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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 21h

DOJ's move to accuse Minnesota judges of misconduct for speaking about Trump’s immigration crackdown marks the latest escalation of the administration's clash against a judiciary that has stymied parts of its agenda -- building on the president's history of lashing out against judges buff.ly/ApKnkz6

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DOJ Deepens Clash With Judiciary That Has Blocked Trump Agenda

A move by the US Justice Department to accuse Minnesota judges of misconduct for speaking publicly about President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown marks the latest escalation of a conflict…

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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A (belated) hello from the US trade court in NYC, where this morning DOJ faced skeptical questions about the legal foundation underpinning President Trump’s latest global tariffs, once again putting one of his signature economic policies under a judicial microscope www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Glass exterior of US Court of International Trade

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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

New: A Trump plan to cut millions of dollars in federal funding approved by Congress using a controversial budgeting maneuver faces a legal challenge on the eve of the end of the fiscal year, when the money is set to expire buff.ly/AEmI2gO Suit: buff.ly/envW2nW

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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

New: The US Supreme Court for now let the Trump administration resume deporting undocumented people to countries other than their own with little if any notice. The court will hear arguments on the issue in December. From Greg Stohr: buff.ly/GTiUOjx

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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

NEW: A US appeals court has refused to halt a Florida federal judge’s decision to penalize President Trump and his lawyers for “bad faith” conduct in pursuing a $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS and reaching a deal to end it buff.ly/OXdHNe2 Order: buff.ly/tgeDcj4

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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

DOJ alerted a judge that the State Dept. notified Congress about expanding access to passport records for "voter eligibility" uses, but didn't share full details. Bloomberg obtained the doc, which IDs users as fed/state/local gov't agencies as well as non-profits www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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US Seeks to Expand Access to Passport Records for Voter Checks

The US State Department is moving to give state and local officials, as well as potentially some nonprofit organizations, access to passport records to verify voters’ citizenship.

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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

NEW: The State Department is moving to expand access to passport records for federal, state and local officials, as well as potentially non-profit orgs, to verify "voter eligibility," according to a nonpublic notice sent to Congress this week obtained by Bloomberg www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Latest: White House says it restored access to reporters from banned media outlets following a judge's overnight temporary restraining order www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Update: Reporters say they're still being denied access this morning despite the judge's order bsky.app/profile/zoet...

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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Deep dive: President Trump is pursuing extraordinary legal tactics to assert greater federal control over US elections, testing the boundaries of Washington's power over how Americans vote as his Republican Party seeks to keep its majority in Congress this fall buff.ly/tThSESQ

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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Also overnight: bsky.app/profile/zoet...

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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"This is a high bar, but Plaintiffs have met it." Overnight: A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to temporarily lift a ban on journalists from CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House buff.ly/IdkMV6I Order: buff.ly/Hhqzihm

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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

NEW: Democratic Party leadership and national campaign organizations filed a lawsuit accusing the Trump administration of unlawfully threatening to send armed federal agents to polling places in the November midterms buff.ly/bAsOgfy Complaint: buff.ly/mFNuyKJ

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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Today in court: A judge expressed skepticism of the Trump administration’s argument that the president had valid national security grounds for banning three news outlets from the White House, but didn’t immediately rule; notice/due process was another sticking point buff.ly/qSKi6yl

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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

NEW: President Trump is pursuing extraordinary legal tactics to expand federal control over elections, testing the boundaries of Washington's power as Republicans seek to keep a majority in Congress -- and lay the groundwork for 2028. A deep dive: buff.ly/tThSESQ

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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

New: A judge suggested a court-appointed "neutral" overseer could allay concerns that DOJ might try to use a long-standing US fund to revive scrapped plans for a special $1.8B pool to compensate Trump supporters as victims of government "weaponization." On today's court action: buff.ly/V06Uzi2

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Judge Floats US Fund Oversight Amid Trump ‘Weaponization’ Flap

A federal judge suggested a court-appointed “neutral” overseer could allay concerns that the Justice Department might use a long-standing US fund to revive plans to compensate supporters of President…

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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

NEW, with more to come: The US Supreme Court refused to clear the Postal Service to enforce new restrictions on mail-in ballots for the midterms, rebuffing the Trump administration’s request to intervene after several states launched early voting. Story: buff.ly/QNc1i5J Order: buff.ly/huVWfAe

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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Today in court: Former CIA Director John Brennan’s lawyers told a judge he faces a “real” threat of prosecution, citing a new subpoena for him to testify before a grand jury in Florida; a judge had tough questions about Brennan's ask that she order officials to preserve records now buff.ly/qwfju9b

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Ex-CIA Director Seeks Evidence Protection as DOJ Probe Escalates

Former CIA Director John Brennan’s lawyers told a judge that he faces a “real” threat of prosecution under the Trump administration, saying he’s received a subpoena to testify before a grand jury in…

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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

While you (and I) were sleeping: Trump faced a fresh setback in his push to overhaul mail voting ahead of the midterms, with another judge blocking the Postal Service from enforcing new mail-in ballot rules as SCOTUS weighs whether to step in buff.ly/BL429bh Midnight order: buff.ly/uL9FhMl

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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

NEW: A federal appeals court denied the Trump administration’s request to let the Postal Service enforce new restrictions for mail-in ballots in the November midterms, handing DOJ another setback as it urges the Supreme Court to intervene buff.ly/gGtUnBR Order: buff.ly/GyTGX3s

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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The US Supreme Court again blocked Missouri from using a congressional map engineered by GOP lawmakers in the midterm elections, the latest twist in a multifaceted legal fight that has cast uncertainty over how districts will be drawn for the November vote. From Madlin Mekelburg: buff.ly/GsG1721

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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

US judge ordered Trump admin to pay $160K in legal fees in a case re: Venezuelan deported in what the court found was a violation of a settlement re: unaccompanied migrant children: buff.ly/Ks2JNQW Deep dive on the millions of dollars in fee demands facing this administration: buff.ly/VeDdTmV

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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

NEW: DOJ asked SCOTUS to allow the Trump administration to resume expansion of a database available to states to verify voter citizenship. DC fed judge found feds "knowingly trampled on the privacy rights of American citizens in a manner that threatens the sacred right to vote" buff.ly/TKzh5Hx

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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

NEW: A US judge blocked the Postal Service from enforcing new limits on mail-in voting through the Nov. 3 midterms, extending a short-term pause as North Carolina began sending ballots on Friday and the Justice Department was urging the Supreme Court to intervene www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

New: A federal judge ordered DOJ to disclose the names of the people who came up with the structure for a controversial fund that could have been used to pay allies of President Donald Trump. Here's Jimmy Jenkins' dispatch from Virginia today: buff.ly/1akfgfX

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Judge Orders US to Name Architects of Trump ‘Weaponization’ Fund

A federal judge ordered the US Justice Department to disclose the names of the people who came up with the structure for a controversial fund that could have been used to pay allies of President…

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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

NEW: The Trump administration asked the US Supreme Court to let the Postal Service enforce new rules for mail-in ballots ahead of the November midterms, a move that some states warn would wreak havoc as they prep to send ballots to voters in the coming days buff.ly/w9fGrBa Filing: buff.ly/vIDQh3o

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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

NEW: Less than 24 hours before a key milestone for mail-in voting in the US midterm elections, states are bracing for late-breaking developments in a legal battle over federal control of the process, including possible intervention from the Supreme Court www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-03/fight-over-trump-s-mail-ballot-curbs-runs-into-midterm-deadlines?srnd=undefined

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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

NEW: A US judge blocked the Trump administration from carrying out for now the president’s latest effort to impose new limits on automatic birthright citizenship after losing an earlier legal fight before the Supreme Court www.bloomberg.com/news/article... Ruling: assets.bwbx.io/documents/us...

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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

New: SCOTUS let President Trump keep building his White House ballroom for now, brushing aside lower court findings that he is likely violating the law -- the majority split with Chief Justice Roberts on challengers' standing www.bloomberg.com/news/article... Order: assets.bwbx.io/documents/us...

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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

"untenable" A frustrated judge chastised DOJ today for failing to fully comply with info + doc demands in a lawsuit re: the deal to end Trump's $10B IRS claims - incl. names of people involved in the "conception" of the settlement. Govt gets a week to sort this before judge steps in buff.ly/weskpzT

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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Up to the 1st Circuit we go (again): The Trump administration is appealing a judge’s order halting new US Postal Service restrictions on mail-in ballots, moving quickly to reinstate the contested rules after they were paused in a high-stakes clash ahead of the November midterms buff.ly/TTuO6o6

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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

"...dwarfed by the overwhelming risk of pervasive disenfranchisement" A US judge temporarily blocked the Postal Service from enforcing key parts of new restrictions on mail-in ballots, pausing rules designed to carry out President Trump's directives ahead of the November midterms buff.ly/MJRlmNk

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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Latest on the USPS mail ballot rules fight: DOJ filed its opposition to requests for a Boston judge to temporarily block the new US Postal Service rules as she decides whether to impose a longer-term injunction (hearing on that is set for 9/3) Brief: buff.ly/8YtH7XK Earlier story: buff.ly/I923XOr

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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

NEW: Fed Governor Lisa Cook again denied unproven mortgage fraud allegations repeated by President Trump as he considers whether to renew his effort to oust her -- a move likely to set off another contentious legal battle over the central bank’s independence buff.ly/NHa7P1l Letter: buff.ly/MVO3r7t

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Fed’s Cook Denies Wrongdoing as Trump Revives Push to Fire Her

Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook again denied unproven mortgage fraud allegations repeated by President Donald Trump as he considers whether to renew his effort to remove her, which likely launches…

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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Things continue to move fast and somewhat confusingly in the aftermath of the SCOTUS decision in the fight over Trump's effort to impose new mail voting rules for November. Story: www.bloomberg.com/news/article... Where things stand:

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Democrats Make New Push to Stop Trump Bid to Curb Mail Ballots

Democrats made a fresh push to keep President Donald Trump from using the US Postal Service to curb mail-in voting this year in a multifaceted legal fight likely to move swiftly back to the Supreme Co...

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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

NEW: The US Supreme Court delivered a jolt to the impending midterm elections -- reviving (but not definitively ruling on) President Trump’s push to restrict mail-in voting while creating a tangle of new legal and logistical questions as many states prepare to start sending ballots buff.ly/CNHjYpG

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-25/trump-s-supreme-court-win-on-mail-voting-leaves-legal-mess?srnd=undefined

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Josh Sisco @sisco.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Some news! I'm pausing the antitrust beat to work on Bloomberg's stellar national team, covering CA through Nov. Pumped to cover the worlds best state. Still covering the Paramount deal. Also particularly interested in all things housing joshsisco.75 on signal. Grateful for all ideas and tips!

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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

NEW: The Trump administration can continue to collect tariffs on low-dollar imports, a US trade court ruled today. Trump’s suspension of a tariff carve-out for goods valued at $800 or less had led to more than $1 billion in duty payments by the end of 2025, according to CBP buff.ly/MqW8HoA

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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Overnight: President Donald Trump has asked a federal appeals court to pause a judge’s order imposing sanctions on him and his lawyers for how they handled his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service while he appeals that ruling buff.ly/KyFJoAn Filing: buff.ly/0QFWufT

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Trump Seeks Immediate Halt to Judge’s Penalties in IRS Case

President Donald Trump has asked a federal appeals court to pause a judge’s order imposing sanctions on him and his lawyers for how they handled his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue…

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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

New: A judge entered a nationwide order blocking the US Postal Service from carrying out Trump’s directive to overhaul mail-in voting policies before the midterms, expanding an earlier halt that covered roughly half the country www.bloomberg.com/news/article... Order: assets.bwbx.io/documents/us...

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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

New: President Donald Trump’s latest move to restrict automatic citizenship is facing a legal challenge, months after the Supreme Court knocked down his earlier attempt at upending longstanding guarantees for children born in the US to non-citizens buff.ly/doYFLg9 Doc: buff.ly/nlzcFKc

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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

NEW: The Kennedy Center was ordered to pay more than $250,000 in legal fees to a jazz musician who canceled a Christmas Eve concert over the venue’s move to add President Donald Trump’s name, after a judge dismissed the center's lawsuit buff.ly/LDrLVxv Order: buff.ly/tlyooEJ

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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Weekend read: Million-dollar lawsuits are piling up from people who received clemency from Trump for charges in connection with Jan. 6. One the latest suits includes a man prev. convicted of seditious conspiracy in the Oath Keepers extremist group prosecution www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

NEW: Million-dollar lawsuits are mounting from people who received clemency from Trump for charges in connection with Jan. 6. New suit filed today includes a man convicted of seditious conspiracy in the Oath Keepers case; a judge "reluctantly" let DOJ end that prosecution this week buff.ly/prwmILx

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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

A federal appeals court ruled that Trump can't move ahead with the White House ballroom project without approval from Congress. Now what? The DC Circuit gave DOJ 14 days to try to take this fight to SCOTUS buff.ly/jggurjM Today's 2-1 opinion: buff.ly/ijL8UnL

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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

NEW: DOJ is facing a legal challenge to the move to immunize President Trump, several Trump family members and the Trump Organization from investigations into past tax filings. Amended complaint filed today in a case originally focused on the $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization" fund: buff.ly/yH6jLJI

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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

NEW: The New Mexico attorney general’s office filed a lawsuit accusing top DOJ officials of "stonewalling" a state criminal investigation into the late, disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein and his associates. Story: buff.ly/LLnMVHT Complaint: buff.ly/iV3k28C

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