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- Created after the Watergate scandal, the DOJ's Public Integrity Section has fought political corruption for nearly half a century.
- Five months into President Trump's second term, the unit has lost its authority to file new cases, its staff has been reduced from more than 30 attorneys to four and its once-powerful gatekeeping role – reviewing potential cases against members of Congress and other public officials to prevent politically motivated prosecutions – has been suspended.
- Those changes, confirmed by three people familiar with the department's operations, are part of a DOJ overhaul by the Trump administration that is dismantling guardrails designed to stop political interference in criminal investigations involving political figures.
- The crippling of the Public Integrity Section, coming under a president who campaigned on a vow to exact retribution against his enemies, will make it easier to punish opponents and reward rivals, said constitutional law experts and former Justice Department officials.
- A DOJ spokesperson confirmed changes to the rules are under review but said no final decisions have been reached.
- Read the Reuters special report here.
| - The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to issue orders in pending appeals at 9:30 a.m. ET.
- The Trump administration has until 12 p.m. today to respond to Columbia University student and pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil's additional written arguments to a federal judge weighing his release from immigration detention.
- Massachusetts Judge Shelley Joseph, who was criminally charged during the first Trump administration with impeding a federal immigration arrest of a defendant in her courtroom, will face a public hearing on accusations by state judicial disciplinary authorities that she engaged in willful misconduct.
- A trial will begin in London's High CourtLondon's High Court in Getty Images' copyright lawsuit against artificial intelligence company Stability AI over its AI image-generation system. Getty accuses Stability AI of using millions of its images to "train" its Stable Diffusion system, in a case which could have wider implications for the law on AI. Related cases have been filed in Delaware and California.
- The D.C. Bar will announce the results of its 2025 elections for president, treasurer, and members of its Board of Governors. The race for the bar presidency pitted Brad Bondi, a practice leader at Paul Hastings and the brother of U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, against employment law attorney Diane Seltzer. The bar said as of June 3, nearly 37,000 eligible members had cast ballots in this year's election, representing 41.22% of eligible voters, "a historic increase in voter turnout" compared to last year.
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Court calendars are subject to last-minute docket changes. |
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That's how much the State Bar of California is spending to mitigate the problems with February's bar exam and to ensure the upcoming July exam goes smoothly. Last week the bar approved a $185,000 contract with a consulting firm to review scoring of the February test, its latest expense to clean up the mess. Read more. |
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"This is not about the man. It's about his constitutional rights."
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—Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen, commenting on the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man mistakenly deported to El Salvador by the Trump administration, to the U.S. to face criminal charges of transporting illegal immigrants within the U.S. Hollen said the Trump administration finally relented to demands for compliance with court orders and the due process rights afforded to everyone in the U.S. Read more. |
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Brian Schmalzbach and Anne Doherty of McGuireWoods take a look at the best practices for obtaining mandamus relief to preserve clients' privileged information. Read the article from Westlaw Today. |
Additional writing by Shruthi Krishnamurthy. |
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