IN RE TRUMP

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Hashim M. Mooppan , UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Washington, D.C., for Petitioner. Loren L. AliKhan , OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Washington, D.C., for Respondents. ON BRIEF: Joseph H. Hunt , Assistant Attorney General, Mark R. Freeman , Michael S. Raab , Megan Barbero , Civil Division, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Washington, D.C., for Petitioner. Brian E. Frosh , Attorney General, Steven M. Sullivan , Solicitor General, Leah J. Tulin , Assistant Attorney General, OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF MARYLAND, Baltimore, Maryland; Karl A. Racine , Attorney General, Stephanie E. Litos , Assistant Deputy Attorney General, Civil Litigation Division, OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Washington, D.C.; Norman Eisen , Laura C. Beckerman , Stuart C. McPhail , CITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBILITY AND ETHICS IN WASHINGTON, Washington, D.C.; Deepak Gupta , Joshua Matz , Daniel Townsend , GUPTA WESSLER PLLC, Washington, D.C.; Joseph M. Sellers , Christine E. Webber , COHEN MILSTEIN SELLERS & TOLL PLLC, Washington, D.C., for Respondents. Craig Thomas Merritt , CHRISTIAN & BARTON, L.L.P., Richmond, Virginia, for Amici Professor Clark C. Cunningham and Professor Jesse Egbert. Carrie Severino, JUDICIAL EDUCATION PROJECT, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Judicial Education Project. Robert W. Ray , THOMPSON & KNIGHT LLP, New York, New York; Josh Blackman , Houston, Texas, for Amicus Scholar Seth Barrett Tillman. Jan I. Berlage , GOHN HANKEY & BERLAGE LLP, Baltimore, Maryland, for Amici Scholar Seth Barrett Tillman and The Judicial Education Project. Harold Hongju Koh , Rule Of Law Clinic, YALE LAW SCHOOL, New Haven, Connecticut; Phillip Spector , MESSING & SPECTOR LLP, Baltimore, Maryland, for Amici National Security Officials. Mark R. Herring , Attorney General, Toby J. Heytens , Solicitor General, Matthew R. McGuire , Principal Deputy Solicitor General, Michelle S. Kallen , Deputy Solicitor General, Brittany M. Jones , OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF VIRGINIA, Richmond, Virginia, for Amicus Commonwealth of Virginia. Colin E. Wrabley , Devin M. Misour , Brian T. Phelps , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, M. Patrick Yingling , REED SMITH LLP, Chicago, Illinois, for Amici The Niskanen Center, Republican Women for Progress, Cheri Jacobus , Tom Coleman , Emil H. Frankel , and Joel Searby . Regina Kline , Jean M. Zachariasiewicz , Anthony J. May , BROWN, GOLDSTEIN & LEVY, LLP, Baltimore, Maryland, for Amici Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, and Federal Courts Scholars. H. Laddie Montague, Jr. , Eric J. Cramer , Candace J. Enders , BERGER & MONTAGUE, P.C., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Erica C. Lai , Melissa H. Maxman , COHEN & GRESSER LLP, Washington, D.C., for Amici Certain Legal Historians.

Petition for writ of mandamus granted; reversed and remanded with instructions by published opinion. Judge Niemeyer wrote the opinion, in which Judge Quattlebaum and Senior Judge Shedd joined.