"President Donald Trump’s military takeover of Chicago will not go forward after the Supreme Court Tuesday upheld a lower court ruling halting his attempt to send hundreds of National Guard troops to the city."

"Missourians filed a lawsuit Tuesday asking a court to stop the state from using its new congressional map until voters have the chance to approve or reject the measure in a referendum."

NEW: The Department of Justice likely deleted an image depicting photographs of President Donald Trump from its online disclosure of the Epstein files. The missing image adds to mounting inconsistencies in the DOJ’s release of the files. ✍️: @jaknutson.bsky.social

Among the Epstein files is this photograph of a shirtless Umar Dzhabrailov, a Russian businessman and politician who represented Chechnya in the Russian Senate from 2004-2009. #Russia

Fantastic investigation by @kyivindependent.com. It sheds light on online fundraisers that claimed to help sick children in #Ukraine. In reality, they used the kids' images to raise millions from unsuspecting people around the world. Very little of that money ever reached the children themselves.

“I’ve waited 30 years,” she said. “I can’t believe it. They can’t call me a liar anymore.”

I also got no results for "the". bsky.app/profile/tris...

Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan’s conviction marks a high-profile victory for the Department of Justice and President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration crackdown. Dugan was accused of helping an immigrant evade federal immigration officials seeking his arrest. ✍️: @jaknutson.bsky.social

NEW: An appeals panel Wednesday unanimously cleared the way for President Donald Trump to keep troops in Washington, DC. ✍️: @jaknutson.bsky.social www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Well this is alarming... Eric Neff, a Republican attorney with a web of ties to election-conspiracy theorists, is the new acting chief of the voting section at the U.S. Department of Justice. ✍️: @mattdcohen.bsky.social www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Shortly after Abrego Garcia’s release Thursday, immigration officials tried to arrest him again after an immigration judge retroactively “corrected” a years-old ruling in his immigration case — a move experts slammed as an unethical violation of due process rights.

Absolute lawlessness in the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case. This was necessary because an immigration judge tried to use a procedure intended to correct typos & omitted words to alter a 2019 ruling in Abrego Garcia's case and force his removal from the US.

‼️ The suit marks the first time the DOJ has demanded actual ballots from state or local officials as part of its pursuit of a myriad of election conspiracies. ✍️: @jaknutson.bsky.social

NEW: indiana republicans have *rejected* trump's redistricting plan. the threats, harassment and intimidation simply didn't work. the vote wasn't even close. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

This happened because Trump couldn't shut the eff up. incredible. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

This is a rare — and important — instance of Republicans defying the wishes of Donald Trump.

BREAKING: In a powerful reproach to President Trump, the Republican-controlled #Indiana Senate voted, by a wide margin, against a mid-decade redistricting that would have gerrymandered the state’s congressional maps. ✍️: @jimsaksa.com

Let that sink in: The Trump Administration launched a full-court press to free Andrew and Tristan Tate, two "manosphere" influencers (who teach a 'pimping hoes degree' course) accused of trafficking and rape in Romania. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...

NEW: How weak is the DOJ's case against New York Attorney General Letitia James? Grand juries have rejected it twice in a week.

This is actually quite sad: a career FBI agent — not a toady, but a competent professional — try to keep his job. I worked at Voice of America right before Trump shut it down, so I got a taste of what it's like to feel you'll need to compromise your values to continue working for the greater good.

Total amateur hour in U.S. law enforcement at the moment, where the number one terrorist threat is an organization that does not formally exist and a career #FBI official is dancing around before a congressional committee trying to make the Trump administration's strategy sound legit.

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered the immediate release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran man whose arrest, illegal removal to El Salvador and return to U.S. immigration detention became a flashpoint in President Donald Trump’s lawless immigration crackdown. ✍️: @jaknutson.bsky.social

Opponents of #Missouri's Trump-backed #redistricting handed in over 300,000 signatures this week to put the matter to a statewide referendum. Despite that, the #gerrymander map may go into effect — against precedent and possibly law. @jenrice.bsky.social explains.

NEW: The DOJ has launched a sweeping civil rights investigation into Colorado’s prison system. And it’s signaling that the probe is part of President Donald Trump’s effort to free the election denier Tina Peters. ✍️: @mattdcohen.bsky.social, @yuniorarivas.bsky.social

NEW: A federal judge Wednesday again attempted to prevent President Donald Trump from keeping hundreds of federalized California National Guard members stationed in Los Angeles. ✍️: @jaknutson.bsky.social www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Two important wins for voting rights in the battle over #Missouri's Trump-backed gerrymander: Yesterday, a federal judge tossed Republicans' lawsuit attempting to stop voters from pursuing a referendum against the state’s new congressional map, @yuniorarivas.bsky.social reports.

Wild new reporting from @mattdcohen.bsky.social: GOP lawyer Eric Neff, who recently took on a leading role in the DOJ’s push to obtain state voter records, briefly represented Patrick Byrne, the prominent election-conspiracy theorist who aided President Trump’s effort to steal the 2020 election.

Yet another entry in the chronicle of "Trump & Co. accusing opponents of doing the very thing he's doing."

NEW: Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) calls for an investigation into the Trump administration's "repeated, blatant" abuse of power to achieve partisan redistricting goals, alleging it violates federal law. This renewed demand comes after his first request rendered no updates.

Besides being a power grab that erodes minorities' electoral influence, President Trump's push for mid-decade partisan redistricting will just gum up the democratic system. An excerpt from my colleague @jimsaksa.com's reporting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

"At one point in the hearing, Justice Sonia Sotomayor warned that through the case, the court could dismantle the modern U.S. government. "You’re asking us to destroy the structure of the government,' Sotomayor said...." ✍️: @jaknutson.bsky.social www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism. Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.

‼️ BREAKING: Supreme Court to Hear Trump’s Bid To Eliminate Birthright Citizenship On his first day in office, Trump signed an executive order attempting to end birthright citizenship for children born to parents who are undocumented or have temporary residency status. ✍️: @jaknutson.bsky.social

Wow. Quite a story from @mattdcohen.bsky.social. A Republican lawyer who recently took on a leading role in the DOJ effort to obtain state voter records was put on leave as a prosecutor in Los Angeles County after bringing charges based on information from far-right election conspiracists.

NEW: A three-judge panel for the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Friday approved President Donald Trump’s arbitrary firings of two officials at independent agencies that defend the rights of workers. A dissenting judge warned that it “brings us closer to autocracy." ✍️: @jaknutson.bsky.social

‼️ BREAKING: #SCOTUS Allows Texas to Use Racially Gerrymandered Map in 2026 Midterm Elections Under the new #Texas map, Republicans could pick up five more seats in Congress. It's a major win in #Trump's effort to rig the midterms through redistricting. ✍️: @jenrice.bsky.social

NEW: In a big loss for the DOJ's efforts to prosecute Trump's foes, a Virginia grand jury has refused to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James on alleged mortgage fraud charges, according to media reports. ✍️: @jaknutson.bsky.social www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Absolutely bonkers. New guidelines for enhanced vetting of H-1B visas would disqualify applicants (and family members) involved in "censorship." How is that defined? Countering #disinformation, content moderation, fact-checking, online safety, compliance, etc. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

NEW: Trump commuted the sentence of billion dollar Ponzi schemer David Gentile days into his sentence. Gentile's business history is long intermingled with former oligarch Michael Cherney, wanted by Interpol for alleged ties to Russian organized crime. jacquelinesweet.substack.com/p/trump-comm...

NEW: As Missourians fight to stave off a GOP gerrymander by putting it to a statewide vote, Trump Jr. entered the fray, calling the referendum organizer a "leftist nut job" trying to "STEAL a GOP house seat." Organizer Richard Von Glahn says Missourians won't be intimidated. ✍️: @jenrice.bsky.social

NEW: Despite being disqualified from serving as acting U.S. attorney for New Jersey, Trump loyalist Alina Habba and the DOJ are still claiming she’s the top federal prosecutor in the state. And she isn’t the first Trump appointee to do so.

NEW: Despite Disqualifications, Trump Appointees Still Claim to Be Top Federal Prosecutors "The DOJ’s failure to acknowledge court rulings against Habba and Halligan... fits into a broader pattern: the Trump administration’s callous disregard for judicial authority." ✍️: @jaknutson.bsky.social

So, I guess all corruption is okay now? Worth noting that Rep. Cuellar and his wife hadn't even gone to trial yet, but Trump is pardoning them.

The Trump admin has paused all immigration and naturalization processes for people from one of the 19 travel ban countries; including Cuba and Venezuela. Even people who fully passed the citizenship exam are having their cases put on hold, just inches from the finish line.

Scoop: The Trump administration has paused all immigration applications filed by people from 19 countries banned from travel to the United States earlier this year, halting green card and U.S. citizenship processing for broad swaths of people. More coming soon.

"If taken seriously, thousands of people who received lawful pardons or commutations could suddenly find themselves in a new legal limbo and potentially re-criminalized — an outcome with no precedent in U.S. history." ✍️: @yuniorarivas.bsky.social

NEW: An Indiana House committee voted 8-5 to approve a new GOP-backed congressional map, advancing the measure over the objections of Democrats and members of the public who called it a racial gerrymander that unlawfully dilutes the voting strength of minority communities. ✍️: @jenrice.bsky.social

📺 HAPPENING NOW The Indiana House Elections and Apportionment Committee is currently holding a public hearing on GOP lawmakers' proposed redistricting bill. Want to tune in live? Watch below👇

NEW: Republicans in Indiana’s State House released a draft congressional map that could eliminate both districts currently held by Democrats. It comes after months of pressure to gerrymander from President Trump and weeks of escalating threats & harassment against lawmakers. ✍️: @jenrice.bsky.social

NEW: In a settlement with four Republican-led states, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agreed to redesign its federal immigration database to serve voter 'verification' purposes — a move that could supercharge wrongful purges and threaten voter privacy. ✍️: @yuniorarivas.bsky.social