Today's Lawfare Daily is a Jan. 5 livestream where @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org, @annabower.bsky.social, @sranderson.bsky.social, @ericcolumbus.bsky.social, @michael-feinberg.bsky.social, and @katherinepomps.bsky.social discussed the arraignment of Nicolás Maduro, and more.

How many DEA agents does it take to arraign an abducted Venezuelan dictator (and his wife)? My Lawfare colleague @katherinepomps.bsky.social braved the weather and The Line to find out. Read the details in her dispatch from Maduro’s arraignment, out now: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/me-c...

I spent the day covering Nicolás Maduro’s first court appearance in SDNY. What happened inside, beyond the headlines: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/me-c...

Artist: Christine Cornell Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores make their first appearance in a Manhattan courtroom on Monday on federal drug and weapons charges. Both pleaded not guilty to all charges.

Just got out of the Maduro arraignment and settled at a coffee shop. Here's what you need to know:

help I have yet to see anyone older than me

In The Situation, @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org and @katherinepomps.bsky.social create a choose-your-own-adventure game for Lindsey Halligan which reflects all the many, many ways she can lose the James Comey case if reinstated.

🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style. Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.

My 86 yr old Papa. Let’s go!!! #NoKings

If a Hatch Act violation takes place in a forest, but the Office of Special Counsel is vacant, did the violation actually occur?

Watching the cable news commentary on the bullet engravings is wild because none of these people seem to realize that the content of the engravings are indicative of extremely online meme brain rot

In a suit filed earlier today by three fired FBI officials, Patel and Bongino are portrayed as being so obsessed with social media that it could “risk outweighing more deliberate analyses of investigations."

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has anybody checked in on rudy giuliani lately?

Tick tick tick tick tick…

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

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THE GIRLIES ARE FIGHTING

When the attorney general makes a factual claim about law enforcement, it's important to take it seriously. So I contacted the DOJ and ran the numbers. New from yours truly for @lawfaremedia.org

A colleague emailed me today to flag the fact that the superb Fourth Circuit Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson ended a quotidian insurance opinion with an unusually introspective conclusion.

You cannot placate a bully by complying. It will never work. They’ll keep pushing until someone says no

Law firms if you make a deal with this man keep in mind that you’re also signing up for him to publicly humiliate you like this every few days

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Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School, was detained at Logan Airport after returning from France and sent to an ICE detention in Louisiana, The Insider reports. A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.

Sent to USAID essential personnel this morning

Did anyone vote for Elon

New from the inimitable @rparloff.bsky.social. A must read: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/even...

Debates about what we owe the dead have persisted for millennia, yet the law offers incomplete and unsatisfying answers. For @thedialmag.bsky.social, I wrote about the rights of the dead and the legal scholars and forensic anthropologists who work to protect them. www.thedial.world/articles/lit...

so the vibe here +j6 pardons is violence is cool as long as it advances trump’s agenda ??? totally totally

as far as i know, this is the first mention of the achen/bartels shark attacks paper ever to grace the pages of lawfare

Attorney General nominee Pam Bondi, six days ago: “I abhor violence to police officers.” “I condemn any violence on a law enforcement officer in this country.”

He commuted sentences of 14 convicted or charged with seditious conspiracy and then pardoned everyone else. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

This is the kind of reader response I kill for.

Good morning from 100 Centre Street in Manhattan, where the President-elect is set to be criminally sentenced on 34 felony convictions for falsification of business records. I’m here with @tylermcbrien.bsky.social and @katherinepomps.bsky.social for @lawfare.bsky.social. Follow along 👇 ⬇️🧵

Good morning from 100 Centre St where I’m waiting to enter the courtroom for President-Elect Trump’s sentencing. I’m here for @lawfare.bsky.social with @annabower.bsky.social and @katherinepomps.bsky.social. I’ll be posting on the *other site* and Anna will be posting here. It’s divide and conquer.

Early dispatch from outside NYC criminal court: IT’S COLD

A huge thank you to @ellereeve.bsky.social for joining me on Lawfare Daily! Elle and I had a fascinating conversation about her book “Black Pill” and the evolution of alt-right internet culture from insidious corners of the internet to the political mainstream. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/lawf...

On Lawfare Daily, @katherinepomps.bsky.social spoke to @ellereeve.bsky.social about her investigative reporting and "Black Pill," what it's like to build a working relationship with alt-right figures, the 2017 Charlottesville Unite the Right Rally, Jan. 6, the 2024 presidential election, and more.

My first ever #GetReadyWithMe video! youtu.be/XkgH7RUXsBY?...

Something big is happening at Lawfare HQ… @benjaminwittes.bsky.social

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