-Official Says
The Trump administration is considering demolishing four historic Washington buildings, including those that housed the Department of Housing and Urban Development and Voice of America, a former gover...
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