Update - Aug 11
You may find the following of interest:
- On August 9, 2025, the Second Circuit explained why it rejected the government’s motion to substitute the United States as a party in the defamation action against President Trump by E. Jean Carroll. The motion was based on the claim that Trump was acting in the scope of his official duties when he made the underlying statements.
- On August 11, 2025, Judge Dabney Friedrich of the federal district court of DC issued a memorandum opinion regarding an order to enjoin the withholding of funds previously approved by Congress for the National Endowment for Democracy, a nonprofit that supports democratic institutions and individual liberties across the globe and to confirm the disbursement of funds on or before August 13.
- On August 11, 2025, Dorf on Law substack,Michael C. Dorf wrote the column entitled, Do Class Actions Circumvent SCOTUS Ruling Against Universal Injunctions or Solve the Problems Associated With Such Injunctions?, which a good follow-up to Rob Frank’s presentation last Thursday.
- On August 11, 2025, a Washington Post report entitled, Inside science labs trying to survive in the Trump era. The final two paragraphs are
- She’s an inventor named on nearly 250 patents. She just scooped up one of the most prestigious prizes in biomedical research, with a $2.7 million award. She should be on top of the world.
- But as she walked to her lab on a recent Tuesday, she gestured sadly at a collection of empty champagne bottles sitting high up above the cabinets in the lounge outside. Each bottle, she noted, is a trained graduate student — a reminder that most of next year’s class was turned away.
- On August 10, 2025, The Hill report by Tara Suter, entitled Former Surgeon General on HHS canceling vaccine research: ‘Over 2 million lives have been saved because of mRNA technology’.
- On August 9, 2025, New York Focus report by Ferdi Ferhat Özsoy entitled, Did New York City Record Its Lowest Number of Shootings and Homicides in the First Half of 2025? The response is yes.
- On August 11, 2025, The Atlantic column by Quinta Jurecic entitled, Trump’s Farcical D.C. Crackdown. The author argues that His law-enforcement surge is a show of weakness, not power. One paragraph reads
The idea of armed officers under presidential control patrolling the streets of a free city is not a reassuring one. So far, however, the surge in law enforcement—which began a few days ago, before this morning’s announcement—appears mostly farcical. Footage from WUS9, a local news station, showed a pack of Drug Enforcement Administration agents lumbering awkwardly along the Mall in bulletproof vests as joggers streaked past. (For those unfamiliar with D.C., the Mall—a green expanse frequented by tourists and ice-cream trucks—is not exactly a hotbed of crime, especially on a sunny summer morning.) Near my quiet neighborhood in D.C.’s Northwest quadrant, federal officers have been patrolling a tiny park whose chief menace, in my experience, has been the occasional abandoned chicken bone scarfed down by my dog. Over the weekend, I watched a Secret Service car drive slowly in circles around my block. At first I assumed that the