“As If These Blunders Were Not Enough,” U.S. Attorney Office Management …

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From Judge Beryl Howell’s long opinion last week in U.S. v. Thompson; read the full opinion for details (and see here for more on the Speedy Trial Act, which provides more specific time limits and procedures than does the Sixth Amendment’s Speedy Trial Clause): The government’s pending motion to dismiss without prejudice the indictment against defendant Adrian Thompson amounts to nothing more than a strategic attempt to circumvent the Speedy Trial Act in circumstances where noncompliance with this statute was inevitable and due entirely to the government’s own mismanagement of this case. After defendant was first arrested in 2024 and…

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Chainalysis Sues US Government Over $94.6M ICE Contract Handed to Rival TRM Labs

In brief Chainalysis Government Solutions filed a bid protest on July 27 challenging ICE’s roughly $94.6 million sole-source contract awarded to rival TRM Labs. TRM Labs intervened on July 28 to defend the award alongside the government; Chainalysis’s core complaint remains under seal to protect trade secrets. ICE justified the award by saying a roughly six-day market-research window found none of the eight responding companies could match TRM’s capabilities. Chainalysis has taken the U.S. government to court over a nearly $95 million Immigration and Customs Enforcement contract awarded to competitor TRM Labs without an open bidding process, pitting the two…

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Curtail the Cult of Judicial Celebrity

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This summer I have spent some time proposing different reform of the Supreme Court that have nothing to do with its composition or jurisdiction. As I often say, the clearest way to affect how the Justices do their job is…

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