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Reed Christensen v. Department of Justice, et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, No. 25-2868 · judgment October 22, 2025


Certiorari denied · February 23, 2026
Pre-decision estimate: 0% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Questions presented

  1. Did the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals err in agreeing that a federal district court does not have jurisdiction to judge unconstitutional actions of officers of the federal government with respect to their Jan6 misconduct.

  2. Whether this Court will exercise its prerogative to make an unusual and unprecedented declaratory judgment on the plaintiffs original complaint as to whether, as a Jan6 defendant, he was subjected to a malevolent and opprobrious political show trial coordinated by the Executive and Judicial branches, which violated his First, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendment Rights.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Reed K. Christensen

For respondent
D. John Sauer
Solicitor General

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Feb 23 2026
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Feb 04 2026
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/20/2026.
  3. Jan 20 2026
    Waiver of right of respondent Dept. of Justice, et al. to respond filed.
  4. Jan 13 2026
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due February 17, 2026)