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📍Episode 2 is live. Soon after Trump took office, the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture purged vital climate-focused information from its web pages. @cristianfarias.com & @stephaniekrent.bsky.social discuss how our lawsuit with @earthjustice.org helped restore it. Listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
Episode 2: Farmers Fight Data Purge
Podcast Episode · The Bully's Pulpit: Trump v. The First Amendment · 05/23/2025 · 34m
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May 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
📍Episode 2 is live. Soon after Trump took office, the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture purged vital climate-focused information from its web pages. @cristianfarias.com & @stephaniekrent.bsky.social discuss how our lawsuit with @earthjustice.org helped restore it. Listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
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So, uh, it certainly looks like DOJ intended to file a letter to Judge Liman in MTA v. Duffy, but….it accidentally filed a letter containing its legal advice to the Department of Transportation instead
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April 24, 2025 at 1:55 AM
So, uh, it certainly looks like DOJ intended to file a letter to Judge Liman in MTA v. Duffy, but….it accidentally filed a letter containing its legal advice to the Department of Transportation instead
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The Department of Energy is rebranding the Solar Decathlon. My bet: the "Gas Decathlon": a contest to see which student team can come up with the least efficient building design. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...
E&E News: Solar is out as DOE rebrands Solar Decathlon
Student teams will compete only for honorable mentions at the rebranded “BuildingsNEXT Student Design competition."
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March 31, 2025 at 3:15 PM
The Department of Energy is rebranding the Solar Decathlon. My bet: the "Gas Decathlon": a contest to see which student team can come up with the least efficient building design. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...
Take a stand or bend the knee. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/o...
Opinion | For God’s Sake, Fellow Lawyers, Stand Up to Trump
The time has come to defend the oath we took when we became officers of the court.
www.nytimes.com
March 31, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Take a stand or bend the knee. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/o...
Earthjustice invites D.C. bar members to meet Diane Seltzer, candidate for bar president, on April 22. You must RSVP at the link. Remember that voting begins on April 15, and that Diane's opponent is Brad Bondi. RSVP here: tinyurl.com/498vwymc
March 28, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Earthjustice invites D.C. bar members to meet Diane Seltzer, candidate for bar president, on April 22. You must RSVP at the link. Remember that voting begins on April 15, and that Diane's opponent is Brad Bondi. RSVP here: tinyurl.com/498vwymc
You can't make this stuff up. In the first sentence of a request to disqualify a judge, Trump's DOJ demanded proceedings "free from any suggestion of impartiality."
March 27, 2025 at 6:12 PM
You can't make this stuff up. In the first sentence of a request to disqualify a judge, Trump's DOJ demanded proceedings "free from any suggestion of impartiality."
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Pete Hegseth today
March 24, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Pete Hegseth today
You know you're a lower court MAGA judge when Neil Gorsuch says he has "no trouble" rejecting arguments you found convincing. www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
Supreme Court upholds Biden regulations on 'ghost gun' kits
The decision means that the federal government can regulate the easily obtainable gun parts in the same way as firearms purchased from specialist stores.
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March 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
You know you're a lower court MAGA judge when Neil Gorsuch says he has "no trouble" rejecting arguments you found convincing. www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
I filled out todays's "progress towards petro-state dictatorship" bingo card with just this one article: Trump megadonor. Attack on oil industry safety rules. Filing before Judge Kacsmaryk. DOJ refusal to defend settled precedent. Bingo! subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...
E&E News: Trump ally seeks to topple pipeline safety enforcement
An energy company led by GOP megadonor Kelcy Warren wants the process for penalizing violations declared “unconstitutional."
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March 26, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I filled out todays's "progress towards petro-state dictatorship" bingo card with just this one article: Trump megadonor. Attack on oil industry safety rules. Filing before Judge Kacsmaryk. DOJ refusal to defend settled precedent. Bingo! subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...
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This is what happens when you have an entire cabinet full of folks who would NEVER pass a regular security clearance.
Led by a president who would never be able to pass one either.
Led by a president who would never be able to pass one either.
March 26, 2025 at 2:50 AM
This is what happens when you have an entire cabinet full of folks who would NEVER pass a regular security clearance.
Led by a president who would never be able to pass one either.
Led by a president who would never be able to pass one either.
I have no sympathy for CJ Roberts’ predicament. He helped create it by refusing to address gerrymandering, gutting the Voting Rights Act, outlawing campaign finance reform, and stalling Trump’s criminal prosecution.
March 22, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I have no sympathy for CJ Roberts’ predicament. He helped create it by refusing to address gerrymandering, gutting the Voting Rights Act, outlawing campaign finance reform, and stalling Trump’s criminal prosecution.
Bingo. If you have any dealings with the government, you would be nuts to rely on Paul, Weiss. And I’m shedding no tears for its downfall: the firm gets an “F” from Law Students for Climate Accountability.
Paul Weiss: "Fight for you? Oh, honey, we don't even fight for ourselves!"
March 22, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Bingo. If you have any dealings with the government, you would be nuts to rely on Paul, Weiss. And I’m shedding no tears for its downfall: the firm gets an “F” from Law Students for Climate Accountability.
As its website proudly notes, the "Weiss" in Paul, Weiss was Louis Weiss, who was famous for his commitment to civil rights. He would be ashamed of the firm he founded today: its partners just admitted that they care more about their pockets than their principles. www.paulweiss.com/about-the-fi...
History
1875 | 1910 | 1950 | Our Name Partners
Introduction
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, together with its predecessor firms, has been a presence in New York City for nearly 150 years and a...
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March 21, 2025 at 1:05 AM
As its website proudly notes, the "Weiss" in Paul, Weiss was Louis Weiss, who was famous for his commitment to civil rights. He would be ashamed of the firm he founded today: its partners just admitted that they care more about their pockets than their principles. www.paulweiss.com/about-the-fi...
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A federal court’s jurisdiction does *not* stop at the water’s edge. The question is whether the *defendants* are subject to the court order, not *where* the conduct being challenged takes place.
Were it otherwise, the government could act lawlessly overseas and courts would be powerless to stop it.
Were it otherwise, the government could act lawlessly overseas and courts would be powerless to stop it.
March 16, 2025 at 8:23 PM
A federal court’s jurisdiction does *not* stop at the water’s edge. The question is whether the *defendants* are subject to the court order, not *where* the conduct being challenged takes place.
Were it otherwise, the government could act lawlessly overseas and courts would be powerless to stop it.
Were it otherwise, the government could act lawlessly overseas and courts would be powerless to stop it.
EPA repealing its GHG endangerment finding to "drive a dagger straight into the heart of the climate change religion" is like putting Galileo in jail to make the sun go around the earth. www.epa.gov/newsreleases...
EPA Launches Biggest Deregulatory Action in U.S. History | US EPA
EPA News Release: EPA Launches Biggest Deregulatory Action in U.S. History
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March 14, 2025 at 9:07 PM
EPA repealing its GHG endangerment finding to "drive a dagger straight into the heart of the climate change religion" is like putting Galileo in jail to make the sun go around the earth. www.epa.gov/newsreleases...
Trump's environmental actions, like his tariff policy, looks more like culture war than policy agenda. Because this particular move is like deleting the word "door" from a building code. www.eenews.net/articles/fem...
FEMA looks to strip climate phrases from official documents
The proposed list of words to avoid also includes terms that only tangentially relate to global warming, such as “water conservation.”
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March 14, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Trump's environmental actions, like his tariff policy, looks more like culture war than policy agenda. Because this particular move is like deleting the word "door" from a building code. www.eenews.net/articles/fem...
“That’s just not right in our country, is it? That we run our agencies with lies like that and stain somebody’s record for the rest of their life? Who is going to want to work in a government that would do that to them?” I heart Judge Alsup. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Judge orders Trump officials to offer jobs back to fired probationary workers
Judge William Alsup directed the Trump administration to extend the offer to probationary workers fired last month across several agencies.
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March 13, 2025 at 5:46 PM
“That’s just not right in our country, is it? That we run our agencies with lies like that and stain somebody’s record for the rest of their life? Who is going to want to work in a government that would do that to them?” I heart Judge Alsup. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
“No one sues the government lightly,” said [BigLaw managing partner]. “You want to make sure you are doing it for fundamentally important reasons” Translation: happy to challenge regulations on behalf of business. Chicken to challenge dictators on behalf of real people. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
Fear of Trump Has Elite Law Firms in Retreat
Many big corporate law firms are declining to help with public criticism and legal opposition to the second Trump administration, in the wake of executive orders punishing law firms with Democratic ti...
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March 10, 2025 at 1:24 PM
“No one sues the government lightly,” said [BigLaw managing partner]. “You want to make sure you are doing it for fundamentally important reasons” Translation: happy to challenge regulations on behalf of business. Chicken to challenge dictators on behalf of real people. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
Last year, China added 82,277 heavy-duty electric trucks to its roads. The U.S. added 1,476. Ending investments in clean trucking hands China a major victory in its campaign to dominate the future of manufacturing.
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Trump stalls $1B push to electrify trucking at Port of LA
The Biden administration program was aimed at cleaning up diesels that create the region’s deadliest air pollution. Now it’s all in doubt.
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March 7, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Last year, China added 82,277 heavy-duty electric trucks to its roads. The U.S. added 1,476. Ending investments in clean trucking hands China a major victory in its campaign to dominate the future of manufacturing.
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As a lawyer, I can't think of more clear-cut proof that we now have an authoritarian government.
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Addressing Risks from Perkins Coie LLP
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose. The
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March 6, 2025 at 10:58 PM
As a lawyer, I can't think of more clear-cut proof that we now have an authoritarian government.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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“The majority is saying EPA can still protect water quality if it invests more staff time in issuing each permit,” Sankar said. “I guess they haven’t heard that Trump is gutting the agency.” @maxinejoselow.bsky.social wapo.st/3XntnA0
Supreme Court strikes down EPA rules on discharge of water pollution
The justices ruled that the agency cannot impose generic prohibitions against violating water quality standards.
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March 4, 2025 at 10:51 PM
“The majority is saying EPA can still protect water quality if it invests more staff time in issuing each permit,” Sankar said. “I guess they haven’t heard that Trump is gutting the agency.” @maxinejoselow.bsky.social wapo.st/3XntnA0
Expanding offshore drilling is dangerous and dumb. Here's conservative Florida Rep. Byron Donalds suddenly turning all NIMBY: "I will tell my colleagues, you can do that wherever you want, but not off of Florida’s coast." subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...
E&E News: Republican push to expand offshore drilling has its limits
President Donald Trump and GOP lawmakers have moved to undo the Biden administration's offshore restrictions. Some Republicans say, "Not so fast."
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March 4, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Expanding offshore drilling is dangerous and dumb. Here's conservative Florida Rep. Byron Donalds suddenly turning all NIMBY: "I will tell my colleagues, you can do that wherever you want, but not off of Florida’s coast." subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...
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It is not Zelensky and Ukraine that should be thanking the West.
It is the West that should be thanking Zelensky and Ukraine.
It is the West that should be thanking Zelensky and Ukraine.
February 28, 2025 at 6:35 PM
It is not Zelensky and Ukraine that should be thanking the West.
It is the West that should be thanking Zelensky and Ukraine.
It is the West that should be thanking Zelensky and Ukraine.
BigLaw partners: You've been cheering the DoJ lawyers who are choosing their principles over their jobs. Will they cheer for you when you refuse to defend anyone that Trump targets?
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | Warning to law firms: Stand up for the rule of law while you can
One by one, Trump is fencing in all his potential opponents. Now he’s sending a clear warning to lawyers to back off.
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February 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
BigLaw partners: You've been cheering the DoJ lawyers who are choosing their principles over their jobs. Will they cheer for you when you refuse to defend anyone that Trump targets?
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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