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The Circuit's decision appears to invite the workaround of dividing responsibilities between two persons in the U.S. Attorney's Office, who could then each exercise half of that Office's powers.

My two petitions for writs of mandamus challenge the Justice Department's violation of the Crime Victims' Rights Act and argue for substantive "public interest" review of prosecutors' dismissal motions.

The D.C. Circuit declines to reach the merits of many of the serious underlying constitutional questions.

The judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit split over whether they should write about the reasons for their splitting over en banc review.

A sovereign See, a safehouse, and an infinite number of pronouns.

A short excerpt from yesterday's longish decision by Chief Judge James Boasberg (D.D.C.) in In re Application of Politico LLC… The post Chief Judge Boasberg on Politico's Request for Grand Jury Records Related to FBI Director Kash Patel's 2023 Appearance appeared first on Reason.com.

But Justice Clarence Thomas wrote a strong dissent to denial of certiorari.

Dress up time.

The Court rejected some federal circuits' rules that a majority-group plaintiff must "present[] evidence of 'background circumstances' suggesting that the [defendant] was the rare employer who discriminates against members of a majority group."