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legal affairs correspondent // The New York Times first dot last at n y times dot com
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Steve Merelman
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3 Prosecutors Quit After Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim’s Widow
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/us/3-prosecutors-quit-after-push-to-investigate-ice-shooting-victims-widow.html
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Greg Jaffe
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"She along with hundreds of other recruiters around the country, had been offering something else: protection from the government she served."
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...
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U.S. Citizens Are Joining the Military to Protect Undocumented Parents
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/us/politics/oregon-guard-undocumented-parents.html?unlocked_article_code=1.D1A.m097.5TWLq4jndr_k&smid=url-share
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The New York Times
2 days ago
Appeals court judges chosen by President Trump in his first term have voted overwhelmingly in his favor when his administration’s actions have been challenged in court in his current term, clearing the way for his policies, a New York Times analysis shows.
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Trump’s ‘Superstar’ Appellate Judges Have Voted 133 to 12 in His Favor
President Trump promised to fill the appeals courts with “my judges.” They have formed a nearly united phalanx to defend his agenda from legal challenges.
https://nyti.ms/4jAriKN
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Colby Smith
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NEW: Federal prosecutors have opened up a criminal investigation into Fed chair Powell over the central bank’s renovation of its Washington headquarters and whether Powell lied to Congress about the scope of the project
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...
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Federal Prosecutors Are Said to Have Opened Inquiry Into Fed Chair Powell
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/us/politics/jerome-powell-fed-inquiry-trump.html
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NEW: Trump’s ‘Superstar’ Appellate Judges Have Voted 133 to 12 in His Favor President Trump promised to fill the appeals courts with “my judges.” They have formed a nearly united phalanx to defend his agenda from legal challenges. 🎁 >
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...
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Trump’s ‘Superstar’ Appellate Judges Have Voted 133 to 12 in His Favor
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/us/politics/trumps-appeals-court-judges.html?unlocked_article_code=1.DlA.9tTv.5u-tBPnlQZZk&smid=url-share
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Peter Baker
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The higher the court, the likelier Trump was to win rulings in 2025: District courts: 25% Appeals courts: 51% Supreme Court: 88%
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Noah Rosenblum
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I had an anecdotal sense that Trump’s appellate court nominees were backing him up, but I didn’t realize it was so extreme.
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Marin K. Levy
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Big article by
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Trump’s ‘Superstar’ Appellate Judges Have Voted 133 to 12 in His Favor
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/us/politics/trumps-appeals-court-judges.html?unlocked_article_code=1.DlA.P2nc.2FxTd84OvTgH&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Peter Baker
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Trump's appellate judges have formed a nearly united phalanx to defend his agenda from legal challenges. How often they ruled for him in 2025: Trump appointees: 92% Other Republican appointees: 68% Democratic appointees: 27%
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Emma Schartz
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...
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Trump’s ‘Superstar’ Appellate Judges Have Voted 133 to 12 in His Favor
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/us/politics/trumps-appeals-court-judges.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Carol Rosenberg
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Latest: We’ve updated our tracker with more dead from the Dec. 30 boat strikes in the Eastern Pacific. The U.S. military has acknowledged that 8 people were seen jumping overboard during the attack, and are presumed dead following an unsuccessful Coast Guard search.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Tracking U.S. Military Killings in Boat Attacks
In four months, the Trump administration has killed scores of people it accused of smuggling drugs aboard boats. Here are the acknowledged strikes so far.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/10/29/us/us-caribbean-pacific-boat-strikes.html
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Hari Kunzru
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Ten years since David Bowie died, and the algo has served up the tribute I wrote at the time (headline very much not mine) mostly about 12/13 year old me buying a reissue of Ziggy Stardust ...
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For those of us whose identity is slippery, David Bowie was a secular saint | Hari Kunzru
Music was an escape from daily life, the racist bullies and nameless sexual yearning – but Bowie gave me the permission to be the person I needed to be
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/12/david-bowie-was-a-secular-saint-hari-kunzru
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my X feed has been completely taken over by Stoic Dude Life Tips
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say what you will about the Internet, but there are some very interesting piano-based covers of My Bloody Valentine's "Only Shallow" out there
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Marin K. Levy
7 days ago
With all that is going on in the world, it might be easy to overlook that the D.C. Circuit appears to have changed its Special Panel (aka Motions Panel) so that it's no longer in place for a month. I think this change is both really important and really good. (A quick courts 🧵 . . . )
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Christiaan Triebert
14 days ago
A scorched boat washed ashore on a remote beach in Colombia. Then mangled bodies. And then empty packets, a few with marijuana traces. We matched the physical and digital evidence to a U.S. airstrike — and found a fishing community terrified to go to sea.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/w...
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Grim Evidence of Trump’s Airstrikes Washes Ashore on a Colombian Peninsula
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/world/americas/trump-boat-strikes-gulf-of-venezuela-wreckage.html?unlocked_article_code=1.AVA.1IKj.Zs7We_PwLjpT
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Yonette Joseph
22 days ago
Some got pardons. Some got jobs. Some got access. They all benefited.
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Hundreds of Big Post-Election Donors Have Benefited From Trump’s Return to Office (Gift Article)
Well into his second term, the president and his allies have continued aggressively raising money. Many donors have interests before his administration, The Times found.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/22/us/politics/trump-donors-fundraising-benefits.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-k8.DXlP.eREUKonYKkXE&smid=url-share
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Rolling Stone
26 days ago
Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time. Read
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I have nothing but nice things to say about this "Invasion of the Cow Snatchers" game that involves magnets, plastic discs, walls, and a grid
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Awestruck by the performances of Chris Elliott and Joe Pesci in “Home Alone”
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Ken Vogel
30 days ago
Under Trump, the SEC has eased up on more than 60% of the crypto cases that were ongoing when he took office in January. Many of the firms that benefited from the leniency had financial ties to the Trump family. The SEC is no longer pursuing any cases against crypto firms with Trump ties.
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The S.E.C. Was Tough on Crypto. It Pulled Back After Trump Returned to Office.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/us/politics/sec-crypto-firms-trump-investigation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.8k8.15W9.Zt_t5Cp1keDa&smid=url-share
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jamelle
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the people of this great republic yearn for locomotive transport
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NEW: Judge Emil Bove Faces Ethics Complaint for Attending Trump Rally 🎁
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
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Judge Emil Bove Faces Ethics Complaint for Attending Trump Rally
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/us/politics/emil-bove-trump-rally.html?unlocked_article_code=1.7k8.wYah.JDOK0oOouRtB&smid=url-share
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Sonja Drimmer
about 1 month ago
And yet…not all writing endures. In this painting from c1490, we see a man taking down notes on a wax tablet. You can see the metal stylus he uses has a “rake” at one end for erasing once he needs to re-use the wax.
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Microwaving the frog is faster than boiling the frog, but the subsequent backlash may interfere with scaling up
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.
about 1 month ago
One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.
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How the war on terror and the war on drugs merged in the Caribbean, during the Obama presidency --
www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
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A Mission Gone Wrong
Why are we still fighting the drug war?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/01/06/a-mission-gone-wrong
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Yonette Joseph
about 1 month ago
David Sacks, Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House, Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends 🎁
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...
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Bodega Cats
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Some useful thoughts here ...
www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/b...
"To say that someone has “lied,” an active verb, or has told a “lie,” a more passive, distancing noun, is to say that the person intended to deceive."
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ICYMI -- We looked at the Trump admin's Supreme Court filing arguing for the legality of deploying the National Guard to Chicago. Turns out it has a bunch of factual errors... w/ Devon Lum, Christoph Koettl, Ainara Tiefenthäler 🎁
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
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Times Analysis Finds Errors in Trump’s Supreme Court Filing That Calls for National Guard in Chicago
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/us/trump-supreme-court-national-guard-chicago-errors.html?unlocked_article_code=1.308.n8CY.c0U1-AqypG86&smid=url-share
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Eric Lipton NYT
about 2 months ago
Tremendous and important reporting by NYT Visual Investigations team shows that Trump administration made false or misleading statements to US Supreme Court as it attempted to federal justify intervention in Chicago. Accountability matters. (Free link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
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Times Analysis Finds Errors in Trump’s Supreme Court Filing That Calls for National Guard in Chicago
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/us/trump-supreme-court-national-guard-chicago-errors.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4E8.z9YR.HFPAM5w8Gbmy&smid=url-share
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Yonette Joseph
about 2 months ago
So this thing was full of errors. The Trump administration claimed the police were slow to protect federal agents on Oct. 4, but videos and audio show its rationale conflates hours of events involving a shooting, a protest, a car crash and a police radio call. 🎁
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
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Times Analysis Finds Errors in Trump’s Supreme Court Filing That Calls for National Guard in Chicago
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/us/trump-supreme-court-national-guard-chicago-errors.html?unlocked_article_code=1.308.jNyG.FGCIUcn5LXKU&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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The New York Times
about 2 months ago
A Trump administration request to the Supreme Court to deploy troops in Chicago contains factual errors, mischaracterizing the responsiveness of local police and the actions of protesters, our Visual Investigations team found.
nyti.ms/43T7qfn
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Times Analysis Finds Errors in Trump’s Supreme Court Filing That Calls for National Guard in Chicago
The Trump administration has claimed the police were slow to protect federal agents on Oct. 4, but videos and audio show that their rationale conflates hours of events involving a shooting, a protest, a car crash and a police radio call.
https://nyti.ms/43T7qfn
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Steve Jones
about 2 months ago
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NEW: The Federalist Society Is Torn Between Its Legal Philosophy and Trump’s Demands 🎁 Read to the end for Leonard Leo's take on Trump, and revelations about a bespoke judicial meme...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/u...
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The Federalist Society Is Torn Between Its Legal Philosophy and Trump’s Demands
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/us/trump-federalist-society.html?unlocked_article_code=1.3E8.33Ep.GdwbfnScRNpt&smid=url-share
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Quinta Jurecic
about 2 months ago
fwiw, when the district court judge in this same case blocked trump from deploying the guard in chicago, she based her reasoning in part on several instances in which a grand jury declined to indict protestors whom ice/cbp claimed attacked them
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Lawrence Hurley
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From the Trump administration's filing at the Supreme Court:
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The Trump admin's case to the Supreme Court that the situation in Chicago justifies a National Guard deployment rests partly on the actions of two motorists. Now, prosecutors have moved to dropped charges against them. Julie Bosman reports...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
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Officials Move to Drop Case Against Drivers in Chicago Immigration Clash
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/us/charges-drivers-chicago-immigration-clash.html?unlocked_article_code=1.2k8.q70I.4lPQhmcPYHXu&smid=url-share
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Eliot Higgins
about 2 months ago
Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
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Anil Kalhan
about 2 months ago
"I got a call from the general counsel at the F.B.I. about changing exceptions to the gift rules because his boss, Kash Patel, felt like he should be able to accept more expensive gifts. I reminded him that his client was not Mr. Patel, but the United States."
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60 Attorneys on the Year of Chaos Inside Trump’s Justice Department
Sixty former staffers describe an environment of suspicion and intimidation within the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/11/16/magazine/trump-justice-department-staff-attorneys.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Didn’t realize that moral bankruptcy can also be “restructured”
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Semi-coherent, typo-filled emails could be a symptom of poor literacy. But in many cases, they are a flex by someone who wants to display how busy and important they are.
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Old enough to remember when folks were looking at old emails and speculating about what "pizza" might be code for
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Yonette Joseph
2 months ago
CNN: In a major break, Britain has stopped sharing some intelligence about suspected drug trafficking with the US over America's deadly boat strikes in the Caribbean. The UK does not want to be complicit in the military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal.
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Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/politics/uk-suspends-caribbean-intelligence-sharing-us
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Yonette Joseph
2 months ago
Mark Wolf, a federal judge, said he had stepped down and warned of an “existential threat to democracy” by President Trump, whom he accused of “using the law for partisan purposes, targeting his adversaries”🎁
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/u...
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Federal Judge, Warning of ‘Existential Threat’ to Democracy, Resigns
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/us/politics/mark-wolf-federal-judge-resigns.html?unlocked_article_code=1.0E8.zm6s.LoEwS2D_35Fe&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Federal Judge, Warning of ‘Existential Threat’ to Democracy, Resigns Free gift link >>
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/u...
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Federal Judge, Warning of ‘Existential Threat’ to Democracy, Resigns
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/us/politics/mark-wolf-federal-judge-resigns.html?unlocked_article_code=1.z08.1wni.-KRdLjHNfCaB&smid=url-share
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Peter Baker
2 months ago
Our reporters interviewed 40 of the men the Trump administration sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador: They described being beaten, sexually assaulted by guards and driven to the brink of suicide.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
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‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/world/americas/el-salvador-prison-migrants.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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