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Ex-legal columnist at Reuters. So many other things.
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Roger Parloff
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Look at this new outrage. To open govt, we're retroactively letting 8 Senators sue for $500K each over having had their J6 phone toll records looked at.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
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Spending Bill Would Pave Way for Senators to Sue Over Phone Searches
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/us/politics/senators-shutdown-smith-phone-searches.html?unlocked_article_code=1.0E8.cU57.ifmN9cWGUHoV&smid=bs-share
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Prof Caroline Mala Corbin
about 17 hours ago
"It is illegal for a coin to be issued with 'the image of a living former or current President, or of any deceased former President during the 2-year period following the date of the death...," per a law on currency designs."
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It is ILLEGAL Dictator Trump cares not at all
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Donald Trump Is Putting His Face on Both Sides of a New Coin. U.S. Treasury Reveals 'First Drafts'
The U.S. Treasury revealed the draft of a $1 coin featuring President Donald Trump on both sides.
https://people.com/donald-trump-is-putting-his-face-on-a-new-coin-u-s-treasury-reveals-first-drafts-11824421
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Rachel Maddow
about 19 hours ago
"Maxwell has received custom meals personally delivered to her cell, after-hours time in a private exercise area, access to a service puppy, and private meetings with visitors arranged by the warden, complete with snacks. Visitors were allowed to bring computers..."
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Democrats reveal whistleblower details of Ghislaine Maxwell prison âluxuriesâ
In a letter to the president, House Democrats say Maxwellâs treatment as she prepares a clemency request makes the convicted sex offender look like a âguest at a Trump hotel.â
https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/democrats-whistleblower-ghislaine-maxwell-prison-luxuries-rcna242928
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Courtney Bublé
about 18 hours ago
NEWS: The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a subcommittee hearing chaired by Cruz on 11/18 titled "Impeachment: Holding Rogue Judges Responsible" This is a big escalation in the rhetoric we've been hearing for months on this
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Andrew Case
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Long Island is the Hamptons and grand estates, but it is also a destination for new arrivals - more than 30% of the residents of Nassau County speak a language other than English at home, which is why weâre suing the Nassau County PD for denying translations:
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âWe speak English here': Nassau County Police sued for language access
The lawsuit claims Nassau County's police department has a written policy requiring officers to help non-native English speakers, but that many do not follow it in practice.
https://gothamist.com/news/we-speak-english-here-nassau-county-police-sued-for-language-access
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Nicholas Grossman
1 day ago
The real choice, no matter how much Senators wish it weren't: "Unfortunately, making things better for the American people coming out of this shutdown is probably not an option. Either Trump makes things worse with Democratic affirmation, or Trump makes things worse despite Democratic opposition."
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Opinion | Democrats shouldnât bail out Trump as the shutdown drags on
The best time for the opposition to take a stand, rather than settle for untrustworthy promises, is right now.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/democrats-trump-government-shutdown-fight-rcna235478
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Kyle Cheney
1 day ago
JUST IN: Two pitchers with the Cleveland Guardians have been charged with a gambling/ bribery/ money laundering conspiracy. See the indictment:
www.justice.gov/usao-edny/me...
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Norm Eisen
2 days ago
A leading federal judge quits in protest of Trump's corruption-- & to fight it Wow
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Why I Am Leaving the Federal Bench
A judge explains his reasons for resigning.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/federal-judge-resignation-trump/684845/?gift=vf1DGKhD1xBHQ3siCRuAVcz-qxehhrT47kEa20qvhPE&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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The Washington Post
4 days ago
Breaking news: The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to pause an order directing it to release SNAP benefits in full. The request came after the administration said it was working to release the benefits, suggesting the money was going to be dispersed.
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Trump administration asks Supreme Court to block order on releasing SNAP benefits
A federal judge had directed the administration to release full benefits for November. The administration is appealing the order.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/11/07/snap-food-court-order-trump-administration/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
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Kate Jackson
4 days ago
Easy credit, opaque and hyped up financial instruments, defanged regulators, atop an economy still recovering from a pandemicâŠ
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Opinion | Trump Is Pushing Us Toward a Crash. It Could Be 1929 All Over Again.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/opinion/donald-trump-great-gatsby-roating-20s-sec.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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My goodness! 2028 is going to be spicy
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Atul Gawande
5 days ago
I helped make a film, out this week, called âRovinaâs Choice,â about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused â already 600,000, â of them children.
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1000 years??? Wharton should demand he give back his degree.
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The Associated Press
6 days ago
BREAKING: A federal judge ordered prosecutors in the criminal case of former FBI Director James Comey to produce a trove of materials from the investigation.
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Judge in Comey case scolds prosecutors as he orders them to produce records from probe
A federal judge has ordered prosecutors in the criminal case of former FBI Director James Comey to produce materials from the investigation, saying he's concerned the Justice Departmentâs position had been to âindict first and investigate later.â
https://bit.ly/43hAJYB
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gelbach
6 days ago
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Bolts
6 days ago
RESULT: Alvin Bragg, the Democratic district attorney for Manhattan, has been reelected, per the AP.
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Iâm on lunch break from serving as a poll worker in my small town in NY. I wish everyone did this work at least once in their adult lives so they could see the soul-affirming beauty of free elections â and how much work goes into assuring that every vote counts.
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Julie DiCaro
8 days ago
NEW: Judge Karin Immergut has entered a preliminary injunction against Pete Hegseht from deploying the National Guard in Portland.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71481...
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Vladdy Guerrero is irresistible.
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Kyle Griffin
11 days ago
Reuters: US JUDGE RULES TRUMP ADMINISTRATION'S PLAN TO SUSPEND SNAP FOOD AID BENEFITS DURING SHUTDOWN IS LIKELY UNLAWFUL
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Sammy Roth
12 days ago
NEWS: CBS News gutted its climate team as part of the big Paramount layoffs this week. These journalists had been doing incredible reporting on extreme heat, flooding, clean energy investments and more. I've got details for Climate-Colored Goggles:
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/cbs-news-g...
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CBS News just gutted its climate team
Paramount and Bari Weiss aren't off to a great start. Here's why David Ellison should change course.
https://www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/cbs-news-gutted-climate
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Josh Gerstein
12 days ago
JUST IN: Anonymous 7th Circuit judge(s) block Chicago federal district judge Sara Ellis' order requiring Border Patrol commander to come to court each evening to report on public interactions during immigration enforcement. Doc:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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#6 in Kristi Noem v. Sara L. Ellis (7th Cir., 25-2936) â CourtListener.com
ORDER re: 1. Petition for a writ of mandamus. 2. Emergency motion for a stay pending a ruling on the governmentâs petition for a writ of mandamus and an immediate administrative stay. The governmentâs...
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca7.55142/gov.uscourts.ca7.55142.6.0_2.pdf
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Joshua J. Friedman
13 days ago
The case against
@katmabu.bsky.social
et al. has been assigned to Judge April Perry, a Biden appointee and the same judge who blocked the Trump admin from deploying the National Guard in Illinois
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Peter Sterne
13 days ago
Indicting Democratic candidates on transparently pretextual charges is the latest sign that things are getting very bad.
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Amy Westervelt
15 days ago
A stat we don't talk about enough: Newspapers have lost 77% of their jobs over the last 20 year, more than any of the 532 other industries tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
15 days ago
The obvious implication of this is that the majority of the Fifth Circuit wants to declare that drag is not protected speech â even if completely PG.
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LongTimeđ€FirstTimeđšâđ»
17 days ago
ICE violently detain U.S. citizen who is standing up for his employeesâtackle his elderly mother in the process. He looks right at Chicago Police just standing around and asks, "Officers, why are you letting this happen?" Nate Griffin is the manager for the Laugh Factory comedy club in Chicago.
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Iâm sure the House Republicans who spent years fulminating about Hunter Biden will be outraged.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze)
17 days ago
It's hard to overstate how fully engaged Chicago and the surrounding suburbs are in this ICE madness. There are neighborhood watch alerts, spontaneous crowds gathering outside schools at pick up & drop off plus madly blowing whistles and honking car horns, this city is fighting back and hard.
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Bridget OâBrien
17 days ago
Went to a prayer service tonight at St. Mary of the Lake, where they have cardboard cutouts throughout the church representing parishioners afraid to come to Mass because of ICE.
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Dan Izzo
19 days ago
Maybe in future administrations we can just create a system by which the uber-wealthy are legally required to write checks to the government based on their level of wealth in order to fund things and make necessary payments.
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Metaphor alert
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Brad Heath
19 days ago
President Trump has pardoned Changpeng Zhao, the convicted founder of the crypto exchange Binance, according to people familiar with the matter, following months of efforts by Zhao to boost the Trump familyâs own crypto company.
www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
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Exclusive | Trump Pardons Convicted Binance Founder
The pardon follows months of efforts by Changpeng Zhao to boost Trump crypto company
https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/trump-pardons-convicted-binance-founder-7509bd63?mod=hp_lead_pos2
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Ryan J. Reilly âpaints a vivid and urgent portrait of⊠disarrayâ
21 days ago
âThe ethical conflict is just so basic and fundamental, you donât need a law professor to explain it.â
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Brad Heath
21 days ago
President Trump is demanding that the Justice Department pay him about $230 million in compensation for the federal investigations into him. Whether he gets paid will ultimately be up to DOJ's second-in-command, who was recently his personal lawyer.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
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Joshua J. Friedman
22 days ago
Oh nooooo, Lindsey Halligan, this is not how any of this works (15 screens into a Signal exchange)
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
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Yes! Tearing it all down after lying about his intentions. First Bonwitâs, now the U.S. government
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Jon Seidel
22 days ago
Meanwhile, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has granted the Trump administration's motion for a stay in Oregon v. Trump, regarding National Guard deployment in Portland. Full opinion here:
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https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/d9/44/ff61b36244febd0f32a7b7adcb85/9thcircuitruling.pdf
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Indivisible âđ
24 days ago
After a week of ridiculous Republican smears and Trump claiming that âvery few people are going to be there,â you just made history.
#NoKings
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Chris Sprigman
24 days ago
I hope each and every one of the fascists who rule this country read this and choke.
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Silky
24 days ago
this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
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David Ho
24 days ago
All these people turning out for No Kings make me proud to be an American.
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Protesters Denouncing Trump Unite Across the Country
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/us/protests-trump-no-kings.html?unlocked_article_code=1.uU8.EKU1.D6xWtj-jyV5o&smid=url-share
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Joanne Freeman
24 days ago
Letâs go make history.
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Marin K. Levy
24 days ago
What a nice day for a little peaceful protesting . . . đ«đ
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No Kings
As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...
https://www.nokings.org
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Clean Observer
25 days ago
Very grateful to see this.
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Weâre going to the Brooklyn rally and figured weâd go see the Monet in Venice show at the Brooklyn Museum afterward. No dice: Too many Antifa Communist Hamas members apparently had the same idea.
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Lawrence Hurley
25 days ago
Just for the record, although I am not really on board with asking justices for interviews to give them free book publicity, I did ask to speak to Barrett and got a swift rejection from the publisher.
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Ted Nesi
25 days ago
NEWSMAKERS: Reuters'
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joins me to discuss the key role New England judges (and AGs) are playing in the legal battles over Trump's policies - is the 1st Circuit is the new 9th? Plus, a week in review Watch online now - tonight/Sunday on 12+ and TV - or get the pod
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Bill Grueskin
25 days ago
Administrators at Indiana University baselessly fired the student media director and ordered the student paper to cease its print edition, so it'd sure be a shame if this excellent digital front page were to be widely shared today
issuu.com/idsnews/docs...
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Josh Gerstein
26 days ago
BREAKING: Major setback for Trump National Guard moves as 7th Circuit declines to disturb block on deployment in Illinois. Judges Rovner, Hamilton, St. Eve (GHWBush/Obama/Trump) see no rebellion permitting use of Guard by prez. Doc:
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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