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Celine Castronuovo

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Reporter @bloomberglaw.com covering the Justice Department | ccastronuovo@bloombergindustry.com

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Celine Castronuovo @ccastronuovo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
DOJ’s gutted Civil Rights Division is rebuilding with lawyers steeped in conservative advocacy and Republican politics with a new mission to wage partisan fights and defend gun rights, a @bloomberglaw.com analysis found. With @suzannemonyak.bsky.social: news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
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Civil Rights Recast Under Trump’s Vision of Justice Department
The Justice Department’s gutted Civil Rights Division is rebuilding with lawyers steeped in conservative advocacy and Republican politics with a new mission to wage partisan fights and defend gun rights, a Bloomberg Law analysis found.
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Celine Castronuovo @ccastronuovo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
DOJ’s immigration judges are repeatedly giving unaccompanied children three weeks or less to find attorneys before deciding to move forward with their cases, more than half a dozen immigration lawyers and former judges told me. Latest for @bloomberglaw.com: news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
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Immigration Judges Speed Through Migrant Children Removal Cases
A Guatemalan teen learned in a Manhattan immigration court hearing that he had just under two weeks to complete an asylum application — in a language he didn’t know.
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Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
“This CYA motion is an attempt to prevent the court from engaging in the kind of scrutiny that frankly the court needs to pursue anyway at this point,” Washington University's Kathleen Clark tells @ccastronuovo.bsky.social
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Andrew Kreighbaum @kreighbaum.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
In the wake of a Supreme Court loss on birthright citizenship, Trump officials are planning a renewed crackdown on birth tourism. @ccastronuovo.bsky.social and I report on what a enforcement will look like at the State Department and DOJ. #immigration #birthtourism #citizenship
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Trump Targets ‘Birth Tourism’ After Birthright Citizenship Loss
The Trump administration and Republican allies are aiming to block foreign nationals from traveling to the US with the purpose of giving birth in the wake of the president’s Supreme Court loss on birt...
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Celine Castronuovo @ccastronuovo.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The head of DOJ’s Civil Rights Division is advancing an anti-DEI approach in university admissions probes that goes beyond SCOTUS’ landmark ruling upending affirmative action, civil rights lawyers and former government attorneys told me. For @bloomberglaw.com: news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
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DOJ’s Dhillon Tests Supreme Court Precedent in Admissions Probes
The head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division is advancing an anti-DEI approach in investigations of university admissions that goes beyond the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling upending af...
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Ben Penn @benjaminpenn.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Scoop with @ccastronuovo.bsky.social: Pete Hegseth has authorized forced deployments of reservists as DOJ immigration judges. Email to marine reserves seeks "volunteers for involuntary orders." news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
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Hegseth Moves to Order Military Lawyers to be Immigration Judges
The Defense Department is planning to begin involuntarily activating military lawyers to serve as immigration judges and to represent the government in cases involving detained migrant children, accor...
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Ben Penn @benjaminpenn.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
SCOOP: Stephen Miller was driving force behind DOJ memo eroding decades of disability rights protections. His push was rooted in view (not backed by evidence) that de-institutionalizing people w/ disabilities increases homelessness. w/ @ccastronuovo.bsky.social news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
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Stephen Miller Said to Drive DOJ Memo Eroding Disability Rights
White House adviser Stephen Miller was the driving force behind the Justice Department’s recent memo authorizing states to institutionalize people with disabilities rather than fund community-based ca...
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Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Seamless Ken Paxton-Justice Department-Judge Reed O'Connor same-day sequence today echoes another last year against in-state tuition for undocumented students, @ccastronuovo.bsky.social reports news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
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Texas Judge Blocks Biden-Era DOJ Rule on Migrant Removals (1)
A conservative federal judge in Texas on Monday ruled against a Biden-era rule codifying immigration judges’ authority to close migrants’ removal proceedings—hours after the state filed a lawsuit chal...
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Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
The Justice Department’s Harmeet Dhillon can extend the anti-DEI approach she’s championed under President Trump as the Education Department offloads key responsibilities, @tianaheadley.bsky.social and @ccastronuovo.bsky.social report news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
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DOJ’s Dhillon Widens Civil Rights Footprint in Education Deal
The Justice Department’s top civil rights enforcer can extend the anti-DEI approach she’s championed under President Donald Trump as the Education Department offloads key responsibilities.
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Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
for those interested in Wyoming US attorney's grand jury experiences, here's @ccastronuovo.bsky.social detailing it all on May 18 news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
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Court Tosses Charges Over Misconduct by Wyoming US Attorney (1)
Federal judges found President Donald Trump’s pick for US attorney in Wyoming committed misconduct by making “inflammatory” remarks to grand jurors ahead of indictments charging defendants with murder...
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Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Federal judges found Trump’s pick for Wyoming US attorney up for a floor vote today committed misconduct by making “inflammatory” remarks to grand jurors ahead of indictments charging defendants with murder, and other crimes, @ccastronuovo.bsky.social reports news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
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Court Tosses Indictments Over Misconduct by Wyoming US Attorney
Federal judges found President Donald Trump’s pick for US attorney in Wyoming committed misconduct by making “inflammatory” remarks to grand jurors ahead of indictments charging defendants with murder...
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Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Former FBI Director James Comey can overcome the Trump administration’s latest indictment against him by arguing the social media post that spurred federal charges counts as protected political speech, @ccastronuovo.bsky.social reports news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
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Protected Speech Hurdle Complicates Trump Charges Against Comey
Former FBI Director James Comey can easily overcome the Trump administration’s latest indictment against him by arguing the social media post that spurred federal charges counts as protected political...
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Andrew Kreighbaum @kreighbaum.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
The Trump budget proposal released Friday would elevate the DOL office that oversees work visa programs, back expansion of immigrant detention, and boost funding to immigration courts. @ccastronuovo.bsky.social, Angelica Franganillo Diaz, and I break down the highlights:
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Trump Budget’s Immigration Goals Boost Processing, Enforcement
The Trump administration is seeking to elevate the US Labor Department office charged with ensuring foreign hiring doesn’t undermine American workers by making it report directly to the secretary of l...
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Ben Penn @benjaminpenn.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Another federal district court panel has declined to approve a Trump US attorney, this time Western Virginia's acting chief prosecutor Robert Tracci who replaced Trump's first pick after he got pushed out. Story from @ccastronuovo.bsky.social: news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
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Judges Turn Down Extension of Virginia US Attorney’s Acting Term
The US District Court for the Western District of Virginia announced Friday that it will not extend the acting US attorney’s term, making it the latest court to withhold approval of a prosecutor installed by the Trump administration.
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Ben Penn @benjaminpenn.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Well before DOJ workload crisis defending detained migrant petitions spilled into public view in MN, 6 US attorneys warned judiciary of the resource-draining flood. Predictably, it has since exploded. Story w/ @ccastronuovo.bsky.social & Megan Crepeau: news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
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US Attorneys Decry Resource Strain From Migrant Detention Cases
Six US attorneys warned a “flood” of litigation by migrants challenging their detention has created a “substantial drain on the resources” of their offices in declarations filed in December with the U...
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Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Le said she was “put on this special mission to help” the US attorney’s office with habeas claims on Jan. 5. “They are overwhelmed and they need help,” Le said, adding that she “stupidly” volunteered. Her detail has now ended, reports @ccastronuovo.bsky.social news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
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DOJ Takes Lawyer Who Said ‘Job Sucks’ Off Minnesota Detail (1)
The Justice Department removed an attorney from a detail with the US attorney’s office in Minnesota after she expressed frustration with Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s noncompliance with court ...
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Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Julie Le compared pushing ICE and DHS to comply as pulling teeth and said she wished the judge would hold her in contempt so she could get 24 hours of sleep, reports @ccastronuovo.bsky.social. Credit to FOX9's Paul Blume for having it first news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
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Government Lawyer in ICE Case Tells Judge: ‘This Job Sucks’
A US government attorney expressed unusual frustration in a courtroom proceeding about the difficulty in ensuring Immigration and Customs Enforcement complies with rulings ordering the release of migr...
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Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
“Government lawyers’ indifference to the ethical restrictions invites defendants to argue that the prosecutions are vindictive, the prosecutors are biased, and the proceedings are unfair,” Fordham's Bruce Green tells @ccastronuovo.bsky.social news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
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DOJ Posts Touting Lemon Arrest Risk Eroding Credibility in Court
The Justice Department’s boasts on social media of federal charges against protesters and journalists in Minnesota is undermining the Trump administration’s credibility in court, legal ethics scholars...
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Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Harmeet Dhillon is using social media to single out anti-DEI targets, an approach former division lawyers say is at odds with DOJ attorneys’ responsibility to carefully vet discrimination claims, @ccastronuovo.bsky.social reports news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
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DOJ Civil Rights Chief Scrolls Social Media for Anti-DEI Targets
The Justice Department’s top civil rights enforcer is using social media to single out anti-DEI targets, an approach former division lawyers say is at odds with career attorneys’ responsibility to car...
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