Bye bye to the Trump regime’s original lawsuit trying to interfere with California’s election administration. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cacd.1043513/gov.uscourts.cacd.1043513.180.0.pdf #LawFedi
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/117555227459508574
Unsurprisingly, US DOJ has submitted its brief in opposition to full en banc review. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca9.34809698-a4bb-456f-906e-40cfcf74ab7a/gov.uscourts.ca9.34809698-a4bb-456f-906e-40cfcf74ab7a.38.0.pdf #LawFedi
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In the SEIU v. USDOJ case, the one concerning an injunction to Trump regime to stop threatening election workers and officials with prosecution, a very unusual process is now occurring.
The Ninth Circuit consists of 29 judges total. When an en banc hearing is held, in the first instance only a subset of these hears the case. That’s what happened earlier today, when the subgroup lifted the injunction. 1/ #LawFedi
Open quoted postIn the SEIU v. USDOJ case, the one concerning an injunction to Trump regime to stop threatening election workers and officials with prosecution, a very unusual process is now occurring.
The Ninth Circuit consists of 29 judges total. When an en banc hearing is held, in the first instance only a subset of these hears the case. That’s what happened earlier today, when the subgroup lifted the injunction. 1/ #LawFedi
RE: https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/117550723815948345
The 9th Circuit sitting en banc has reinstated the panel’s order, lifting the district’s court prohibition of the Trump regime threatening prosecution of election workers and officials who do not comply with the regime’s orders re segregating ballots the regime speciously claims are from “likely noncitizen voters. “ 1/ #LawFedi
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/117531919080199006
In the lawsuit I used as an example in the thread at the quoted post, the plaintiffs won a temporary restraining order prohibiting the Trump regime from threatening election workers and officials. Tonight the 9th Circuit stayed this prohibition. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28863968-seiuthompsonca9110226pdf/ 1/ #LawFedi
Open quoted postRE: https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/117531919080199006
In the lawsuit I used as an example in the thread at the quoted post, the plaintiffs won a temporary restraining order prohibiting the Trump regime from threatening election workers and officials. Tonight the 9th Circuit stayed this prohibition. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28863968-seiuthompsonca9110226pdf/ 1/ #LawFedi
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Pro-democracy plaintiffs keep filing lawsuits to keep up with Trump regime’s ongoing election interference. I don’t see any legacy media reporting comprehensively on the daily encroachments by the regime or pro-democracy plaintiffs’ efforts to block them. There’s a massively important news story here that is getting covered only piecemeal. 1/ #LawFedi
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Good news. The Roberts court has already denied the Trump regime’s motion. https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/110226zr_3eb4.pdf 1/ #LawFedi
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Here we go: Trump regime’s latest effort to get its election interference ok’d by the Roberts Court. The regime seeks to have the Court require California to “segregate” mail ballots cast by those the regime has identified as “likely noncitizens”. This would require the Court to stay a federal district order against such segregation, an order upheld by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. https://assets.bwbx.io/documents/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/r2A28lzqdS_4/v0 1/ #LawFedi
Open quoted postHere we go: Trump regime’s latest effort to get its election interference ok’d by the Roberts Court. The regime seeks to have the Court require California to “segregate” mail ballots cast by those the regime has identified as “likely noncitizens”. This would require the Court to stay a federal district order against such segregation, an order upheld by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. https://assets.bwbx.io/documents/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/r2A28lzqdS_4/v0 1/ #LawFedi
RE: https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/117531934897745251
About an hour ago, the judge in this suit granted plaintiffs’ motion for a TRO to prevent the Trump DOJ from continuing to threaten poll workers and election administrators with unfounded criminal prosecution. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.482447/gov.uscourts.cand.482447.26.0.pdf #LawFedi 1/
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In this thread, I’m going to use a lawsuit filed yesterday on behalf of California election workers to illustrate how coordinated the Trump regime’s onslaught is and how the pro-democracy bar is well-aware of that.
I note at the outset that this is not normal. We cannot have free and fair elections in the United States if lawyers must work round the clock to safeguard elections from the federal government to close ballot access and disrupt the counting of millions of Americans’ votes. 2/
Open quoted postPro-democracy plaintiffs keep filing lawsuits to keep up with Trump regime’s ongoing election interference. I don’t see any legacy media reporting comprehensively on the daily encroachments by the regime or pro-democracy plaintiffs’ efforts to block them. There’s a massively important news story here that is getting covered only piecemeal. 1/ #LawFedi
Just in: Judge Ana Reyes will be formally investigating whether Trump DoJ has been lying to the Court, a prelude to holding DoJ lawyers in contempt or filing misconduct charges with appropriate state bar associations. This is how lawyers lose their right to practice in federal court or even their licenses to practice law at all. https://www.bloomberglaw.com/product/blaw/bloomberglawnews/us-law-week/BNA%20000001a1-8daf-d32b-a1bd-ddefdd9b0001 (story paywalled, screenshot below) #LawFedi
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Do read the entire introduction to his decision preserving California’s voting from Trump’s interference. Full opinion available here https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/akvellqgepr/10282026calif.pdf Full introduction in pic. 3/ #LawFedi
Democratic Party institutions and officials, represented by Marc Elias, tonight filed a really interesting lawsuit in D.C. District Court, before Judge Boasberg, seeking immediate injunction against Trump regime’s efforts to interfere with current U.S. election. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.297829/gov.uscourts.dcd.297829.1.0.pdf 1/ #LawFedi
Here’s the Santa Fe New Mexican’s coverage of #LandofAction winning a TRO restraining order to prevent the Santa Fe County Clerk from refusing credentialed election watchers unless they satisfy her add-on requirements. https://enewmexican.pressreader.com/article/6878536170302588 May be paywalled so screenshots of story below. #Elections #LawFedi #NewMexico
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Read the full complaint and request for an immediate court order to the County Clerk to allow Land of Action election watchers entry to the polls. https://drive.proton.me/urls/02CZT1PW1W#gSj8d59rdIPM #SantaFe #NewMexico #LawFedi #Elections 3/3
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Basically, the Santa Fe County Clerk insists she has unilateral authority to set training and certification requirements for election protection watchers who have satisfied all state requirements. 2/ #SantaFe #NewMexico #LawFedi #Elections
It has been a wild time here in #SantaFe County #NewMexico the past couple of days. Here’s what’s been keeping me so busy.
“Land of Action and Election Watchers Seek Immediate Court Order to Admit Watchers to Santa Fe County Polls”
https://www.landofaction.org/land-of-action-and-election-watchers-seek-immediate-court-order-to-admit-watchers-to-santa-fe-county-polls/ #LawFedi #Elections 1/
I’m a bit late with sharing this, but I was quoted in this 10/10/26 story about Jane Doe’s sorority being among the defendants in her civil suit against Cornell, the 7 alleged rapists, and others. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/10/nyregion/at-cornell-a-sorority-finds-itself-sued-by-one-of-its-own.html?unlocked_article_code=1.IVE.Kd_F.sVdRr2HEh1Ts&smid=url-share #LawFedi
I spent all day on election activism. There’s a county clerk here who is interfering with duly appointed election watchers’ access to the polls. I was settling down for the evening, when I read this opinion and it reminded me of why I am working so hard to make sure the U.S. election is free and fair and the results are respected and implemented.
The opinion is an order to make ICE bring back a man they kidnapped and flew to Equatorial Guinea. The author is a Trump appointed judge. 1/ #LawFedi
RE: https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/117363288170708374
The Roberts 6 lifted an administrative stay granted by the 6th Circuit so it could consider Christa Pike’s appeal of being sentenced to death. In other words, they refused to allow a pending claim for relief to be heard, allowing tonight’s horribly botched attempt to kill Pike. They are ethically bankrupt, corrupt, and lawless. Unless and until they are removed by impeachment or disempowered by court reform, the federal judicial branch is compromised. 1/ #LawFedi
The latest Lawyer Ex Machina is out: more hacking attempts by OpenAI agents target university and government websites; Kalshi asks the CFTC to allow margin trading on its platform; Google sued over AI Overviews; more about the FBI hack; and what is Jev? #lawfedi #lawlibrarians #legaltech