Sam Zwingli
@samzwingli.bsky.social
Senior Associate in Hogan Lovell’s Appellate & Supreme Court group. Sarcasm is my own. My posts do not represent the views or positions of Hogan Lovells US LLP, its clients, or personnel.
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I don’t see how, unless our entire profession stands shoulder-to-shoulder in unity, we successfully push back against this effort to break our profession and our democracy.
Cowering & compromising won’t work. He is attacking us for the success of our work.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Cowering & compromising won’t work. He is attacking us for the success of our work.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court
MEMORANDUM FOR THE ATTORNEY GENERAL THE SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY SUBJECT: Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court Lawyers
www.whitehouse.gov
March 22, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I don’t see how, unless our entire profession stands shoulder-to-shoulder in unity, we successfully push back against this effort to break our profession and our democracy.
Cowering & compromising won’t work. He is attacking us for the success of our work.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Cowering & compromising won’t work. He is attacking us for the success of our work.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Every time you see someone powerful acting like a craven coward in the face of this authoritarian menace, let it stiffen your own spine. We are all we've got.
March 20, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Every time you see someone powerful acting like a craven coward in the face of this authoritarian menace, let it stiffen your own spine. We are all we've got.
This is like thanking the bully who punched you.
And then paying them $40M for good measure.
And then paying them $40M for good measure.
Trump Rescinds Paul Weiss Order as Firm Pledges $40 Million (2)
President Donald Trump rescinded an executive order against Paul Weiss, saying the law firm will dedicate $40 million in pro bono legal services during his term to support administration goals.
news.bloomberglaw.com
March 20, 2025 at 11:47 PM
This is like thanking the bully who punched you.
And then paying them $40M for good measure.
And then paying them $40M for good measure.
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The successful brief in opposition was filed by my Hogan Lovells colleagues, including Jess Ellsworth, J.A. Sagar, and @samzwingli.bsky.social.
This is a big one: SCOTUS will *not* revisit its precedent allowing states to create "bubble zones" that limit protests outside abortion clinics. Thomas and Alito dissent.
Very surprising—I really thought they'd overturn those precedents after Dobbs. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
Very surprising—I really thought they'd overturn those precedents after Dobbs. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
![The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied. JUSTICE
ALITO would grant the petition for a writ of certiorari.
JUSTICE THOMAS, dissenting from the denial of certiorari.
In Hill v. Colorado, 530 U. S. 703 (2000), this Court upheld a state law restricting peaceful speech within 100 feet
of abortion clinics. It was clear at the time that Hill’s reasoning “contradict[ed] more than a half century of well-established First Amendment principles.” Id., at 765 (Kennedy, J., dissenting); see also id., at 742 (Scalia, J., joined
by THOMAS, J., dissenting). A number of us have since described the decision as an “absurd,” “defunct,” “erroneous,”
and “long-discredited” “aberration” from the rest of our
First Amendment jurisprudence. See City of Austin v.
Reagan Nat. Advertising of Austin, LLC, 596 U. S. 61, 86–
87, 92, 103–104 (2022) (THOMAS, J., joined by GORSUCH and
BARRETT, JJ., dissenting) (internal quotation marks omitted). We have long stopped applying Hill. See, e.g., City of
Austin, 596 U. S., at 76. And, a majority of this Court recently acknowledged that Hill “distorted [our] First Amendment doctrines.” Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, 597 U. S. 215, 287, and n. 65 (2022). Following our
repudiation in Dobbs, I do not see what is left of Hill. Yet,
lower courts continue to feel bound by it. The Court today
declines an invitation to set the record straight on Hill’s defunct status. I respectfully dissent.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreicle74qq6asiii2dfd6g7gqo35wbkzt2vncdmooobhdrfhafgqai4@jpeg)
February 24, 2025 at 2:44 PM
The successful brief in opposition was filed by my Hogan Lovells colleagues, including Jess Ellsworth, J.A. Sagar, and @samzwingli.bsky.social.
Searching for bird puns so I laugh instead of cry.
Some may say USDA egrets its decision.
F around and fowl out.
This administration is really out here wingin’ it.
USDA sure ruffled some feathers.
Some may say USDA egrets its decision.
F around and fowl out.
This administration is really out here wingin’ it.
USDA sure ruffled some feathers.
The USDA says "several" staffers working on the bird flu response were terminated over the weekend, and "we are working to swiftly rectify the situation and rescind those letters."
The USDA fired staffers working on bird flu. Now it's trying to reverse course
The USDA says "several" staffers working on the bird flu response were terminated over the weekend, and "we are working to swiftly rectify the situation and rescind those letters."
www.npr.org
February 20, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Searching for bird puns so I laugh instead of cry.
Some may say USDA egrets its decision.
F around and fowl out.
This administration is really out here wingin’ it.
USDA sure ruffled some feathers.
Some may say USDA egrets its decision.
F around and fowl out.
This administration is really out here wingin’ it.
USDA sure ruffled some feathers.
#appellatesky, please weigh in on this EO. One reading usurps Congress’s Article I power to make laws and the judiciary’s Article III power to say what the law is; another reading requires agencies and employees to run everything through the President.
February 20, 2025 at 1:04 AM
#appellatesky, please weigh in on this EO. One reading usurps Congress’s Article I power to make laws and the judiciary’s Article III power to say what the law is; another reading requires agencies and employees to run everything through the President.
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Here is Judge Paul Engelmayer’s remarkable TRO barring (in effect) DOGE from accessing Treasury’s payment system & ordering (in effect) any DOGE person who has had access to destroy anything already copied. A short thread ...
www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
6-TRO
www.documentcloud.org
February 8, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Here is Judge Paul Engelmayer’s remarkable TRO barring (in effect) DOGE from accessing Treasury’s payment system & ordering (in effect) any DOGE person who has had access to destroy anything already copied. A short thread ...
www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
Imagine: Trump pays El Salvador to take violent American criminals.
El Salvador imprisons Trump, sexual abuse verdict in hand.
Uno reverse.
El Salvador imprisons Trump, sexual abuse verdict in hand.
Uno reverse.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio called it “a very generous offer” and said that it would allow the U.S. to outsource the cost of some of the most dangerous criminals in the United States.
Marco Rubio says El Salvador’s offer to jail violent American criminals faces ‘legalities’
Secretary of State Marco Rubio says “there are obviously legalities involved” in Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s offer to accept and jail violent American criminals.
www.chicagotribune.com
February 5, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Imagine: Trump pays El Salvador to take violent American criminals.
El Salvador imprisons Trump, sexual abuse verdict in hand.
Uno reverse.
El Salvador imprisons Trump, sexual abuse verdict in hand.
Uno reverse.
I’m so proud to have been part of this team.
NEW CHALLENGE: Today Lambda Legal, @aclu.org, and law firms Jenner & Block and Hogan Lovells filed a lawsuit on behalf of 2 trans young adults, 5 trans adolescents, & their families whose access to health care has been disrupted by President Trump’s executive order. Read more ➡️ tinyurl.com/2w8jd594
February 5, 2025 at 1:57 AM
I’m so proud to have been part of this team.
But what are the odds he’ll rename DC’s Japanese cherry blossoms to “liberty petals” or “Trumpy tulip trees”
January 21, 2025 at 1:10 PM
But what are the odds he’ll rename DC’s Japanese cherry blossoms to “liberty petals” or “Trumpy tulip trees”
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I’m trying, and I hope other people will try, to hold onto the simple notion that a US president cannot simply declare a federal law that was passed last year and literally upheld this week to be a nullity—even if it’s a not-so-hot law. The Congress is the body that can amend or repeal federal laws.
January 19, 2025 at 5:08 AM
I’m trying, and I hope other people will try, to hold onto the simple notion that a US president cannot simply declare a federal law that was passed last year and literally upheld this week to be a nullity—even if it’s a not-so-hot law. The Congress is the body that can amend or repeal federal laws.
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Here's the link to the (brief) 5-4 ruling by #SCOTUS declining to block President-Elect Trump's sentencing tomorrow in the New York hush money case:
www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
January 10, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Here's the link to the (brief) 5-4 ruling by #SCOTUS declining to block President-Elect Trump's sentencing tomorrow in the New York hush money case:
www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
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why'd they name this app bluesky when Elders Scroll was right there
January 7, 2025 at 7:23 PM
why'd they name this app bluesky when Elders Scroll was right there
#appellatesky, who are your go to accounts for circuit-specific updates? When I clerked on the Fifth Circuit, I set alerts for each @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social
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January 7, 2025 at 3:40 PM
#appellatesky, who are your go to accounts for circuit-specific updates? When I clerked on the Fifth Circuit, I set alerts for each @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social
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Who do I petition for adult snow days? Asking for a friend. #appellatesky
January 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Who do I petition for adult snow days? Asking for a friend. #appellatesky