Frame by Frame Analysis: How Minneapolis Woman Exercised Her Rights in ICE Encounter @weissmann.substack.com analyzes with me the viral video. Topics: Everyone's legal rights and scope of federal agents' authority during this "immigration check" Our full analysis here: youtu.be/uSO4-05Gvas?...

Really helpful lessons from an ICE encounter with someone who knows their rights. The longer version is worth watching, too!

Watch and share!! An excellent explainer of (among other things) 4th and 5th Amendment rights of *anyone* in the United States—documented or not. HUGE thanks to @rgoodlaw.bsky.social and @weissmann.substack.com (More explainers, please, and thank you!)

Two of the most inexplicable things about the largely incoherent OLC opinion: First, on p.19 it says (correctly) that the operation was a "use of force" under international law, and then adds: "There is either a treaty that prohibits that use of force or there isn't." [1] @justsecurity.org

Trump on the Renee Good murder: Asked if he believed deadly force was necessary in this case, Trump said: “It was highly disrespectful of law enforcement. The woman and her friend were highly disrespectful of law enforcement.” But pardoning all the people who assaulted the capital police is ok?

Consolidation of Power- a new Main Justice episode on Minnesota, Venezuela, and the Federal Reserve. substack.com/@ghost22/not...

Had to break to feed the children. Returning, and this is an interesting paragraph. Note the OLC “not a war” analysis is supposed to take into account risk of escalation into war. Here OLC says that the U.S. might sustain significant casualties, yet that doesn’t warrant Congressional involvement—

Q: The premier of Greenland said today, 'We prefer to stay with Denmark.' TRUMP: Who said that? Q: The premier of Greenland TRUMP: Well, that's their problem. I disagree with him. I don't know who he is. Don't know anything about him. But that's gonna be a big problem for him.

1/DOJ OLC's memo on the #Venezuela attack makes clear that that in the Executive's view, there's nothing left of Congress' Art. I power to decide whether the nation goes to war. Congress needs to push back hard on this. More to come, but a few initial observations: www.justice.gov/olc/media/14...

DOJ just published a redacted version of the OLC memo justifying the Administration’s campaign/attacks in Venezuela and capture of Maduro:

NEW An initially-secret report for Customs and Border Patrol in 2013 found: In many vehicle shooting cases, the “driver was attempting to flee from the agents who intentionally put themselves into the exit path of the vehicle, thereby … creating justification for the use of deadly force.” 🧵

Law enforcement officers CANNOT use deadly force against a fleeing person fleeing unless they have a reasonable belief that the individual poses a danger to others (e.g., they know the person is armed). If in vehicle, the person must be threatening to use deadly force with the vehicle or other means

Good Q fora reporter to put to Miller: what is your take on the march into the Sudetenland?

White House white-washing of J6 continues. This latest fails to explain that if Trump was against violence, and it was allegedly fomented by Dems and the police (I guess the police wanted to be assaulted?), how does he explain not reacting immediately to quell the violence? www.whitehouse.gov/j6/

You can listen live to the hearing held only by Democrats to commemorate the 5th anniversary of January 6th. It speaks volumes about the state of our democracy that no Republican Members of Congress are participating here, in what should be a bipartisan event. www.youtube.com/live/EUEmzBY...

Essential reading from @tessbridgeman.bsky.social

Next up, will Miller talk about taking the Sudetenland? Stephen Miller Asserts U.S. Has Right to Take Greenland www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/u...

Eyes wide open, folks. They're revealing the supervillain plot.

WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize. “If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

JD Vance's stated justification, drugs and: "Stolen oil"

In the Maduro capture operation, the Trump administration relies on Bill Barr’s (discredited) 1989 memo claiming a President can disregard the UN Charter (CNN report). That is a loaded gun. The legal analysis is utterly flawed. My assessment just published: www.justsecurity.org/127962/madur...

Sen Mike Lee with the first account I’ve seen of the Admin’s legal theory for the strikes. On the domestic law side — something like: Art II law enforcement power to capture Maduro (by invading his own country) combined with Art II power to protect those personnel executing the warrant.

House Judiciary Committee releases on New Years Eve (in an obvious attempt to bury this info) the Jack Smith deposition transcript. I recommend doing a word search for "proof beyond a reasonable doubt." And explanation of disenfranchisement of urban areas. judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Bari Weiss, really? Really.

After Epstein's 2019 death "prosecutors produced a seven-page memo on co-conspirators they might consider charging and followed that with an 86-page update in December ... a 13-page memo of corporate prosecutions they might pursue and a 26-page memo regarding another target prosecutors considered."

The 60 Minutes piece on the Trump Administration’s torture prison that Bari Weiss doesn’t want you to see has leaked.

This is stunning. Blanche is claiming, with a straight face, that the only federal prison where a convicted sex offender can adequately be protected from other inmates just so happens to be a minimum security prison that gives her puppy playdates. Truly preposterous.

Kafkaesque open.substack.com/pub/weissman...

EPSTEIN: If Todd Blanche's is correct when he said on Meet the Press that Trump has wanted the Epstein files released from even before the election, then why weren't they, and why is Blanche simultaneously saying DOJ could not meet the Congressional deadline because they now need more time?

This is key; the biggest thing that didn't happen yesterday is neither Trump nor DOJ stated that everything with Trump's name on it or with his image has been disclosed. If you have nothing to hide, wouldn't that be what you would do? Instead, looks like DOJ is continuing the cover-up, as Ryan notes

contrarian.substack.com/p/venezuela-... perhaps the most revealing account yet about the boat strike- which senator is lying, what Bradley is selling and more

DAG Blanche says DOJ takes white-collar investigations seriously, but its website has just a single new FCPA (foreign bribery) case all this year. Now, he says if DOJ improperly targets a company, he will hold against them if it spoke the truth about DOJ's deficient performance. That's justice?

41 minutes of watching two shipwrecked men trying to flip a boat and signaling for surrender/help before firing on them again reminds me of the 9.5 minutes Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd’s neck, in that it’s an agonizingly long time to be killing helpless people who clearly posed no threat.

All true re the contempt proceedings for Judge Boasberg. Noem also doesn’t say whether she was ordered to do continue the transfers by anyone at the White House.

NEW info on shipwreck attack. It gets worse. The 2 survivors climbed atop wreckage and waved to overhead. "Some of the people viewing the video thought ... could have been an attempt to surrender" Others "said the most logical explanation was ... signaling for a rescue." 1/

The former New York City mayor, a longtime backer of historically Black colleges and universities, has a new initiative to support young Black students.

MS NOW Exclusive: FBI Director Kash Patel has — on more than one occasion — ordered that the security detail protecting his girlfriend escort one of her allegedly inebriated friends home after a night of partying in Nashville, according to three people with knowledge of the incidents.

By law, the Department of Justice CAN go to another grand jury and try again. But even if they succeed (a big IF in this case), the DOJ will have handed Letitia James even more evidence for her vindictive prosecution motion to dismiss the charges. And that motion was already quite strong.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court has permitted Texas to keep its newly redistricted, GOP-favorable congressional map in 2026. Kagan, Sotomayor and Jackson dissent. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

NBC News: DOJ fails to get a new indictment of Letitia James. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

BREAKING: MSNOW reports Grand Jury refuses to charge Letita James. DOJ can, by law, keep trying before a different grand jury, but this will be further proof of vindictive prosecution.

i strangely find myself admiring Rand Paul on this

Exclusive: Congressional watchdog will investigate Trump official’s conduct reut.rs/4iMN5yA

The J6 Bombing case: let’s assume the DOJ got the right person and will prove that beyond a reasonable doubt at trial, but until then he is presumed innocent. But let’s assume all that. Are we supposed to just forget that: (cont. 1/3)

How soon will it be before he gets a pardon, given Trump pardoned myriad other violent J6 defendants? “Suspect Arrested in Jan. 6 Pipe Bomb Investigation, Officials Say” www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...

"Dishonorable and Inhumane." These are the precise words the DOD Law of War Manual uses to describe attacking those who are shipwrecked. This week's episode of the Main Justice pod covers the latest on the killing of two stranded survivors of the first boat attack. open.substack.com/pub/weissman...

Woah. Newsmax’s legal analyst just said Pete Hegseth and everyone involved in the illegal boat strike should be “prosecuted for a war crime.” They’ve even lost Newsmax on this one.

President Trump has officially pardoned former Honduran President who US officials said was at the center of one of the largest and most violent drug-trafficking conspiracies in the world. n.pr/4rzhG6q