Lawfare No Bull Podcast Transcripts
Lawfare · 102 episodes with transcripts
Welcome to Lawfare No Bull. We have been doing no bull podcasts, mostly for congressional hearings for a long time on the Lawfare podcast feed, we decided to do more of them incorporating a wider range of the public sound of the world of National Security So we spun it off as its own podcast.
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D.C. Circuit’s Argument Over Criminal Contempt Inquiry
October 2, 2026
SPEAKER_1 (0:07)
Today on Lawfare No Bull, on September 29th, all 11 active judges on the US. Court of Appeals for the DC. Circuit heard oral argument over Chief District Judge James Boasberg's inquiry into whether the Trump administration ignored a court order halting immigration removals under the Alien Enemies Act. During the…
Brett Shumate (0:43)
The district court in this case has decided to press forward with a criminal contempt investigation, even though three judges on this court have already concluded that the TRO did not clearly and specifically prohibit the government's conduct. But even setting that aside, there is no basis for any further…
Despite all of this, including the Supreme Court's vacater of the TRO, the district court is now investigating the mental state of senior government officials. It has demanded that the government's litigation council testify in a quasi grand jury, and it has even invited the ACLU to participate in the court's…
Patricia Millett (1:43)
So, Mr. Shumate, this case has been before the Amban Court before. Last November, we considered an Amban petition regarding another mandamus petition regarding these same contempt proceedings. And when we resolved that prior petition, a majority of the active judges of this court opined that the district court could…
So it seems to me that for you to prevail in this case, you would have to identify something that happened in those three weeks, that was clear error by the district court, that was new and different from the claims that you previously made and that we implicitly rejected. And if your problem is with the procedure…
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