Judge Illston listed services that could disappear if the offices that administer them were wiped out, including #DisasterRelief funds for #farmers after a #flood, in-person appointments for #SocialSecurity recipients to discuss their #benefits, #workplace #safety inspections in #mines & #grants that support #kindergarten programs.

Judge Illston’s order:
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.448664/gov.uscourts.cand.448664.85.0.pdf

Judge Illston noted that process requires consultation with #Congress on any plan to abolish or transfer part of an agency.

“It is the prerogative of presidents to pursue new policy priorities & to imprint their stamp on the #FederalGovernment,” she wrote in a 42-page order. “But to make large-scale overhauls of federal agencies, any president must enlist the help of his #CoequalBranch & partner, the Congress.”

Of all the lawsuits challenging #Trump’s vision to dramatically scale back the form & function of the #FederalGovernment, this one is poised to have the broadest effect. Most of the agencies have yet to announce their downsizing plans, but employees across the govt have been anxiously waiting for announcements that have been expected for weeks.

Judge Talwani in April found that the #law governing such parole did not allow for the program's blanket termination, instead requiring a case-by-case review. The Boston-based 1st US Circuit Court of Appeals declined to put that decision on hold.

#Trump asks #SCOTUS to allow revocation of migrants' legal status

Trump's admin asked the US Supreme Court on Thurs to intervene in its bid to revoke the temporary legal status granted by his predecessor Joe #Biden to hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan, Cuban, Haitian & Nicaraguan migrants living in the #UnitedStates.

#law #immigration #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-asks-us-supreme-court-allow-revocation-migrants-legal-status-2025-05-08/

Gorski: what's important is future legal custodians. what matters is future confinement. not current.

#Boasberg: do you think Padilla could have sued in Washington before he was transferred to Charleston.

Gorski: if he had notice in advance, yes.

Boasberg moves on to the next issue.

Gelernt: we are not ... seeking a class for the entire thing anymore

#Boasberg: so let's not talk about subclasses. they're classes. similarly the original named plaintiffs--they're not part of those classes, right?

Gelernt: right.

Judge: why isn't Padilla a problem for you here in sense that shouldn’t venue lie in district where they were held prior to removal?

“#Congress mandated #VOA to report reliable & authoritative news, not to outsource its #journalism to outlets aligned w/the president’s agenda,” they wrote in a stmnt. “VOA already has talented & professional #journalists ready to tell America’s story in line w/the VOA Charter, but we are blocked from our own newsroom. That is why we will continue fighting for our rights in court.”

#VoiceOfAmerica WH bureau chief Patsy Widakuswara & #PressFreedom editor Jessica Jerreat, plaintiffs in one of the lawsuits against the #Trump admin over the EO, said this agreement violates the congressional mandate of #VOA.

The comment came as #Trump remained adamant that he wanted to ship undocumented #immigrants out of the country & said it was inconceivable to hear millions of cases in #court, insisting he needed the #power to quickly remove people he claimed were murderers & drug dealers.

“I was elected to get them the hell out of here, & the courts are holding me from doing it,” he said.

Clement also opposed the #Trump admin's bid to withdraw the federal corruption case against #NYC Mayor #EricAdams w/the potential to refile charges. A judge earlier this month dismissed the case permanently after Clement, acting as a court-appointed adviser, said it would otherwise hang over Adams like a "sword of Damocles."

#HannahDugan's arrest Friday was part of an escalating dispute between the admin & local officials over #immigration enforcement.

Clement, a US solicitor general during the Republican admin of George W. Bush who has argued >100 cases before #SCOTUS, has clashed with the #Trump admin in other cases.

He is representing WilmerHale in its lawsuit challenging an #ExecutiveOrder Trump signed last month targeting the #US #LawFirm's business w/federal contractors & restricting its access to government officials and buildings.

The #Constitution set up a #SeparationOfPowers among the federal government's #coequal #executive, #legislative & #judicial branches.

Proponents of a *conservative* legal doctrine called the "#UnitaryExecutive" theory that envisions vast executive authority for a president portray Humphrey's as wrongly decided. They argue that #ArticleII gives a president sole authority over the executive branch, including the power to fire heads of #independent agencies despite protections under #law.