Todd Blanche’s Confirmation Is Being Held Up By… Todd Blanche
Todd Blanche has spent the better part of his confirmation process insisting that the $1.8 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund — otherwise known as the Trump slush fun — is dead. He said so under sworn testimony. He privately told Senators Durbin and Blumenthal it was “a...
DHS General Counsel Names Four Federal Judges ‘Worst Of The Worst’ As Threats Against Judiciary Hit 564
The Department of Homeland Security runs a recurring social media feature called “Worst of the Worst,” in which it names individual immigrants it has deported and catalogs their alleged crimes. It’s a public relations effort to distract from the fact that 99 percent...
Pro Bono Asylum Wins are Harder to Come by Amid Regulatory Whiplash, Uncertain Timelines and Strained Bandwidth
Big Law pro bono departments don’t have a complicated relationship with asylum work, leaders say; instead, it’s the work that’s becoming more complicated, with asylum cases unfolding over years as the Trump administration overhauls the nation’s...
How Gibson Dunn Landed Wachtell’s Savitt in Six-Partner Move
The lateral move started with coffee. “Bill has always been on the top of my list, said Gibson Dunn chair and managing partner Barbara Becker in an interview. The lateral move started with coffee. “Bill has always been on the top of my list, said Gibson Dunn...
