Michelle Olsen

Tweeting re SCOTUS and federal appeals. Attorney, alum BigLaw SCOTUS and federal government. Posting more politics than I would like lately. But I am concerned.

[PBS News @NewsHour]

NEW: President Donald Trump's name must come off the Kennedy Center by June 12, according to a memo issued to the national arts center staff Thursday following a court ruling that found the rebrand was illegal. https://t.co/qxOhSc1Eq1

[Liz Landers @ElizLanders]

PBS News has obtained a memo that was sent today to Kennedy Center staff that says that President Trump’s name has to be removed from Kennedy Center signage, promo materials, website, etc. It must happen by June 12, according to the center’s office of general counsel.

[Orin Kerr @OrinKerr]

It is always wild to me, listening to pre-80s Supreme Court arguments, that advocates can speak for 20 minutes without interruption, except perhaps to have a Justice ask a question about what is the record. It's like another universe.

[ABC News @ABC]

An appellate court in New York has upheld a $4.3 million judgment imposed on former National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre after he was found liable of misappropriating money. https://t.co/cXR3bt2Jlu

[Dan Epps @danepps]

Wow. @SSRN is over. This is quite unfortunate, and infuriating. Law profs, we need a replacement.

https://t.co/x55YiLeQ1k

[Suzanne Monyak @SuzanneMonyak]

New: House Judiciary chair Jim Jordan told me his staff has “already put together a memo” on facts related to misconduct findings against Judge Eleanor Ross, who had an in-chambers affair.

Asked about impeachment, he said "everything’s on the table." https://t.co/4JF5JJHrsL

[Mike Scarcella @MikeScarcella]

US prosecutors seek 8-year prison term for ex-Supreme Court lawyer Tom Goldstein https://t.co/QqlmYnN2W5

[David Folkenflik @davidfolkenflik]

NEWS: Just fired veteran correspondent Scott Pelley says 60 Minutes has lost its DNA

He alleges new CBS News management "instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story" this season. (He says he ignored or refused.)

FULL STATEMENT

[Robert Anderson @ProfRobAnderson]

Interesting recent Ninth Circuit case where the court applied maritime law to a cruise passenger’s injury, even though the injury occurred on land and therefore no admiralty jurisdiction. The reason? A cruise ticket choice-of-law clause applying maritime law.

[The Associated Press @AP]

CBS News fires longtime “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley a day after he allegedly said Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss was “murdering the show.” https://t.co/lmL0oeDi5j

[Ben Mullin @BenMullin]

Scott Pelley’s full statement: “The waste is heartbreaking.”

https://t.co/EX2IinuLlv

[UVA Law School @UVALaw]

With a key National Labor Relations Board case looming at the 6th Circuit, Prof. Xiao Wang discusses the temperament of the bench. @BLaw @xwang1987 https://t.co/cqa2yjck9Y

[Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein]

BREAKING: By a 6-3 vote, #SCOTUS will allow Alabama to use its never-implemented 2023 districts in this year's elections. They're likely to result in a 6-1, R-D split and the loss of 1 of 2 majority Black AL districts. Doc: https://t.co/GQBJsMmeJe Earlier: https://t.co/0W2HPLC0yh

[Howard Mortman @HowardMortman]

Time now for the C-SPAN @cspanradio podcast Extreme Mortman trivia question!
During 1999 Clinton Senate impeachment trial, Rehnquist wore gold braids on robes - inspired by Gilbert Sullivan musical.
Name that musical!
Answer in NEW episode June 2.
ExMo wherever you get podcasts

[Bloomberg Law @BLaw]

Fifth Circuit judges appeared skeptical in a hearing of SkyWest Airlines Inc.'s request for a new trial in a sexual harassment case due to what the airline has said was the EEOC’s misuse of text messages as evidence. https://t.co/HV3QzixcEp

[Orin Kerr @OrinKerr]

Reading a legal opinion when suddenly you're like. https://t.co/EsI3m1eObJ

[Norm Eisen @NormEisen]

BREAKING: we are NOT accepting media reports as proof that the $1.8B slush fund & "settlements" associated with it are dead

That's why we @DDFund_ have just filed a new lawsuit to make sure this ENDS --on behalf of former J6 prosecutors with Platkin LLP, WLG & Heaphy Smith

[John Elwood @johnpelwood]

Today's #SCOTUS grant in the prisoner case is previewed below. This case started out pro se until Paul Weiss (and then Davis Polk) sweeped in to assist.

[SCOTUSblog @SCOTUSblog]

The court on Monday morning added one new case to its argument docket for the 2026-27 term, granting another case involving the First Step Act, a 2018 law intended to improve federal prison conditions and reduce long federal prison sentences.

https://t.co/Ly2b693J99

[John Elwood @johnpelwood]

Very pleased by my firm's role in winning today's #SCOTUS summary reversal in Whitton v. Dixon, a capital case. And combining my two hats, the case had been relisted 9 times.