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A unanimous Nevada Supreme Court reinstated criminal charges against six people allegedly involved President Trump’s 2020 fake electors scheme. The case had previously been dismissed on grounds that it had been filed in the wrong county. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

In a joint hearing in the Jim Comey and Letitia James cases, Judge Cameron McGowan Currie gave no indication that she thinks Lindsey Halligan was lawfully appointed as interim U.S. attorney. But it wasn’t at all clear what Currie will do about it now. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/pam-b...

The Jeffrey Epstein emails are astonishing not so much for the chumminess he enjoyed with elites even after he’d served time for soliciting prostitution with a minor but for their flagrantness, their casual disregard, and their indifference to consequence. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

Very proud to contribute to @talkingpointsmemo.com’s 25th anniversary retrospective. My entry is about my slow realization that COVID-era doomscrolling hastened the triumph of algorithm-optimized nonsense and propaganda over professional fact gathering and true story telling.

Finally got to write about this obsession. Elon pushed people to stop linking the articles they were talking about. He's started to roll that back, but we were left with a culture of people yelling at screenshots of headlines on monetized accounts

The Trump DOJ’s bogus prosecution of New York Attorney General Letitia James just got a lot more difficult to pull off, with what appears to be a major administration coverup of the origins of the case against her. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

Tucked into a spending bill that is part of the deal to end the government shutdown is a provision that would allow GOP senators to personally sue the federal government for as much as $500K over Special Counsel Jack Smith’s lawful search of their phone records. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

Let the record show that President Donald Trump issued mass preemptive pardons to those involved in his effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election five years to the day since the Four Seasons Landscaping debacle in Philadelphia. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

At #FedSoc, just-departed Bondi chief of staff and acting DOJ No. 3 Chad Mizelle urges Congress to step up campaign to impeach federal judges who've blocked Trump policies. Mizelle also rejects Roberts' stance that rulings can't be grounds for impeachment. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

From losing the DC sandwich guy case to violating a court order on SNAP to winning on its anti-trans passport initiative, just another day in Trump II paradise. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts’ initial defense of Tucker Carlson’s interview with the raging antisemite Nick Fuentes has now ignited an open revolt at the venerable right wing think tank, WaPo reports. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

The MAGA feedback loop: FBI provides Hill GOP with internal documents from the Trump probes->Hill GOP culls the docs for agent names->agents get put on blast by the MAGA propaganda machine->White House orders the agents to be fired->Kash Patel races to comply. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

Judge's response is: Read the discovery order. The discovery order *agreed to by the parties* already contemplates this issue and provides a mechanism for it, in the first footnote: Judge's response www.courtlistener.com/docket/71601... Discovery order: www.courtlistener.com/docket/71601...

Where America stands, one year after the election. A fascistic movement controls the government; they are building an authoritarian state; but they have not been able yet to extend authoritarian rule across society. A democracy no more, but not a consolidated autocratic regime yet. New piece:

A few months before I left TPM, Dick Cheney got a heart transplant and we thought he might die, so @davidkurtz.bsky.social asked me to prewrite his obituary. I did as instructed, David never even gave it so much as a copy edit, and now, 13 years later, it’s live, purple prose, TKs and all.

It’s an interesting time-capsule artifact from when our memories of Bush II were fresher, the wounds no longer raw but also not fully healed. Not contemporaneous, but also not further clouded by the passage of another 13 years and the upheavals of the Trump era. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/dick-...

Former Teen Vogue politics editor Allegra Kirkland pays homage to ... what ... OUUUUCH: talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/what-we...

In a remarkable filing in both the Jim Comey and Letitia James cases, AG Pam Bondi declared more than a month after Comey’s indictment that she was retroactively ratifying everything that interim USA Lindsey Halligan had done to secure the 2 indictments. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

Clean up on aisle 2: On Friday, more than a month after the indictment of Jim Comey, AG Pam Bondi signed a document purporting to ratify everything Lindsey Halligan has done as interim US attorney in the Comey and Letitia James cases. Nothing to see here folks. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71459...

A federal judge permanently barred Trump from requiring proof of citizenship on federal voter registration forms. In a March EO, Trump had tried to strong arm the Elections Assistance Commission into imposing the proof of citizenship requirement. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

This is really appalling: Rep Adam Smith tells me that in a briefing, Pentagon officials said they reserve the right to kill people who are "affiliated" with their list of "narco-terror groups." But under questioning, they wouldn't define what "affiliated" means! newrepublic.com/article/2025...

During the sentencing of a pardoned Jan. 6 defendant in an unrelated case, U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols of D.C. praised the two prosecutors who were suspended by DOJ this week after they referred to those who attacked the Capitol as a “mob of rioters.” talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

Put another way: Trump's DOJ is sending their No. 3 lawyer (a go-to attorney for Trump's allies) to shield their No. 2 lawyer (Trump's criminal defense attorney) from a subpoena, all in an effort to argue that Kilmar Abrego Garcia isn't being vindictively prosecuted by the Trump administration.

"U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols said at a sentencing hearing that the prosecutors, Carlos Valdivia and Samuel White, were among the best attorneys who have appeared before him."

Stan Woodward joins the party and for first time gov't raises the prospect of a significant delay in the Abrego Garcia criminal case so it can fight the subpoena of DAG Todd Blanche and other senior DOJ officials at the appeals court, if the trial judge won't quash it.

Republicans on the Hill and right-wing media in tandem with the Trump administration are creating a MAGA feedback loop by releasing DOJ and FBI records from the “Arctic Fox” investigation ... talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

In the midst of raging discovery dispute, the US attorney in Abrego Garcia criminal case revealed to the judge today that he himself just obtained *yesterday* from HSI agent John VanWie in Baltimore "a significant number of documents, almost all of which the [prosecutor] did not previously have."

In what is now the third such ruling, a federal judge disqualified Bill Essayli as acting U.S. attorney in Los Angeles. The ruling has major implications for the corrupt political prosecutions of former FBI Director James Comey and New York AG Letitia James. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

A Homeland Security Investigations officer accompanying local police fired his gun into a car during a traffic stop in DC earlier this month, but the police report of the incident contained no mention of shots being fired. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

It’s become apparent now that the Trump administration is not driven by a desire for any particular outcome in the case of Abrego Garcia, but for whatever outcome among the available choices in front of it inflicts maximum pain and suffering on the him. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

Motion to quash Abrego Garcia's subpoena in vindictive prosecution claim reveals who was subpoenaed in addition to DAG Todd Blanche: Associate DAG Aakash Singh Counselor to the DAG James McHenry Acting USA Robert McGuire HSI agents John VanWie and Rana Saoud www.courtlistener.com/docket/70476...

100% this. A bad outcome doesn’t mean the decision was wrong or that a different decision would have yielded a better outcome. This too common framing also shifts the burden from bad faith actors for their villainy to good faith actors for their...pick your poison...ineptitude, weakness, naivete.

When a Gilded Age name like Mellon is dominating the news, it’s hard to resist framing the current moment as runaway billionaire-ism. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

Some 🔥🔥🔥 from Abrego Garcia, calling out DOJ stonewalling on discovery into his vindictive prosecution claim and zeroing in on DAG Todd Blanche as a key witness. Looming over all this: If govt succeeds in removing Abrego Garcia to Liberia, the criminal case becomes moot, which might be the point.

Now it's Liberia, another country to which Abrego Garcia has no connex. Looking past the cheesy sales job from Trump DOJ on how awesome Liberia is, its notice and this much lead time is only happening because of a prior court order from the judge requiring it: www.courtlistener.com/docket/69777...

The Trump White House has rolled out a new version of a page on its official website about the history of the building to tout the president’s controversial ballroom project – while gratuitously trolling the last three Democratic presidents. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

Attorneys representing journalists and protestors rushed to court w/ allegations that CBP commander Greg Bovino launched a gas canister at a crowd of protestors in Chicago this morning in potential violation of a court order. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/greg-bo...

Letitia James cites Lindsey Halligan's Signal chat with @annabower.bsky.social in asking the court to clamp down on "any further disclosures by government attorneys and agents of investigative and case materials, and statements to the media and public ..." www.courtlistener.com/docket/71601...

In a new filing, Letitia James tells the court that her planned motion to dismiss her indictment over Lindsey Halligan's unlawful appointment as U.S. attorney "should likely be consolidated" with James Comey's similar pending motion. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71601...

The FBI called its NBA gambling investigation “Operation Nothing but Bet” www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...

No past administration has launched military operations at the same time it is conducting a vigorous, sustained, and broad based attack on the rule of law, the constitutional order, and the professional military like President Trump is. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) warns that the $230M payout won't be public: “Our reading is that, even though this is a private settlement, it doesn’t have to be disclosed anywhere until there is an accounting of where all the money has gone at the end of the year." newrepublic.com/article/2021...

This gets a little convoluted, but it’s potentially quite important so stick with me for a moment here. Bloomberg News has sleuthed out a federal grand jury in Florida that could be part of Trump’s wide-ranging investigate the investigators retribution scheme. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

Acting U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan initiated a Signal chat two weekends ago with Lawfare reporter Anna Bower in which the newly appointed federal prosecutor tiptoed to the verge of revealing grand jury information in the Letitia James case. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

Trump Is Using ‘Classical Architecture’ as ‘A Dog Whistle for White Nationalists’ talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-c...

As expected, 9th Circuit panel rules for Trump, allowing deployment of the Oregon National Guard to Portland. Graber, in dissent, asks colleagues on 9th to vacate the order. "I ask those who are watching this case unfold to retain faith in our judicial system for just a little longer," she writes

U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan – who reportedly has U.S. marshals accompanying her for security protection within her own office – has fired two more career prosecutors in the Eastern District of Virginia. Plus other new developments at Trump DOJ: talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

So much going on in this MSNBC report on the political investigations/prosecutions still percolating at the Trump DOJ that do NOT involve Jim Comey, Letitia James, or John Bolton: www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...