Josh Gerstein

Sr. Legal Affairs Reporter, @POLITICO.
Priors: ABC White House & China correspondent, CNN, NY Sun 🇺🇸🇦🇺[email protected]. Signal: joshgerstein.46

[Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein]

If you prefer to follow me on other platforms, going forward, most posts are also available on Threads https://t.co/Sqy06c0GeO and Bluesky https://t.co/676NQv9T43. I intend to keep posting here. Updates as conditions warrant. Thank you for your attention.

[Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein]

NEW: #SCOTUS says feds can't ban habitual users of marijuana from owning a gun, but leaves door open for bans aimed at other drugs. Unanimous win for Texas man prosecuted under 58-year-old law https://t.co/uDyLjp2M00

[Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein]

MAJOR TYPO: Illinois lawmakers accidentally granted $500 billion (!) to program run by Chicago branch of the NAACP, @ShiaKapos reports. Appears it was to be $500K and was later reduced to $250K but somehow rendered as $500,000,000,000. Gov line-item vetoed https://t.co/qYEpPTkWCi

[Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein]

@innercitypress Not sure. My state court experience there predates the internet era. @johnhawkinson or @nateraymond may know

[Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein]

@innercitypress Sounds like the MA procedure for sealing criminal records: post a notice publicly at the court for one week

[Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein]

@johnhawkinson @innercitypress @MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @rcfp @SeamusHughes I just know of many cases where the judge tells you to file a misc action

[Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein]

If one accepts this framing, then Obama's plane filled with $400M in cash also didn't give Iran a cent

[Donald Trump Jr. @DonaldJTrumpJr]

The only problem with this quote is that @tedcruz is lying thru his teeth about the deal. We're not giving them a cent and he knows that. Using fake news about the peace deal to undermine @realDonaldTrump is the opposite of MAGA.

[Jon Seidel @SeidelContent]

U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros responds to Rep. Jamie Raskin.

Boutros says there's "no doubt" that disciplinary bodies will look at "Broadview 6." He calls it a process "we fully support" and said he expects there to be no finding of misconduct by him "because there was none."

[Jacob Shamsian ⚖️ @JayShams]

SDNY judge declines to dismiss campaign finance indictment against former FTX consultant and politician Michelle Bond.

Bond claimed that prosecutors promised not to investigate her if her partner Ryan Salame pleaded guilty — then indicted her anyway. Judge doesn't buy it.

[Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein]

Judge denies fees to groups that fought 1st term Trump immigration policies, via @MikeScarcella
https://t.co/pnGTWd8kuJ

[Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein]

@johnhawkinson @innercitypress @MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @rcfp That is the policy in DC for any unsealing request. Fortunately the misc fee is fairly low, I think.

[Maya Kaufman @mayakauf]

NEW: We combed through @DOJFraudDiv's full #CDPAP lawsuit filed yesterday.

It paints the picture of a transition so troubled that workers inside and outside of NY state government repeatedly sounded the alarm — seemingly to no avail.
https://t.co/BI30dpNXyP

[Inner City Press @innercitypress]

OPEN THE COURTS - esp DDC: for weeks Inner City Press has sought unsealing in Lockerbie case USA v. al Maribi. First Judge Dabney Friedrich said she does not consider unsealing letters. Then Inner City Press filed a MISC case; she said, serve DOJ & FDs. Done. Now?

[Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein]

@brennanleach Where's his torch?

[Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein]

NEW: Trump admin takes rare step to quell controversy over prosecutorial misconduct in dropped criminal case against Chicago-area anti-ICE protesters. Feds won't fight defense demand to pay bill for activists' legal fees https://t.co/O7xRo1SsHr

[Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein]

@RetiredArmy2020 @kyledcheney 0 law school is one of the nation's best, though. Where'd you want people to go, Harvard?

[Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein]

NEW: Every politician who's scrutinized by DOJ claims they're being targeted for political reasons. Trump's approach adds fuel to that fire. Some ex-prosecutors even say we should presume probes like Newsom's are tainted til shown otherwise. w/@kyledcheney https://t.co/AwKOyCnRzB

[Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein]

JUST IN: Federal Circuit agrees to highly unusual initial en banc review in immigration judges' challenge to Trump claim he has presidential authority to fire them at will. Argument likely October or later, though. Doc: https://t.co/KrexRJBx7m

[Reuters Legal @ReutersLegal]

A federal judge on Tuesday barred Idaho from fully enforcing a new state law making it a crime, punishable by up to five years in prison, for transgender people to use public restrooms whose designations differ from their sex assigned at birth. https://t.co/cgez3slE2P

[Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein]

@MurdockJDF Did you take off three points for cooperation?

[Matt Laslo @MattLaslo]

NEWS: After I reported harassment, bullying and lying by @RTCACapitolHill last year, the nation’s TV Networks — @scrippsnews, @abcnews / @Disney, @NBCNews, @CNN, @MSNOWNews, etc — responded by banning my team from covering Congress this year. https://t.co/PEXAAMea78