Todd Ruger

Legal affairs and immigration editor at CQ Roll Call (@cqnow, @rollcall). Supreme Court. Congress. Header photo: @pennstatetom. My book:

[Todd Ruger @ToddRuger]

We’re hiring a homeland security reporter to cover Capitol Hill for CQ and @rollcall. Come track the policy and politics of immigration and more in Congress (as well as in federal courts and agencies).

Apply through our parent company site: https://t.co/cciePHlri5

[Todd Ruger @ToddRuger]

Local fire on I-395 adding to the wildfire smoke. Unclear what it is.

[Todd Ruger @ToddRuger]

The Supreme Court releases its report on the Dobbs leak: The investigative team "has to date been unable to identify a person responsible by a preponderance of the evidence."

Read: https://t.co/vu5F7CaVI0

[Suzanne Monyak @SuzanneMonyak]

Inbox: @KenPaxtonTX announced a lawsuit against the Biden admin over its recent immigration rule clarifying the criteria to be deemed a “public charge” ineligible for a green card. Suit is latest in multipronged legal saga over the policy https://t.co/SAuEGFCySo

[Herb Jackson @HerbNJDC]

@metzgov Assume you're buying those photos from Getty to support the news outlets thst still employ photojournalists

[Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz]

Classic yes-and-no situation. On the one hand, they’re technically members-elect. On the other, they can vote on the floor, so …

[Niels Lesniewski @nielslesniewski]

Really is just remarkable that there are no duly chosen and sworn members of the House tonight.
https://t.co/iXsuuL5aoZ

[Roll Call @rollcall]

A federal appeals court on Thursday tossed out Donald Trump’s lawsuit to keep federal prosecutors from using documents the FBI seized in a search of the former president’s private club. https://t.co/6pOoPquMMY

[Mark Sherman @shermancourt]

4 #SCOTUS justices in attendance at black tie @FedSoc dinner, group says. Alito, Barrett, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh on hand. That’s 4/5 of the majority that overturned Roe in June. 1st time for Barrett as Justice

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Protesters supporting abortion rights briefly interrupt oral argument, via @SCOTUSblog https://t.co/r9ofSUV5EY

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NEW: Supreme Court denies Sen. Lindsey Graham's bid to have them stop his testimony to a Georgia grand jury about the 2020 election and calls he made to state elections officials.

Background:https://t.co/sV1pEcJqv1

[Caroline Coudriet @cscoudriet]

Big tech leaders are pushing Congress to enact immigration changes before the end of the year as a follow-up to the major CHIPS bill passed a few months ago, @SuzanneMonyak reports.

"It is a national security issue," the leader of one group said. https://t.co/nHzCAnITw3

[Todd Ruger @ToddRuger]

@jacob_fischler Please don't change, please don't break

[Ariel Cohen @ArielCohen37]

Some say Congress has gone to the dogs...and they're not wrong!

Capitol Hill's unqiue pet policy has been a saving grace for many during stressful times. Meet some of the fluffy paw-licy pups who keep the government going:
https://t.co/a68OZQBqzx

[Kimberly Robinson @KimberlyRobinsn]

One thing we can say after today’s order is that Thomas is not likely to recuse from cases dealing with 2020 election despite his wife’s ties to challenge Biden’s victory.

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Sen. Lindsey Graham gets at least temporary reprieve from Justice Clarence Thomas as the Supreme Court considers the South Carolina Republican's request to halt Georgia grand jury testimony.

Response from state prosecutors due at high court on Thursday.

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NEW: Sen. Lindsey Graham goes to the Supreme Court in his bid to stop a subpoena to testify before a Georgia grand jury investigating interference in the 2020 presidential election https://t.co/MVaWwNfPn3

[Todd Ruger @ToddRuger]

Justice Barrett just denied this without comment, meaning the Supreme Court will not halt the Biden student-loan debt forgiveness program per a WI taxpayer group request
https://t.co/Kz0Xo2fgeL

[Todd Ruger @ToddRuger]

NEW: Government tells judge Trump's former White House advisor Steve Bannon should get 6 months in prison and a $200,000 fine for "his sustained, bad-faith contempt of Congress."

[Mark Sherman @shermancourt]

Here is the new #SCOTUS group photo. Taken by AP's J. Scott Applewhite.