New: Kristi Noem says Minnesota investigators "don't have any jurisdiction" to probe the ICE shooting of Renee Good. She also declined to say whether the ICE officer who killed her is on suspension. More @courthousenews.bsky.social

📍 MANHATTAN — Kristi Noem is about to hold a press conference discussing ICE operations in NYC. Looks like she’s going to celebrate some recent arrests, based on these posters. We’ll see if she fields off-topic questions. cc @courthousenews.bsky.social

Scenes from outside Maduro’s arraignment. Inside, Maduro got in a spat with a critic in the gallery, who called him an “illegitimate” president. His wife’s face was covered in bandages — her lawyer says she may have fractured ribs.

Coming early next year 🚊🚦💵 Summary judgement arguments in the MTA’s case defending congestion pricing from the Trump administration. (The tax, by all available metrics, has been a success so far.)

New: A Trump-appointed judge is threatening the government with contempt after learning of the "putrid" conditions of an ICE holding room on Long Island. He ordered the DHS to give him photos of the room. DHS refused. More @courthousenews.bsky.social

Luigi Mangione faces uphill battle after marathon evidence hearing @uebey.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/luigi-mangio...

New: Luigi Mangione’s team is concerned after the DA shared a 2-hour clip of the 2024 shooting. “The people are plainly attempting to use this suppression hearing as a vehicle to litigate their case in the court of public opinion,” said Karen Agnifilo.

New: Former Cuomo-Hochul staffer Linda Sun, accused of being a Chinese agent, makes her last stand against FARA charges. “To say that Linda did what the government said she did for salted ducks is as absurd as it sounds,” said her lawyer.

New: Terry Rozier is out on a $3 million bond after pleading not guilty to wire fraud/money laundering conspiracies. The charges have been “professionally devastating” for Rozier, according to his lawyer.

DAY 3 of Luigi Mangione's suppression hearing. It's December 4, the one-year anniversary of Brian Thompson's killing. Mangione just took his seat at the defense table, wearing the gray suit from Monday. Covering live for @courthousenews.bsky.social. Catch up 👇

No Luigi hearing today, as you may know. But I talked about what's transpired so far last night. ⬇️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx6A...

I’m on News Nation in 20 minutes to talk Luigi. Come say hi 📺

New: A bunch of new info surrounding Luigi Mangione’s arrest came to light today, including the 911 call and supposed conversations he had with corrections officers. More @courthousenews.bsky.social 🫵

MANHATTAN — Luigi Mangione’s suppression hearings kick off this morning. The defense will argue against the admission of recovered evidence. Along the way, bodycam footage and cop testimony should give us a deeper look into Mangione’s arrest. Following live @courthousenews.bsky.social

New: Luigi Mangione’s suppression hearings could take several days next week — there’s a lot to get through. Prosecutors are expected to call numerous witnesses. The defense wants at least 2 Altoona cops to testify. More @courthousenews.bsky.social 🫵

“We were always hungry.” “We all wanted to wash ourselves.” Despite a judge’s order, immigrants say conditions at 26 Federal Plaza have not improved. They’re pushing for sanctions against ICE and DHS.

New: Immigrants move to sanction ICE and DHS for failing to improve conditions at 26 Federal Plaza, despite a judge's order to reduce overcrowding and improve sanitation. "In fact certain conditions appeared to worsen" since then, they claim. More TK @courthousenews.bsky.social

Reminder: Federal prosecutors are expected to file a 120-page(!) brief in support of the death penalty for Luigi Mangione tonight.

Soft launch

Indicted ex-Cuomo staffer had leading role in securing Covid-19 supplies: Witness @uebey.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/indicted-ex-...

Inbox: The White House blasts out a press release complaining about ABC News. It's just a list of grievances; literally zero context.

LUIGI: Mangione requests the following clothes for his upcoming state court hearings on Dec. 1, which could take several days.

Designer watches, a 2024 Ferrari, $130,000 in cash (all in 100s). FBI agents recall seizing property from the family of Linda Sun, the former aide to Andrew Cuomo and Kathy Hochul accused of covertly working for China.

A judge invoked MLB pitcher Emmanuel Clase’s high salary and 2020 steroid suspension at his bail hearing today. More @courthousenews.bsky.social 🫵

BROOKLYN — Cleveland Guardians pitcher Emmanuel Clase is silent leaving federal court. He pleaded not guilty to pitch-rigging and released on $600,000 bond. A judge ordered GPS monitoring, finding Clase’s wealth and ties to the Dominican Republic pose risks of flight.

A federal judge just slammed the government for "sending threatening letters on a Saturday night" demanding states "undo" SNAP payments. "It's hard to see how this is not being used as a leverage point," the judge said. "People are hungry right now." cc @courthousenews.bsky.social

“Why, then, would Congress have thought it necessary to specifically add a provision making those noncitizens subject to mandatory detention if they are charged with certain crimes?” wrote Liman, a Trump appointee in the Southern District of New York. “The government has no answer.”

NEW: Judges around the country are citing an unexpected source to free ICE detainees: The Laken Riley Act They're finding ICE's mass detention agenda is SO broad it could actually "nullify" the controversial law. cc @courthousenews.bsky.social

“Lawless behavior” — A federal judge had strong words for the Trump administration, which tried to demand states’ ICE compliance to receive transit funding. cc @courthousenews.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/judge-slams-...

Last month, ICE injured a photographer when they shoved a reporter out of an elevator at 26 Federal Plaza. I wrote about the woman in the elevator, a 20 y/o asylum seeker from Peru, who's been jailed in Louisiana 1000 miles away from her family ever since. @courthousenews.bsky.social 🔗⬇️

New: NY Republicans challenge the state's new even-year election law, this time in federal court 😲 Representing the GOP plaintiffs is the New York-based Brewer firm, which famously defended the NRA in its yearslong corruption case. cc @courthousenews.bsky.social

New: The two Russian mobsters convicted for trying to kill Iranian dissident Masih Alinejad each get 25-year prison sentences. “Justice is beautiful,” says Alinejad.

Uncommon visitor to Brooklyn: a Varied Thrush in Prospect Park #birds #birding 🪶

As expected, Drake is appealing the dismissal of his lawsuit against UMG over Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us." cc @courthousenews.bsky.social

Feds announcing two indictments against Terry Rozier, Chauncey Billups and ~30 others. Apparently, Billups played in rigged mafia-backed poker games that used "sophisticated cheating tech" like X-ray tables and shuffling machines with hidden cameras inside. cc @courthousenews.bsky.social

New: The Third Circuit just hounded the Trump administration for its bid to re-jail Mahmoud Khalil. A Trump-appointed judge was particularly critical, asking whether the government tried to create a “black hole of no jurisdiction.” More @courthousenews.bsky.social

New: A DOJ lawyer claimed Alina Habba's appointment was "consistent with longstanding practice." But a Third Circuit judge asked him to name another time a U.S. attorney was seated this way. "Well, I guess I cannot," the lawyer said.

Update: Luigi Mangione’s defense team claims the White House and DOJ are politicizing the case by painting LM as a “left-wing violent extremist.” They cite reports suggesting lobbying efforts from UnitedHealthcare directly. (This is in response to the pretrial statement stuff.)

Breaking: A federal court just lifted travel restrictions on Mahmoud Khalil. He can now move freely throughout the United States as he awaits removal proceedings, but does need to notify ICE 48 hours prior to his travel. cc @courthousenews.bsky.social

LUIGI: Mangione’s criminal case in Pennsylvania is now effectively on pause. With the Feds not allowing him to be brought in-person, and Mangione declining to appear virtually, the judge says it is “impossible” to conduct substantive hearings right now. cc @courthousenews.bsky.social

LUIGI: Mangione’s federal motion to dismiss is in. The defense argues that the stalking charges aren’t “crimes of violence” that back up for the murder and gun charges. They also move to suppress the backpack evidence — similar to their arguments in the state case.

New: The DOJ is kneecapping its case against Luigi Mangione with its social media habits, former prosecutors tell me. "From my perspective as a defense lawyer, I find this level of obdurate incompetence to be delightful," says famed NYC lawyer Rob Kuby.

NEW: Drake loses his defamation case against Kendrick Lamar over the “Not Like Us” lyrics. More coming @courthousenews.bsky.social

LUIGI: Prosecutors respond to Mangione’s federal judge, who scrutinized public statements from DOJ officials as being potentially prejudicial.

Sean "Diddy" Combs' lawyer Brian Steel just said Combs was nearly shanked in prison. "The guards stopped a person who was armed with a shank who was on top of Sean and about to cut him."

LUIGI: The DOJ wants more time to respond to their potential violations to pretrial publicity rules in Mangione's federal case. The judge wanted a reply by today. Prosecutors ask for Wednesday.

Sean "Diddy" Combs will likely get between 5 and 7 years in prison: The judge just revealed that his offense level and criminal history "yields an advisory guidelines range of 70-87 months in incarceration."

Diddy can wear non-prison clothes to his sentencing Friday:

NEW: In a scathing 161-page order, a judge finds Kristi Noem + Marco Rubio knowingly conspired to chill free speech by trying to deport pro-Palestine students. He likens ICE's masking to the KKK: "ICE goes masked for a single reason -- to terrorize Americans into quiescence."

“If there is one thing I have learned from this experience, it is that victims and survivors will never be safe.” Cassie Ventura writes to a federal judge in support of the feds’ 11-year sentence recommendation for Diddy. cc @courthousenews.bsky.social