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Jacqueline Thomsen, based in Washington, is a reporter covering D.C. federal courts and the legal side of politics. Contact her at [email protected] and follow her on Twitter @jacq_thomsen.
June 4, 2021 | National Law Journal
Lawyers and legal experts said they believe it's important for judicial opinions to be accessible to the general public, but they're split on whether the pop culture references are effective in achieving that goal.
By Jacqueline Thomsen
8 minute read
May 28, 2021 | National Law Journal
"We respectfully submit that the conduct here was so flagrantly unlawful and so obviously unconstitutional that it requires a remedy. And we are here today, your honor, to do everything we can to see that nothing like this ever happens again in our country," one attorney said.
By Jacqueline Thomsen
4 minute read
May 12, 2021 | National Law Journal
"President Biden has made clear that the days of public defenders being systematically passed over for top jobs on the federal bench are over," said Christopher Kang, chief counsel for the progressive group Demand Justice.
By Jacqueline Thomsen
1 minute read
May 4, 2021 | National Law Journal
"The agency's redactions and incomplete explanations obfuscate the true purpose of the memorandum, and the excised portions belie the notion that it fell to the attorney general to make a prosecution decision or that any such decision was on the table at any time," the federal judge wrote of the memo on whether to prosecute Trump over findings in the Mueller report.
By Jacqueline Thomsen
1 minute read
May 4, 2021 | National Law Journal
"From afar, it appears that this is Twitter mob purity butting up against the time-honored tradition of zealous advocacy, that is in fact required by ethical obligations," said one former chair of a Big Law firm.
By Jacqueline Thomsen
1 minute read
April 23, 2021 | The Recorder
The Biden Justice Department this week agreed to pay $1.5 million in attorney fees to end a Trump-era census lawsuit after the Trump DOJ paid roughly $9 million to resolve litigation over the failed attempt to add a citizenship question to the census.
By Jacqueline Thomsen
1 minute read
April 22, 2021 | National Law Journal
U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson said the defendant's religious beliefs wouldn't play into her ruling for his release, but raised concerns about whether he'd follow her orders.
By Jacqueline Thomsen
1 minute read
April 21, 2021 | National Law Journal
"It's my hope that this announcement is the beginning of many more announcements that are both enforcement, but also some of the other levers that the Department of Justice can pull to influence local jurisdictions around this very complicated and critical question of policing," said one Obama-era DOJ official.
By Jacqueline Thomsen
1 minute read
April 14, 2021 | Connecticut Law Tribune
While some conservatives argue the third-party payments could be "slush funds," a Sidley Austin partner who has worked on the settlements said those concerns are "based on fears, cartoons of how things might work."
By Jacqueline Thomsen
1 minute read
April 9, 2021 | National Law Journal
Eighteen of the commission members clerked at the Supreme Court for current or former justices including Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Antonin Scalia, John Roberts Jr., Clarence Thomas, Elena Kagan, David Souter, Thurgood Marshall and John Paul Stevens.
By Marcia Coyle | Jacqueline Thomsen
1 minute read
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