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Josh Gerstein
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Josh Gerstein
@joshgerstein
Sr. Legal Affairs Reporter, @POLITICO.
Priors: ABC White House & China correspondent, CNN, NY Sun 🇺🇸🇦🇺[email protected]. Signal: joshgerstein.46
Joined August 2009
- ANNOUNCER: Every book gets sent to the Library of Congress. It's part of the copyright process.THERE IT IS: Turns out the Trump-fired Librarian of Congress was pursuing DEI and putting inappropriate books in the library for children with her position. She is now gone.
- FLASH: Fed judge denies motion by lawyer Lin Wood to block certification of GA election results
- BREAKING: 2 federal employee unions, AFGE & SEIU, file suit seeking to block DOGE access to Treasury Department payment database. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
- JUST IN: Carson City, NV judge hearing election challenge filed by Trump electors has set a hearing for 12/3 at 130PM local. Will allow 15 depositions for each side between now and then. Atty is @SidneyPowell1's co-counsel in Flynn case, @jbinnall.
- NEW: Judge orders WH to preserve records of Trump dealings w/foreign leaders. Notable because she could've just accepted DOJ pledge that WH would. Also because an injunction applied to the president is exceptionally rare politi.co/336SFni
- BREAKING: Judge denies Trump admin request to stay order requiring McGahn to appear for testimony. Also flays DOJ, calling its arguments 'disingenuous' & 'unacceptable mischaracterization'. Doc: courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
- NEW OVERNIGHT: In late-night court filing from DOJ, @RodRosenstein acknowledges he made decision to release Strzok-Page texts that have fueled many a POTUS attack on the former FBI employees. Both are suing over release, saying it invaded their privacy
- JUST IN: Fed judge in Atlanta sets hearing for 2PM Friday on GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s effort to stay on ballot for re-election, despite drive to use state law to bar her as an insurrectionist. Side note: Judge is Amy Totenberg, sister of NPR’s Nina.
- Just before midnight last night, Justice Department made unusual public filing airing more grievances from inside the Mueller probe: an FBI agent's complaints that the initial inquiry into Michael Flynn was based on weak evidence. w/@kyledcheney
- BREAKING: 2nd GOP challenge to GA runoff procedures is dismissed on standing grounds....
- UPDATE: Pennsylvania's lawyers say there's now so little left of the Trump campaign's federal lawsuit over election results there that there's no need for the argument session a judge has scheduled for Tuesday
- TRUMP RULING BOOMERANGS ON MYPILLOW BOSS: A Trump-appointed federal judge just denied a TRO for Mike Lindell to get his phone back after it was seized by FBI at Hardee's. Judge cites....wait for it.....Trump docs ruling from 11th Circuit last night. Doc: bit.ly/3Sm66df
- BREAKING: 9th Circuit has given the Trump administration a green light to proceed with deportation of about 300,000 El Salvadorans by ending the 'temporary protected status' they've had for up to 20 years. 2-1 ruling today. Doc: bit.ly/33tjOTi More to come
