All posts tagged "Katie Phang"

A legal expert predicts the elite law firms that cut deals with President Donald Trump are heading toward a humiliating public reckoning.

Writing in a piece for her Substack newsletter on Saturday, lawyer and journalist Katie Phang said leaders of the nine Big Law firms that caved to Trump would "face plant on national television" if Democrats retake the House in November and haul them before cameras under oath.

In spring 2025, Trump signed a series of executive orders targeting major law firms over their clients and attorneys. Four firms, Perkins Coie, Jenner & Block, WilmerHale and Susman Godfrey, challenged the orders in court and won. Nine others, starting with Paul Weiss, instead struck agreements promising about $940 million in pro bono work for causes the Trump administration favors....

A former federal prosecutor believes judges fed up with President Donald Trump's Justice Department are using a tactic every parent knows.

Joyce Vance, a former U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, said on Wednesday's episode of "Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance" with legal expert Katie Phang that courts start treating the government with "progressive discipline" once it breaks a judge's trust.

"Once a judge, once the government loses faith with the judge, the courts start to subject the government to progressive discipline," Vance said. "It's a little bit like having children and scrutiny and forcing people to fly in and go into court and testify. And courts can put a lot of pressure on the government that makes things very uncomfortable."...

Attorney General Todd Blanche's Justice Department keeps stiffing a federal judge over the Epstein files, and a legal expert sees where the road ends.

Lawyer and analyst Michael Popok said in Saturday's episode of his podcast "The Intersection" that the DOJ is "moving ever so inexorably towards contempt" in Katie Phang's lawsuit against Blanche after the department blew yet another court deadline.

"I'm waiting any moment now for...a very unhappy Judge Sullivan to throw the book again at the Department of Justice," Popok said, referring to U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan, who's presiding over the case....

Attorney General Todd Blanche is facing fresh scrutiny over his handling of FBI records involving a woman who accused President Donald Trump of sexual abuse as a federal judge presses for answers in a lawsuit over the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Legal analyst Katie Phang, who brought the lawsuit, revealed Friday that U.S. District Judge Emmett Sullivan had issued another order addressing Blanche’s compliance with demands to produce records.

“Brand new update in my lawsuit against Attorney General Todd Blanche for the production of the unredacted Epstein files, hot off the presses,” Phang said. “An order from Judge Sullivan relating to these last few episodes I’ve been doing here at Katy Phang News about the failure of Todd Blanche to actually comply."...

A legal expert suing the Justice Department argues Todd Blanche's latest court submission points to evidence that quietly vanished.

Lawyer and journalist Katie Phang, who is suing Attorney General Todd Blanche for unredacted Epstein records, said in a Thursday episode for the "Katie Phang News" channel that the FBI's handwritten notes from the last of four 2019 interviews with a woman who alleges Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump sexually assaulted her as a teenager have never surfaced and that Blanche's recent notice of compliance does not explain why. Trump has denied wrongdoing related to Epstein.

U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan ordered Blanche on September 16 to submit for private review the notes underlying FBI reports from interviews conducted July 24, August 7, August 20 and October 16, 2019....

Attorney General Todd Blanche's new word for handwritten notes on an accuser of President Donald Trump in the Epstein files is raising red flags.

Lawyer and journalist Katie Phang, a former prosecutor suing Blanche for the unredacted Epstein files, picked apart the Justice Department's latest court filing in a video posted Tuesday on her YouTube channel, "Katie Phang News."

At issue are handwritten notes from four FBI interviews with a woman who alleged Trump sexually assaulted and physically abused her when she was between 13 and 15 years old. Trump has long denied wrongdoing tied to Epstein....