"Fewer than half of federal judges and only one in four elite lawyers believed that the government still merits the presumption of regularity. Only a narrow majority of legal conservatives agree the presumption is still warranted." brightlinewatch.org/erosion-of-t...
Brendan Nyhan
“News of the disaster before the Illinois grand jury could well make the judges … more inclined to grant access to grand-jury material.”
The ‘Presumption of Regularity’ Is Evaporating, by @qjurecic.bsky.social: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Judges have long defaulted to a posture of trust toward the federal government, but under Trump that is changing, and a new set of legal possibilities is emerging.
