I will never understand complaints about news media paywalls. Until the Internet arrived, the entire history of journalism comprised of paywalls -- you bought newspapers and magazines at the stand or had a subscription.

Truly an unreal moment, as a crowd gathers at 10:30pm on a Friday night outside the Kennedy Center as a crew puts up scaffolding to take down Donald Trump’s name.

imagine drawing a crowd in the middle of the night to watch them remove your name from a building

New: Judge Angel Kelley in Boston ordered the Trump administration to reinstall exhibits and signs on topics like slavery ‌and climate change that it had removed from parks and monuments nationwide because they "do not align with its preferred narrative." www.reuters.com/world/trump-...

New: Judge Angel Kelley in Boston ordered the Trump administration to reinstall exhibits and signs on topics like slavery ‌and climate change that it had removed from parks and monuments nationwide because they "do not align with its preferred narrative." www.reuters.com/world/trump-...

New: Judge Sarah Merriam of the 2nd Circuit has for the second time since 2023 has agreed to take steps to improve the workplace climate of her chambers after her law clerks raised concerns about the "tense and challenging" atmosphere she fostered. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Prosecutor in 2017 anti-Trump protest cases faces 6-month suspension reut.rs/4e7826E

EXCLUSIVE — FBI agents raided the Cleveland offices of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative, a pro-democracy organization that helps register voters in that state, according to three people briefed on the search.

Reading through this report (which unusually granular and detailed) and I’m struck by the fact that it was a French agency — and not Meta or any U.S. government effort — that unmasked an attempt to tamper with a high profile election in the United States’ biggest city.

New: A federal judge blocked Republican Texas AG Ken Paxton from continuing to pursue ​a lawsuit against the Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue over its donation practices, ‌saying he was retaliating against it for fundraising on behalf of his Senate opponent. www.reuters.com/world/us-jud...

New: A federal judge blocked Republican Texas AG Ken Paxton from continuing to pursue ​a lawsuit against the Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue over its donation practices, ‌saying he was retaliating against it for fundraising on behalf of his Senate opponent. www.reuters.com/world/us-jud...

Interesting (and unusual) arrest of an alleged Russian APT member in Thailand, this one from the group recently dubbed "Void Blizzard." By @nateraymond.bsky.social: www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Example of a case DOJ didn't do a press release on and that one could find the old fashioned way by checking for newly-unsealed dockets.

New out of Boston: A suspected Russian hacker who was arrested last year in Thailand at the FBI's behest is now in U.S. custody and has been charged ​with facilitating a campaign of cyberattacks carried out by a Russia-aligned ‌group called Void Blizzard. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Federal authorities served a search warrant on Wednesday at a Southern California aerospace facility where a chemical tank overheated last month, forcing 50,000 residents to evacuate because authorities feared an explosion. n.pr/4v4exgk

New out of Boston: A suspected Russian hacker who was arrested last year in Thailand at the FBI's behest is now in U.S. custody and has been charged ​with facilitating a campaign of cyberattacks carried out by a Russia-aligned ‌group called Void Blizzard. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

"Don't play possum with this court." A DC judge declined to take immediate action re: the "anti-weaponization" fund, crediting DOJ's assurances it won't happen, but warned the govt not to go back on its word. Other legal fights and a judicial inquiry remain active www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

My latest: Judge Daniel Traynor, one of Trump's federal appeals court nominees, defended his decision to join with 12 other judges in boycotting the hiring of clerks from Columbia University in response to its handling of pro-Palestinian demonstrations on its campus. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

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#BREAKING Transcripts from grand jury proceedings that led to the "Broadview Six" indictment have been made public. Here is the first, from Oct. 9: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

My latest: President Trump is gaining a chance to appoint a new judge to the conservative-majority 5th Circuit ​after one of his first-term appointees, Judge Kurt Engelhardt, made the decision to step back from ‌active service. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

New: An indictment has been dismissed that charged an LGBTQ rights attorney with lying during an inquiry into whether he and others engaged in "judge shopping" to challenge Alabama's ban on gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth. The dismissal is sealed. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County are suing to block an ICE detention center on the city's west side, saying federal agencies cut them out of most of the planning.

New: Judge Ryan Nelson of the 9th Circuit is facing a judicial misconduct inquiry after news reports over the weekend revealed that he had been criminally ​charged over a parking lot dispute in Idaho in April. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

New: 9th Circuit Judge Ryan Nelson is facing a judicial misconduct complaint from a court reform group after records showed he was criminally charged in a parking lot dispute ​in Idaho in April. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

JUST IN: Judge denies bid by transgender care recipients to block grand jury subpoena for records Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford. Judge Casey Pitts (Biden/CAND) rejects tactic of suing hospital. Could move to quash in TXND. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

President Trump has pardoned former U.S. Representative Stephen Buyer, an Indiana Republican, who was convicted of engaging in insider trading in 2018 as a T-Mobile US ‌consultant ahead of a $23 billion merger with Sprint. www.reuters.com/world/trump-...

Morgan & Morgan, the largest U.S. personal injury law firm, has hired JPMorgan to explore a minority stake sale that could pave the way for a public listing years from now, @reuters.com reports. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

New: A federal judge in Rhode Island has referred DOJ lawyers for potential discipline based on statements they made while fighting a bid to quash a subpoena ‌forcing a hospital to hand over records regarding its provision of gender-affirming care to transgender youth. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

New: A federal judge in Rhode Island ruled that President Donald Trump’s administration had unlawfully barred applicants from 39 countries from receiving decisions on ​asylum, work permits, green cards and citizenship. www.reuters.com/world/us-jud...

A federal judge questioned whether Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is unconstitutionally chilling political speech by pursuing a lawsuit against the Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue over its donation practices @nateraymond.bsky.social reut.rs/49E9bjn

The Colorado Court of Appeals has reversed the homicide convictions of two former paramedics charged in the 2019 killing of Elijah McClain and ordered new trials They were both convicted of criminally negligent homicide in Dec. 2023

New: A federal judge in Boston today questioned whether Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is unconstitutionally chilling political speech by pursuing a lawsuit against the Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue over its donation practices. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

New: A federal judge in Boston today questioned whether Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is unconstitutionally chilling political speech by pursuing a lawsuit against the Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue over its donation practices. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

The Trump administration agreed to strip endangered ​species protection from a lizard whose habitat overlapped the largest oil-producing region in the United ‌States, settling a lawsuit by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

Second (but *not* last) #SCOTUS ruling is in Sriptech v. SEC. For a unanimous Court, Justice Gorsuch sides with SEC; holds that "a showing of pecuniary loss to investors is *not* required before the SEC may obtain a disgorgement award." www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Ohio State University has reached a $100 million settlement with nearly 300 former students who had accused the school's campus doctor of sexually assaulting them decades ago, the school and a lawyer for the victims said on Wednesday.

New: A federal judge in Boston rejected the DOJ's bid to defeat a lawsuit by a group of Democratic-led states challenging part of President Trump's crackdown on providers of gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

New: A federal judge in Boston rejected the DOJ's bid to defeat a lawsuit by a group of Democratic-led states challenging part of President Trump's crackdown on providers of gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

New: A federal judicial panel today approved a rule change designed to help judges better comply with their obligations to recuse themselves from cases in which they own stock ​in the companies appearing before them. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

The Republican-led House Judiciary Committee advanced a proposed constitutional amendment that would permanently limit the number of justices on the Supreme Court ​to nine, citing the potential for Democrats to "pack the court" if they regain control ‌of Congress. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

New: A federal judicial panel on today advanced proposed rule changes that would expand privacy protections for Americans who file documents in court by requiring sensitive information to ​be redacted and minors to be referred to by pseudonyms. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

UPDATE: DOJ's nod to Graham's idea seems to be gone x.com/i/status/206...

JUST IN: DOJ's No. 3 official @ASGWoodward signals dept will take up an option we raised here and pay off many J6ers using ordinary DOJ procedures www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

Trump 2020 election denier Kurt Olsen joins Justice Department @agoudsward.bsky.social www.reuters.com/legal/legali...

Santos "went on to say the co-founder of Kalshi, Luana Lopes Lara, is 'a fellow Brazilian,' whom he personally knows ... The person familiar with Kalshi's investigation said Santos, the son of Brazilian immigrants, does not know Lara, a Brazilian-American."

a you-can't-make-it-up @bobbyallyn.bsky.social scoop: George Santos told X followers he was going to the State of the Union. Then he didn't show - and placed bets on Kalshi that netted him tens of thousands of dollars. Now he's under federal investigation by DOJ and CFTC www.npr.org/2026/06/02/n...

The U.S. Justice Department's agreement with President Donald Trump to bar future audits into his or his family's past tax records will remain in place even as his weaponization fund has been put on hold, two sources familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.

JUST IN: DOJ's Board of Immigration Appeals rules that detention is mandatory for minors who entered the country illegally, even if they have Special Immigrant Juvenile status. Doc: www.justice.gov/eoir/media/1... Most courts disagree: www.politico.com/news/2026/05...