NEWS: During a hearing in federal court in VA, prosecutors confirmed that the operative indictment in the case against James Comey was never shown to or voted on by the entire grand jury before it was presented in open court. Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution

MORE: Under questioning by the judge, prosecutor Tyler Lemons said that he’s under orders from the Deputy Attorney Generals’s office not to disclose whether there is a declination memo recommending against the prosecution of Comey

This Thanksgiving please remember to give thanks to the Lord that Trump and his people are so unbelievably incompetent 🙏🏼🦃

I was fine after getting both shingles shots, although my husband had flu-like symptoms after each of the 2 doses. Still, that seems a small price to pay to reduce your dementia risk. Shingles vaccine most promising common drug to potentially prevent Alzheimer's, medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11...

exciting as the potential overturning of this awful map is, it's worth noting that the 2021 map is *still* a gerrymander, just a less egregious one

@meidastouch.com @lincolnproject.us @gtconway.bsky.social This 100% this

Purcell as a one-free-election-with-an-illegal-map legal doctrine.

A point made by the great @traviscrum.bsky.social

And here's what I told @joshgerstein.bsky.social for @politico.com on this point: “What if a state passes a really suppressive law right before the election? Whites only can vote,” Hasen said. “The court is really going to say, ‘Sorry, it’s too close to the election?’ … I don’t think so.”

Um, we already know they recommended not charging Comey. We know this because Donald Trump fired the US Attorney who made that recommendation and then inserted an unqualified Glamour Shots model to bring the indictment, even though she's never prosecuted a case.

She lied on TV under oath. But Comey...

And while you're at it, please feel free to cite my piece on Footnote 3 of the immunity decision...in Footnote 3 of your law review article or judicial opinion. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!! www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...

Beg pardon?

11TH CIRCUIT: “.. We have held that, by using ‘Big Lie’ to describe Trump, CNN was not publishing a false statement of fact. Therefore, whether CNN used ‘Big Lie’ one time or many is irrelevant to the question of falsity.” @mediaite.com $WBD www.mediaite.com/lawcrime/dis...

Agree this is an important piece. Also: -Don't miss Lincoln Caplan's excellent piece, on same theme, last month in Harvard magazine www.harvardmagazine.com/legal/suprem... -Every Roberts profile should point out that he was on GWB's Florida Recount team in 2000. As were Brett K, Amy CB.

John Roberts once promised to be like an umpire. He charmed both senators and the media, and for 20 years, was portrayed as a moderate institutionalist. But today, it's become clear that the promise was a lie. We are watching a rigged game, and Roberts set it up.

The billionaire CEO claims the new steering wheel-less, pedal-less Cybercab goes into production in April. But Tesla doesn’t have a regulatory exemption needed to sell it — it hasn't even applied for it.

Take Clinton’s name off of everything it’s ever been associated with and erase it from history as you lock him in his cell for the rest of his life for all I care.. Same for Trump, Larry Summers, Michael Wolff, the NYT’s reporter and everyone else named or affiliated in any way with these files..

Personalized gold bars from the Swiss. Used jumbo jet from Qatar. Huge amounts of $$$ from crypto. The amount of corruption in the White House is at unconscionable levels. We need some real serious ethics across the federal government.

one thing about this is that in the wake of all of this kirk is basically forgotten. he was barely cold in the ground before his allies — before his *wife* — started scheming over what they could take for themselves. a real life parable.

Trump is reusing his scandal playbook on the Epstein files Trump has a predictable set of arguments. The one coming next is clear.

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Trump didn’t need a discharge petition to release the MLK Jr., JFK, or Earhart files. So why are the Epstein files the one set he refuses to touch?

NEW: The White House intervened on behalf of accused sex trafficker Andrew Tate during a federal investigation. “It was so offensive to what we’re all here to do, to uphold the law and protect the American people,” one official involved said.

House demands Epstein financial records from J.P. Morgan, Deutsche Bank and US Virgin Islands

Trump didn’t need a discharge petition to release the MLK Jr., JFK, or Earhart files. So why are the Epstein files the one set he refuses to touch?

For the first time in my life I wish I lived in DC

If Donald Trump wants to release the Epstein files, he could just release them, instead of green-lighting the House resolution. And it's not as if he cares whether he has statutory authority to do a lot of what he's been doing. But he needs a law for this?

NEW: Court blocks Texas's mid-decade redistricting, finding it likely unconstitutional, with DOJ largely to blame. "DOJ Asked Texas to Engage in Unlawful Racial Gerrymandering," Judge Jeffrey Brown, a Trump appointee, wrote for the 2-1 majority. Texas is appealing to the Supreme Court. Law Dork:

BREAKING: A federal court has BLOCKED Texas' gerrymandered congressional maps from going into effect for the 2026 election

Kirks evangelical mission in Romania was accused of kidnapping and trafficking children but nothing was ever done about it. She also worked for Trump.

Seeing “the bill only authorizes the release of unclassified material” but wouldn’t that raise the question why anything pertaining to a sex trafficker would be classified?

Decent @washingtonpost.com headline for what is among the clearest impeachable offenses Trump has so far engaged in

Pay attention to how Mike Johnson is trying to shift the narrative today - he’s saying some Epstein files can’t be released because they’re intelligence products and would harm national security.

When Texas tried to steal 5 seats, I said to watch the litigation my law firm had filed because we had a good chance of winning in court. Today a federal court BLOCKED THE MAP. While the legacy media ignored our case, Democracy Docket covered it from gavel to gavel. Subscribe now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

Do read this!

Gee...I wonder how that happened...

Don't believe Mike Johnson for a nanosecond – he's not trying to protect the survivors – they fully endorse the release of the Epstein files.

Raskin: "We hear even the Speaker of the House openly inviting the US Senate to start finger painting on this bill, which we have waited more than 5 months to bring to the floor. The Senate should pass the bill exactly as it's written ... the president could release the Epstein files right now!"

Trump’s White House leaned on DHS to help accused sex trafficker Andrew Tate get his seized devices back. A Trump aide who once joked about having a “Nazi streak” pressed agents to hand evidence to an alleged predator. This isn’t law and order — it’s the sexual predator protection program.

Breaking: Federal Court on 2-1 Vote Blocks Texas from using new Congressional Gerrymander for 2026 Midterms, Requires Using 2021 Maps (Link to ruling) electionlawblog.org?p=153084

Garcia: Trump has the power to release the files today. He does not even need a vote. He continues to defy the subpoena of the oversight committee to release all the files. What is Donald Trump hiding?

US PRES TRUMP SAYS ABC’S LICENSE SHOULD BE TAKEN AWAY AFTER REPORTER ASKS ABOUT EPSTEIN Once again, ABC doesn't have a license. That's not how this works.

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OK - now Compass v. Zillow hearing on requesting injunction against Zillow's "ban" on listing properties unless they have in the first 24 hours - Inner City Press has been covering the case and will live skeet the hearing, below

In the Harper's Letter, one of the things they got right was this: "The forces of illiberalism are gaining strength throughout the world and have a powerful ally in Donald Trump, who represents a real threat to democracy." So, here it is.

Bari Weiss, I believe this is your moment.

Breaking: A Trump-appointed judge just ruled that Texas Republicans CANNOT use their new gerrymandered map in the 2026 midterm elections.