Chris Geidner

3 days ago | lawdork.com | Chris Geidner

The U.S. Supreme Court is likely to reject an argument pressed by a key conservative lawyer on Monday that would end existing preventative care insurance coverage protections put in motion by the Affordable Care Act. At the same time, however, that outcome in the case would likely empower the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services to press for changes in the protections if the secretary so chooses — an area of concern given HHS Secretary Robert F.

4 days ago | lawdork.com | Chris Geidner

Beginning Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court is starting its last regular argument sitting of the term (aside from the added May 15 argument related to the litigation over President Donald Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship). The arguments — and the added May 15 argument, for that matter — are a good reminder of the nature of the current court — ever seeking to push the law rightward, regardless of the existence of the Trump administration.

6 days ago | lawdork.com | Chris Geidner

A little before 1 a.m. Saturday, the Supreme Court issued an order blocking the Trump administration from removing people from the United States who the administration has claimed or will claim are subject to President Donald Trump’s Alien Enemies Act proclamation and are in custody in the Northern District of Texas. It was an unusual order in an unusual moment.

6 days ago | lawdork.com | Chris Geidner

The Trump administration’s effort to fire more than 1,400 employees from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was put on hold Friday, per an order from U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson following a short hearing.

1 week ago | lawdork.com | Chris Geidner

A little before 3 p.m. Thursday, Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson, an 80-year-old Reagan appointee, explained for a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit how deeply, alarmingly wrong the Trump administration is with its actions regarding Kilmar Abrego Garcia. “It is difficult in some cases to get to the very heart of the matter. But in this case, it is not hard at all.