Erica Orden

New York

Legal Reporter at POLITICO

Legal reporter at Politico, covering SDNY, etc. Priors: @CNN, @WSJ. I'm good at weaseling my way to the front of a gaggle. DMs are open.

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Boasberg finds probable cause to hold Trump officials in criminal contempt over deportation flights

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Hassan Kanu |Erica Orden |Josh Gerstein

A federal judge on Wednesday found probable cause to hold Trump administration officials in criminal contempt for what he said was a “willful disregard” of his order to stop transferring deportees to El Salvador for imprisonment in a notorious maximum security prison. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg found that the government last month rushed to fly two planes carrying hundreds of passengers to the Salvadoran prison in the hours after the judge barred the government from doing so.
Schumer moves to block Trump's top prosecutors

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Hailey Fuchs |Erica Orden

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is seeking to block confirmation for President Donald Trump’s nominees for top federal prosecutors in New York. His hard line comes as he's facing mounting pressure from his party’s base to push back against the Trump administration more aggressively following his decision last month to allow a GOP-drafted government funding bill to advance rather than use his leverage and threaten a shutdown.
Schumer moves to block Trump's top prosecutors

1 week ago | politico.com | Hailey Fuchs |Erica Orden

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is seeking to block confirmation for President Donald Trump’s nominees for top federal prosecutors in New York. His hard line comes as he’s facing mounting pressure from his party’s base to push back against the Trump administration more aggressively following his decision last month to allow a GOP-drafted government funding bill to advance rather than use his leverage and threaten a shutdown.
2 judges limit Trump’s bid to deport ‘alien enemies’ in back-to-back rulings

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Erica Orden |Josh Gerstein |Kyle Cheney

NEW YORK — A federal judge in Texas on Wednesday blocked the Trump administration from deporting people designated as “alien enemies,” citing a Supreme Court ruling earlier this week and warning of the potential for “irreparable” mistakes.
Judge dismisses Eric Adams case, denying DOJ an opportunity to revive it later

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Erica Orden

A federal judge on Wednesday permanently dismissed the criminal case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, clinching a remarkable turn of fortune for the embattled Democrat who was indicted on corruption charges six months ago but was let off the hook when President Donald Trump’s Justice Department decided to stop prosecuting him.
Judge dismisses Eric Adams case, denying DOJ an opportunity to revive it later

3 weeks ago | politico.com | Erica Orden

The department wanted to drop the charges while retaining the right to refile them someday — an arrangement that could have given Trump powerful leverage over Adams.
Mahmoud Khalil’s case will move forward in New Jersey, judge rules

3 weeks ago | politico.com | Erica Orden

A federal judge declined the Trump administration’s request to move the case to Louisiana. Khalil, a recent Columbia University graduate student with a green card, says the administration is illegally trying to deport him as retaliation for his role in organizing campus protests of the Israel-Hamas war.
Mahmoud Khalil’s lawyer urges NJ judge not to transfer his case to Louisiana

3 weeks ago | politico.com | Erica Orden

The Trump administration wants the case moved to Louisiana, where it would be under the jurisdiction of a conservative appeals court. Khalil, a recent Columbia University graduate student, helped organize pro-Palestinian campus protests.
Before resigning, top prosecutor drafted letter to Bondi in last-ditch bid to salvage Eric Adams case

1 month ago | politico.com | Erica Orden

The draft letter from former interim U.S. attorney Danielle Sassoon was revealed Tuesday in new court filings. New York City Mayor Eric Adams was charged last year in a five-count corruption case, but the Justice Department is seeking to dismiss the case.
Trump taps Alina Habba to be interim US attorney for New Jersey

1 month ago | politico.com | Gregory Svirnovskiy |Erica Orden

In recent months, she’s served as a White House defender amid its attempts to shrink the size of the federal government. Alina Habba is best known in Trump world for having represented him in three trials in recent years. | Pool photo by Julia Demaree Nikhinson President Donald Trump on Monday named Alina Habba, his current presidential counselor, as the interim U.S. attorney for New Jersey.