In a normal government, this results in the resignation of multiple cabinet officials (Transportation, Defense, and Homeland Security), and the closure or (at least!) radical reorg of the cartoonishly incompetent agency at the center of it: CBP. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...

Happy to report that these heroes have been officially cleared of being mentioned in the Epstein Files.

They not only failed to get an indictment, they failed to get a single grand juror’s vote. It’s probable that this has never happened before. Likely because the DOJ has never sent hack political appointees to attempt to get indictments on sitting Congress members over protected speech before.

Front page of this month’s edition of The Onion.

Apropos of nothing much, a reminder that Nixon’s Attorney General served 19 months in prison.

To understand how horrible Pamela Jo Bondi is, remember she only has her current job as US Attorney General because she took a bribe from Donald Trump when she was Florida's Attorney General to drop an investigation into the obvious consumer fraud perpetrated by his scam called "Trump University."

Thanks to the appalling incompetence of Trump's Department of Justice, we can now retire the expression "A grand jury will indict a ham sandwich." They will not.

Hello 911? I'd like to report a murder

Wake me up when someone gives a credible explanation for the TEN DAY air restriction in El Paso and Southern New Mexico

Think of all the great historical precedents! Napoleon ... But it's also a terrible idea, because exiles return. (Napoleon ...)

Heh. Losers. www.slotkin.senate.gov/2026/02/11/s...

It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."

I'd watch this

It’s a feature, not a flaw.

This is what we are up against.

Now we know where Trump got the narrative "paid protestors" from. His accusations always let us know what to look for...

Even after Hoover and Nixon, judges trusted the DOJ ... "The presumption of regularity that has been previously extended to [the DOJ] that it could be taken at its word — with little doubt about its intentions and stated purposes — no longer holds" www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Even if there were rampant election fraud in Georgia it only had 16 electoral votes Trump lost in 2020 by 74 The raid on Fulton County is just MAGA election theater, to convince low-info voters to stay home in 2026

“Late Friday night, the Fifth Circuit adopted the extreme minority view—that the government can indefinitely detain without bond millions of non-citizens who have been here for generations; who have never committed a crime; and who pose neither a risk of flight nor any threat to public safety.”

Good analogy, Senator

Trump is making the American Empire seem more like the Roman Empire every day doing that stupid little dance of his while historic buildings are demolished is his "Nero plays the lyre while Rome burns" we should have known this since he demolished the Bonwit-Teller building

I am old and have read a lot of laws but this is BY FAR the best proposal for reform of our immigration system I have ever read

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Things are grim but I believe the assholes have overreached. All they have is violence and intimidation and they're up against righteous anger, mutual aid, popular opinion, and *there are more of us than them.* Violence and intimidation are *not enough.* Hold fast, stay tight. We can win.

As expected, #SCOTUS denies the emergency application to block California’s congressional redistricting—with no public dissents. Among other things, this is also a good addition to the “be cynical but not nihilistic about the Court” file.

ruh roh nice try FBI

JUST IN: SCOTUS declines to take up challenge to Gov. Newsom's redistricting effort in California.

This www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYju...

IF YOU ARE A LAWYER AND ARE INTERESTED IN BEING AN AUSA DM ME!

There's a long history of academic regret for hobnobbing with the rich and powerful, from Plato with Dionysus of Syracuse all the way to the Epstein Files (they just never learn, do they?)

A judicial opinion that includes the phrase "the perfidious lust for unbridled power" is a fine thing. Students looking for a career the legal profession should experience a broad range of humanities and literature studies and/or read a lot of comic books

To me the best thing about this email getting disclosed is how completely ineffective the stupid disclaimer at the bottom is Yes. I know I should be more concerned about the possible victims of Elon Musk's sex tourism but I hate those stupid disclaimers soooo much

"It may take time to prove you're right, but you have to stick to it." - Fred Korematsu Jailed for refusing to abide by FDR's Exec Order 9066, he took his case against internment all the way to the Supreme Court - and lost. Remember him on Korematsu Day, January 30th. 1/

Another one for the "who's going to stop him?" crowd to sit on and spin

This is good but "qualified immunity" applies to CIVIL claims for money Pro: victims hire their own lawyers, not Trump's DOJ under 42 USC 1988, lawyers get paid if they win Trump cannot pardon civil judgments Con: no prison agents are covered by insurance and subrogation is rare

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I love how jamelle bouie uses a gaming metaphor (rather than a sports metaphor) for flailing behavior

I haven't watched enough CSI to know whether it would do any good, but can they still send the cadaver dogs to Trump's golf course at Rancho Palos Verdes for corpses from the mid-90s?

Federal case against Luigi Mangione continues to crumble A criminal trial gives the gov't a chance to prove it should be allowed to punish the accused alleging or even proving that "he did it" is only part of that So far the gov't is losing badly www.cnn.com/2026/01/30/u...

When you say shit like, "We already have a warrant requirement, it's called the Constitution" I will block you I don't expect everyone to understand things like "enabling" acts But if you don't then STFU about legislation Post pictures of your dog in a little hat

Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About https://theonion.com/democrats-sick-of-being-blamed-for-cowardice-on-issues-1847675639/

I guess a ban on summary execution of citizens was a "bridge too far"

World chuckles as Europe tries to rebrand itself as an "alternative to imperialism" (perhaps hoping everyone else will forget about the last 500 years) apnews.com/article/germ...

Y'all do realize ICE "backing down" means they're just gonna stick to terrorizin' minorities, right?

DOJ career gov't lawyers have been replaced by GOP hacks from the private sector Clue: they assert nonexistent legal rights of "privacy" and "confidentiality" for goons (like insurance defense or corporate counsel) rather than stonewalling for "national security" or "ongoing investigation"