{"id":145530,"date":"2026-03-06T17:13:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T01:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/03\/06\/incompetence-and-chaos-former-judge-torches-dojs-litigation-meltdown-in-biglaw-executive-orders-case\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T17:13:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T01:13:50","slug":"incompetence-and-chaos-former-judge-torches-dojs-litigation-meltdown-in-biglaw-executive-orders-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/03\/06\/incompetence-and-chaos-former-judge-torches-dojs-litigation-meltdown-in-biglaw-executive-orders-case\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Incompetence And Chaos\u2019: Former Judge Torches DOJ\u2019s Litigation Meltdown In Biglaw Executive Orders Case"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

[It\u2019s] unprecedented in my experience for a party to withdraw their appeal, and 24 hours later to say, \u2018Oops, I made a mistake.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

It seems to show a level of incompetence and chaos in the Department of Justice. They simply don\u2019t seem to know what they\u2019re doing, and maybe one person doesn\u2019t speak to another person.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0Shira Scheindlin<\/a>, of counsel at Boies Schiller Flexner and former judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, in comments given to the American Lawyer<\/a>, concerning the\u00a0Department of Justice withdrawing<\/a>\u00a0from its defense of its executive orders targeted against Perkins Coie, WilmerHale, Susman Godfrey, and Jenner & Block, which resulted in a\u00a0flip-flop less than 24 hours later<\/a>, with the DOJ crawling back to withdraw its motion to voluntarily dismiss the appeals of its cases against the Biglaw firms.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to\u00a0email<\/a>\u00a0her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post \u2018Incompetence And Chaos\u2019: Former Judge Torches DOJ\u2019s Litigation Meltdown In Biglaw Executive Orders Case<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

[It\u2019s] unprecedented in my experience for a party to withdraw their appeal, and 24 hours later to say, \u2018Oops, I made a mistake.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

It seems to show a level of incompetence and chaos in the Department of Justice. They simply don\u2019t seem to know what they\u2019re doing, and maybe one person doesn\u2019t speak to another person.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0Shira Scheindlin<\/a>, of counsel at Boies Schiller Flexner and former judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, in comments given to the American Lawyer<\/a>, concerning the\u00a0Department of Justice withdrawing<\/a>\u00a0from its defense of its executive orders targeted against Perkins Coie, WilmerHale, Susman Godfrey, and Jenner & Block, which resulted in a\u00a0flip-flop less than 24 hours later<\/a>, with the DOJ crawling back to withdraw its motion to voluntarily dismiss the appeals of its cases against the Biglaw firms.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to\u00a0email<\/a>\u00a0her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post \u2018Incompetence And Chaos\u2019: Former Judge Torches DOJ\u2019s Litigation Meltdown In Biglaw Executive Orders Case<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day. [It\u2019s] unprecedented in my experience for a party to withdraw their appeal, and 24 hours later to say, \u2018Oops, I made a mistake.\u2019 It seems to show a level of incompetence and chaos in the Department of Justice. They simply don\u2019t seem to know what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":145531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Staci-Zaretsky-Zmps3e.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}