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In case you're looking for it, here is Trump's cert petition in Carroll I, the $83.3M verdict, reportedly filed Tues but not yet docketed. Lead counsel is Robert Giuffra of Sullivan & Cromwell. ... 1/2 www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
Cert Petition-TRUMP
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BREAKING: Justice Department agrees to withdraw subpoenas issued to New York Times reporters in leak investigation related to new Air Force One jet. Withdrawal of subpoenas follows hearing before NY federal judge, who indicated he was inclined to quash the subpoenas.
NEW: Today, Rep. Garcia and Sen. Blumenthal requested DHS Sec Mullin provide info and records related to two recent fatal ICE shootings, incidents which raise questions about whether ICE made promised reforms "and how ICE is using the massive funding that Congress appropriated"
The @nytimes.com has filed a motion to quash the grand jury subpoenas to several of its reporters. The motion was actually filed 7/10 but is still sealed. NYT says it's trying to have it unsealed. Statement of David McCraw, Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel below:
Correction/clarification: NYT now says 5 g.j. subpoenas were prepared, but only 3 have been served. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/b...
Roger Parloff@rparloff.bsky.social · 3w agoThe @nytimes.com has filed a motion to quash the grand jury subpoenas to several of its reporters. The motion was actually filed 7/10 but is still sealed. NYT says it's trying to have it unsealed. Statement of David McCraw, Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel below:
Attys for Reflecting Pool defendant David Hearn say govt witness told govt that photos Hearn took showing damaged liner (published in WaPo, e.g.) were taken *before* he touched the water—drawing into question how he could’ve damaged it. … 1/3
Today in federal court, Mahmoud Khalil sued the Heritage Foundation, Canary Mission, Betar, & senior Trump admin officials under the KKK Act of 1871, alleging they conspired to deprive him of his constitutional rights while carrying out a coordinated plan called "Project Esther."
Judge Kaplan in 2023: "The proof convincingly established, and the jury implicitly found, that Mr. Trump deliberately and forcibly penetrated Ms. Carroll's vagina with his fingers, causing immediate pain and long lasting emotional and psychological harm." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Roger Parloff@rparloff.bsky.social · 3w agoE Jean Carroll's atty has $5.62M for the Carroll II verdict. ...
E Jean Carroll's atty has $5.62M for the Carroll II verdict. ...
Ruling in Trump v. IRS today, Judge Williams writes: "The nature of the suit [and] conduct of the Parties...make plain that this was an attempt to use the Court to provide some legitimacy to an agreement to confer immunity" to Trump affiliates and to earmark billions from U.S. taxpayers
Here's is Trump's emergency motion in the Second Circuit seeking an administrative stay of Judge Kaplan's order, which has already authorized the clerk to release $5+M to E Jean Carroll from escrow. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
#8 in Carroll v. Trump (2d Cir., 26-1840) – CourtListener.com
EMERGENCY MOTION, for Immediate Administrative Stay, on behalf of Appellant Donald Trump, FILED. Service date 07/08/2026 by ACMS. [Entered: 07/08/2026 03:56 PM] [Edited: 07/08/2026 04:00 PM]
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NEWS: Federal judge in Georgia quashes DOJ grand jury subpoena seeking information about election workers who volunteered or worked during the 2020 election in Fulton County. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
![IV.
CONCLUSION
The subpoena power of the Grand Jury is broad, but it is not absolute. If it
were, the Supreme Court could simply say so, which it has not. Given the low need
for the subpoenaed information and the highly burdensome nature of the disclosure
of the same, the Subpoena is unreasonable and must be quashed pursuant to Federal
Rule of Criminal Procedure 17(a)(2).
Based on the foregoing, Fulton County's Motion to Quash Grandy Jury
Subpoena [Doc. 1] is GRANTED and the United States of America's Cross-Motion
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Case 1:26-cv-02777-WMR
Document 37 Filed 07/07/26
Page 28 of 28
to Enforce Grand Jury Subpoena [Doc. 10] is DENIED. Accordingly, the Subpoena
(Subpoena No. 2026R00350-01) [Doc. 1-1] is QUASHED and Fulton County is
under no obligation to comply. Fulton County's request [Doc. 34] for access to the
materials included in United States' Motion for In Camera Review [Doc. 32] is
TERMINATED AS MOOT. The Clerk of Court is DIRECTED TO
TERMINATE this case.
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DC Circuit panel unanimously denies Trump's attempt to stay removal of his name from Kennedy Center pending appeal. Judges Millett (Obama), Wilkens (Obama), Katsas Trump. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Per Curiam Order Filed (Special Panel) – #01208867258 in Joyce Beatty v. Donald Trump (D.C. Cir., 26-5224) – CourtListener.com
PER CURIAM ORDER [2182243] filed ORDERED that the motion for stay [2178611-2] be denied (SEE ORDER FOR MORE DETAILS). Before Judges: Millett, Wilkins and Katsas. [26-5224] [Entered: 07/08/2026 10:45 A...
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And now Trump is appealing Judge Kaplan's order, earlier today, releasing $5 M+ in funds to E. Jean Carroll.
E. Jean Carroll asks court to order Trump to pay the $5,779,783 he owes for Carroll II verdict for sex abuse & defamation ($5M plus interest). Trump’s atty wants time to weigh asking SCOTUS to “reconsider” its cert denial. She says fuhgeddaboudit. “This is the end of the line.” ... 1/3
He has moved for a preliminary injunction, too storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Memorandum in Support – #2, Att. #1 in BRENNAN v. BLANCHE (D.D.C., 1:26-cv-02323) – CourtListener.com
MOTION for Preliminary Injunction by JOHN O. BRENNAN. (Attachments: # 1 Memorandum in Support, # 2 Declaration of Kenneth L. Wainstein, # 3 Exhibit 1, # 4 Exhibit 2, # 5 Exhibit 3, # 6 Exhibit 4, # 7 ...
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John O Brennan sues DOJ in DC asking court to order preservation of documents & records relevant to building constitutional challenge to his vindictive prosecution. www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
Brennan v DOJ
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Reversing Judge Cobb, DC Circuit rules, 2-1, that Trump's expansion of "expedited removal" procedures to the max— basically to any noncitizen here illegally who can't prove 2 years' residence—is likely lawful. Walker/Rao in majority; Wilkins dissents. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
#01208862854 in Make The Road New York v. Markwayne Mullin (D.C. Cir., 25-5320) – CourtListener.com
OPINION [2179963] filed (Pages: 39) for the Court by Judge Walker, in which WILKINS, J., joins as to Parts I, II and IV, and in which RAO, J., joins as to Parts I–III, IV.B, and V; OPINION CONCURRING ...
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The First Circuit has issued a partial administrative stay that, I think, lets the Trump Adm leave as is, for now, what Judge Angel Kelly had referred to as its "white-outs" & "rewritings" of history at exhibits & displays at national parks. ... 1/2 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Main Document – #00108465749 in National Park Conservation Ass'n v. US Dep't of the Interior (1st Cir., 26-1714) – CourtListener.com
ORDER entered by David J. Barron, Chief Appellate Judge; Gustavo A. Gelpí, Jr., Appellate Judge and Julie Rikelman, Appellate Judge: This is an appeal, inter alia, from a preliminary injunction entere...
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Plaintiffs in the Kennedy Center renaming case ask judge to order Trump to explain what the tarp/scaffolding is about. "Willfully sabotaging the KC's iconic facade to assauge Defs' vanity or massage broken egos is a clear breach of fiduciary duty." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Govt’s supplemental motion to dismiss J6 cases of 8 top Oath Keepers, 6 of whom were convicted of seditious conspiracy, is circular. Now that DC Circuit has vacated their convictions—at govt’s request—it’d be harassment to retry them, esp since Trump has already commuted sentences. ... 1/3
Hennepin Co (Minnesota) asks federal court to send prosecution of ICE agent back to state court. Agent "fails to show how pointing a gun at a motorist while driving illegally along a highway shoulder is connected ... to his duties ..." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Trump's emergency plea to the DC Circuit to stop removal of his name from the Kennedy Center included this odd reference to a bylaw that had never been mentioned before in the litigation. It's looking increasingly like it was passed last week—and maybe on Thursday, the day before the petition.
Roger Parloff@rparloff.bsky.social · 2mo agoHere Trump asserts that center’s “trustees” passed a poison-pill bylaw that requires return of donations if his name is ever removed. AFAIK this has never been alleged before in the litigation. If true, is another shocking indictment of his board of toadies. 2/5
2 weeks ago, Judge Cooper gave Trump 14 days to remove his name from Kennedy Center. Last night, hours before expiration, Trump moved for a stay. Argues that Congress didn't forbid "secondary names," the way Dept of War is also "known by secondary names." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
BREAKING: Judge Brinkema in E.D.Va. grants preliminary injunction against Trump’s slush fund, holding that case is not moot, that at least one plaintiff has standing and is likely to succeed on the merits. Gives govt one week to get sworn declaration from Blanche/Bessent that fund is truly dead.
Judge Quraishi drops order for hearing on Delaney Hall conditions (stayed by USCA3). Detainee was properly detained due to a FL theft charge & his transfer out of Delaney mooted his conditions claim. But Quraishi warns govt not to evade review thru transfer storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Judge Cooper DENIES Trump's motion to stay removal of his name from the Kennedy Center. "... [I]ssuance of a stay pending appeal would not be in the public interest, which is rarely served by the 'perpetuation' of 'unlawful' governmental action."
![MINUTE ORDER: Defendants' 55 L Motion for a Stay of Permanent Injunction Pending Appeal is hereby DENIED.
"A stay pending appeal is an extraordinary remedy" and may only be granted if the traditional stay factors are satisfied.
KalshiEX LLC v. CFTC, 119 F.4th 58, 63 (D.C. Cir. 2024) (cleaned up). Defendants have not carried their burden to establish that a stay of the Court's May 29, 2026 permanent injunction concerning the Kennedy Center's renaming is warranted pending an appeal of the underlying ruling to the D.C. Circuit. Most notably, for the detailed reasons laid out in the Court's ruling, Defendants have not "made a strong showing that [they] are likely to succeed on the merits" of any appeal. Nken v. Holder, 556 U.S. 418, 426 (2009) (quoting Hilton v. Braunskill, 481 U.S. 770, 776 (1987)). Nor have Defendants demonstrated that they "will be irreparably injured absent a stay," id. (quoting Hilton, 481 U.S. at
776), given both the de minimis resources that would be required to restore the Center's current name in the event of a successful appeal and the lack of record evidence linking increased donations to the current name. Further, Defendants have apparently taken substantial steps toward complying with the Court's May 29 permanent injunction order on renaming. See Mot. for Misc. Relief, ECF No. 51, Ex. A (June 4, 2026 memorandum from the Kennedy Center's Office of General Counsel directing staff to comply with the Court's permanent injunction on renaming). These efforts undermine the notion that Defendants face irreparable harm in complying with the order in full. The failure to demonstrate irreparable harm is "fatal" to a movant's stay request, KalshiEx, 119 F.4th at 64, as is the failure to show a likelihood of success on the merits. What's more, issuance of a stay pending appeal would not be in the public interest, which is rarely served by the "perpetuation" of "unlawful" governmental action. League of Women Voters of the U.S. v.
Newby, 838 F.3d 1, 12 (D…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vrmx2e5gsi23srsy2n7vljvb/bafkreihv6xfxtjcn2zlc6vhfdirdsn2pfqbuweviwuourzmxdljyrxwjo4)
Judge Tunheim closes cases of 5 people unlawfully detained in Operation Metro Surge who, after release & weeks or months of waiting, finally got their property back. 3 received unspecified FTCA compensation. Judge Tunheim "regrets the hardship imposed." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Full text of the Senate version of Blumenthal/Frost's bicameral Right to Record Act which would add new legal consequences for federal/immigration enforcement officers who prevent recording, observing, or peacefully protesting law enforcement activities (which is already constitutionally protected)
