Here's an interesting detail fr NYT last week. Dan Richman was subpoenaed. Which would suggest grand jury appearance. But if prosecutors realized he would blow their case, would they still put him before the GJ that Lindsey the Insurance Lawyer will ask to indict? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...

"But assuming you decide to move forward with the Comey case—you face an immediate problem: What should you charge him with?" @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org and @annabower.bsky.social delve into the Trump administration's push to prosecute James Comey and the weaknesses of a case against him.

After an appeals court let the Trump administration enforce "defund," PPFA told HuffPost: “All Planned Parenthood affiliates that currently provide abortion care will continue to do so.” www.huffpost.com/entry/court-... That is no longer the case.

Sources tell us that PPPWI isn't scheduling abortions after September 30 in an apparent bid to remain in the Medicaid program. Planned Parenthood Federation of America claimed earlier this month that it wasn't considering allowing affiliates to drop abortions. Now one apparently will:

EXCLUSIVE: Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin will halt abortions in October in response to the GOP budget "defunding" provision It's the first known PP affiliate to drop abortion services in the wake of the law:

Tick, tock. Lindsey Halligan, the newly-installed prosecutor in EDVA, has less than a week to secure an indictment against James Comey before a key statute of limitations runs out. Ben Wittes and I examine her charging options. Spoiler alert: they all suck. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

Federal prosecutor Jeffrey Nestler, who helped put Stewart Rhodes and other Oath Keepers in prison for Jan. 6, is leaving the department. Dropped off a handful of cases tonight, including this one against the man charged with murdering to Israeli embassy employees.

I am not a Jim Comey fan, but I wish him well in his defense of the charges that Trump’s DOJ is threatening to bring against him and am confident that he will prevail since attorneys in that office already have determined that the DOJ’s evidence does not support bringing the indictment.

Motherfuckers. And I don't even like Comey.

NEW: Did you know a judge has ordered Rudy to pay his former lawyer $1.6M? Plus, a J6er is suing the DoJ alleging he was dosed with estrogen in prison. @libradunn1.bsky.social and I cover it on today’s Cleanup on Aisle 45. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

NEW: Trump's US Attorney in EDVA is going to try to get a grand jury to indict Comey despite investigators and prosecutors saying there's insufficient evidence. Not even probable cause. abcnews.go.com/Politics/new...

Expect more resignations and firings from the EDVA when the real prosecutors make Lindsay present the case to the grand jury or refuse to sign an indictment.

ABC has the Comey story now, with the key detail: Lindsey the Insurance Lawyer will TRY to get a GJ to indict, even though prosecutors say there's not even probable cause. abcnews.go.com/Politics/new...

Comey is going to have a massive book deal and civil lawsuit handed to him on a silver platter.

Judge is William E. Smith, a Bush 43 appointee.

Fed. judge holds that it violated the APA and the Spending Clause for Trump administration to condition federal grants to states on whether they were cooperating in immigration enforcement. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"My understanding is that he is the only person in ICE detention who was in detention because of his journalism." — @ACLU.org attorney on her Emmy-winning client Mario Guevara Video on @MeidasTouch.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS1p... Petition action.aclu.org/send-message...

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And once again, no mention of the fact that only detainees were injured and nothing happened to any members of ICE.

The Trump administration predictably signaling further efforts to tar domestic political opponents as "terrorists"—likely with the aims of delegitimizing the opponents while legitimizing state repression against them.

The circumstances of the two late night hosts are different, but the message is the same: Censorship has no place on our televisions.

Odds the Comey indictment gets no-billed?

The judge “will consider the other statements” cited in Mangione’s defense filing when she decides whether to take the death penalty off the table. More violations could spark "sanctions," she said. Full story, @allrisenews.com www.allrisenews.com/p/luigi-mang...

This DOJ official's post, reposted by another DOJ official, is one of the alleged violations. The judge ordered the government to provide a sworn declaration about how the alleged violations occurred and "what steps are being taken" so that no future violations occur.

BREAKING A federal judge found it "appears ... that multiple employees of the Department of Justice may have violated" local rules in SDNY guaranteeing Luigi Mangione's right to a fair trial. Full order here storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Trump and his lackeys always say that they were joking after they are caught publicly saying illegal batshit crazy stuff. Nobody’s buying that “malarkey.” Shout out to Joe Biden.

Vance claims that Brendan Carr’s repeated threats on social media and interviews, which he also put in writing in Project 2025, was just “a joke” and had nothing to do with Kimmel being taken off the air.

now THAT's a fucking joke right there 😭

BREAKING: The DOJ is expected to indict former FBI Director James Comey, who Trump has vowed to seek revenge on for his handling of investigations into the 2016 election. If the indictment proceeds, it would mark an escalation in Trump’s weaponization of the DOJ against his political adversaries.

First in @semafor.com : A group of Disney shareholders represented by attorney Roberta Kaplan are demanding that the company turn over documents related to its decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel www.semafor.com/article/09/2...

MAiD is a complicated issue at the best of times, now? These are far from the best of times. At DFP we found that a majority of voters do not support medical aid in dying for people who do not have a terminal (life-ending) condition. Here's my latest @dataforprogress.org bsky.app/profile/data...

Have you noticed that the Trump Regime is pursuing eugenicist policies, designed to kill off disabled Americans? There's fear in the disability community that as the Regime cuts Medicaid + housing + food + disability assistance, non-terminal disabled people will be pressured to suicide. 🧵

I guess Yale Law School taught the whole "comedy exception to the First Amendment" class the rest of us missed . . . .

Again, treating this stuff as normal, instead of wildly violating all the norms, laws, & ratified international treaties is a choice. Other choices remain readily available. We don't have to treat Trump & these guys as Very Special Boys.

If Janet Yellen went on TV & said "We're not going to honor our NATO obligations anymore," the first thing everyone in the media would say is, "You're the Treasury Secretary. What are you talking about?" The second is, "This is a massive national security scandal in the Biden administration." Now? 🦗

Yet another decision holding this. With the exception of a single bad 2nd Circuit decision surrounding Byrne JAG grants in Trump 1.0, the Trump admin has a near-perfect losing streak on imposing immigration enforcement conditions on federal grants.

You can be mad at Jim Comey for what he did to HRC in 2016 and also decry any potential indictment as bullshit. You can do both.

Congrats again to the elites who told us this guy was a credible Treasury Secretary because he went to the right schools & cocktail parties (bsky.app/profile/mcop...) We have treaty obligations with our allies. Resign. Or start acting like an adult who swore an oath to country & Constitution.

I am guessing that this is how they are going to try to charge Comey in EDVA.

The prosecutors involved should face serious professional sanctions.

Reminder: Trump ALREADY did hire a prosecutor specifically to bring frivolous prosecutions, with John Durham. We LITERALLY now know that Durham learned 2 years in that he was chasing Russian disinformation.

Kristi Noem’s DHS swiped a Trump podcaster’s image for deportation propaganda, then yanked it after his backlash. Even MAGA influencers see the regime’s clownish overreach when their own wallets and reputations are at stake.

Trump’s DOJ tried smearing the FBI agent who exposed Alex Jones’ Sandy Hook lies, then scrambled to retract when caught. A regime so eager to punish truth-tellers that it weaponizes justice against grieving families’ defenders.

Eric Trump is sitting in on classified meetings? What security clearance does he have?

“Republicans have decided to shut the government down.” Keep it shut down for as long as needed to put a this lawless president on a leash.

LOVE THIS...

Trying to secure an indictment six days before the statute of limitations runs out against Comey, just after political turmoil in the US Attorney’s Office for the EDVA, and with a grand jury that maybe can’t be relied upon as much as before maybe(?) is quite the push.

Since the adolescents in the White House are making what they imagine to be jokes about Biden's autopen, reupping how Todd Blanche revealed TRUMP'S pardons aren't backed by paperwork. www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/17/t...