JUST IN: Judge Lamberth has *blocked* a new wave of terminations at Voice of America, offering harsh words for Kari Lake and saying the Trump administration’s conduct in his case would support civil contempt proceedings, if only the plaintiffs had asked. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Since last fall’s election win, Trump has raked in more than $80 million in settlements stemming from lawsuits he has brought against Big Tech and media companies. YouTube is the latest. Trump's lawyer says the companies wouldn't have settled if he wasn't president. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Incredible. They once again wrote a brief that simply pretends that Lynch v. Clarke, the first major case on birthright citizenship, just simply does not exist. It gets not a single mention or acknowledgment.

JUST IN: Google pays $24.5 million to settle lawsuit Trump filed in 2021 over YouTube ban post #Jan6. $22M of that will go to build the new White House ballroom Trump wants to construct. It was 1 of 3 similar suits legal experts found dubious. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

back in the days of the first travel ban in Feb 2017, the NY Daily News ran a story that Stephen Miller had called up the SDNY or EDNY US Attorney's office and instructed the AUSAs how they should argue the case. That was a preview of the second Trump administration

JUST IN: Trump admin files Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act suit v. socialist/pro-Palestinian groups over alleged violent targeting of Jewish worshippers in NJ. Trump DOJ pledged to curtail use re clinics. Now invokes religious provision. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Today in "DOJ gets dinged by a federal court," the DC Circuit just denied DOJ's unopposed motion to reschedule the Nov. 24 oral argument in the AP access case b/c DOJ ignored the DC Circuit rules, under which DOJ should have informed the court about availability issues in July or early August.

that's so weird, john roberts assured me the immunity decision meant this would not happen??

According to Oregon, Trump got the idea that Portland is on fire because Fox News illustrated a September 5 story on protests of ICE with video from the George Floyd riots in 2020. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

EXCLUSIVE: The number of people charged with breaking federal drug laws dropped to the lowest level in decades this year after the Trump administration ordered enforcement agencies to focus on deporting immigrants, a @reuters.com review of court dockets found. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

separate from everything, the idea that 2020 was a squeaker but 2024 represents a historical mandate will simply be the death of me

Most people who write about politics, right or left, have internalized the concept of the Trump supporter as the authentic american Volk and so many of their conclusions proceed from that bsky.app/profile/qjur...

Not a great sign that it is now easy to lose track of where trump is sending his federal goons and also the military. You would be forgiven for forgetting that days before he ordered them to Portland, he declared a different invasion of Memphis

New on MSNBC: According to the court transcript, only 14 of the 23 grand jurors voted in favor of indicting James Comey on the two counts that went forward.

It’s hard to convey the insanity of a thirty-something White House staffer getting an interim US Attorney appointment and marching into the grand jury room alone four days later to indict the former Deputy Attorney General and Director of the FBI

The way the media spins stories like this is “look how the dogged cops cleared this terrible quadruple-murder 34 years later” and not “oh by the way they totally accused and convicted the wrong guys before, oops lol” www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

"U.S. Magistrate Judge Lindsey Vaala expressed confusion and surprise at some points during the seven-minute court session when a federal grand jury impaneled in Alexandria, Virginia, returned the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey Thursday night."

Just a reminder that the Solicitor General *promised* the Supreme Court during the CASA argument in May that he’d bring the birthright citizenship cases back up on the merits. For as much as the government has been carefully picking the cases it has brought to #SCOTUS, it didn’t have a choice here.

That doesn’t necessarily mean the Court is going to strike down the policy (although my best bet is that it will). But it *does* mean that folks should take a beat before reading this as a sign that DOJ thinks it can win. That explains a lot of its *other* behavior; these petitions are … different.

“JUSTICE HAS BEEN SERVED!” Trump posted on Truth Social after news of Comey's indictment broke. But as with George W. Bush’s famous announcement of Mission Accomplished, this declaration of victory may turn out to be premature.

Trump complains that Comey is a "dirty cop" who was basically out to get him. But so far, he has fired Comey for violating DOJ policies by criticizing Hillary Clinton and had him indicted for allegedly authorizing the leak, before the 2016 election, of another investigation into Clinton.

This is the 20th time the Supreme Court has granted an emergency request made by the Trump administration since January. That's TWENTIETH.

Yet another US Attorney fired — this time in California, for… telling people to abide by a court order. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to withhold $4 billion in foreign aid funds b/c of Trump’s “pocket rescission” argument and b/c enforcing the injunction would affect foreign affairs. The Democratic appointees dissent. More to come at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com

The MAGA monocultural revolution is so thorough that Hegseth made it a priority to honor soldiers who carried out war crimes in 1890.

Yesterday, I was leaning toward the idea that the indictment is about the McCabe stuff. Now I’m leaning more toward it being about the Richman stuff. Sigh. I need a bill of particulars.

One of the things we’ll talk about is the extremely unusual case of vindictive prosecution this raises. Trump has made quite a record.

There are actually only 6-7 people in the entire world

So James Comey has been indicted for testifying, in essence, that he didn't authorize Andrew McCabe to be an anonymous media source about the Hillary Clinton email investigation—which McCabe disputes. But a DOJ IG report examined all the circumstantial evidence and concluded McCabe was lying.

In the last 6 hours, Trump has imposed: - A 100% tariff on medicine unless its producer starts building a new U.S. factory in the next 5 days - A 50% tariff on kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanities - A 30% tariff on upholstered furniture - A 25% tariff on “Heavy (Big!) Trucks”

If they had a right-wing, “tough-on-crime” coded mayor there would be endless national profiles about him and how he finally brought sanity back to Chicago.

BREAKING: On a 2-1 vote, the DC Circuit denies the Trump administration a stay pending appeal in a case over Trump's effort to break federal unions. This case involves Defense Dep't teachers (DOD Education Activity). Order/opinions: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEWS: This litigation effort happened in six states today — California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania — per a release from DOJ.

ABC News says James Comey has been indicted in a transparently political case, shortly after other prosecutors who couldn’t justify a charge against him were fired by President Trump. abcnews.go.com/US/former-fb...

Chief Justice John Roberts has teamed up with President Donald Trump to hold nearly $5 billion in foreign aid funding hostage. 5 days, 10 hours, and 20 minutes until the funding at issue expires.

lindsey halligan reportedly having second thoughts www.cnn.com/2025/09/25/p...

What I don't understand about this latest Republican threat is that, based on their previous statements, they could withhold spending approved by Congress anyway, so for Democrats the outcome could be similar whether they do a deal or not. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

JUST IN: A new class action lawsuit challenges ICE's warrantless immigration arrests in Washington, D.C., which they say are occuring without probable cause and based largely on perceived ethnicity. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Noem simultaneously is demanding that politicians tone down their rhetoric about ICE while also saying that anyone who believes in due process is a supporter of terrorism.

Update. Ed Martin withdraws his letter to the Sandy Hook FBI witness per his lawyer.

Tick, tock. Lindsey Halligan, the newly-installed prosecutor in EDVA, has less than a week to secure an indictment against James Comey before a key statute of limitations runs out. Ben Wittes and I examine her charging options. Spoiler alert: they all suck. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

JUST IN: Judge declines to give jobs back to 8 inspectors general Trump fired without giving cause or explanation required by law. Judge Ana Reyes (Biden) says they might be entitled to back pay but puts case on hold til #SCOTUS rules on FTC firing. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered the University of South Dakota to reinstate a professor who posted criticism of Charlie Kirk on his Facebook page the day of the shooting, finding the action likely violated the First Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

that they’re rushing to meet the statute of limitations and have already pushed out a prosecutor who didn’t think they had a case tells me there’s an enormous chance they eat shit in hugely embarrassing fashion if they actually bring this to trial

In other news, Chief Justice Roberts's "administrative" stay from 9/9 — allowing the Trump admin hold off spending nearly $5 billion in foreign aid that Congress said is to be spent by 9/30 — remains in effect tonight, one week and one hour from the spending deadline. www.lawdork.com/i/173230405/...

There is no bottom: abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics...

Attorney General Pam Bondi’s chief of staff, Chad Mizelle, is leaving the Justice Department, the attorney general and her deputy confirmed in statements provided to CNN.

Schrödinger's Shooter exists as both a deranged leftist motivated by dangerous rhetoric AND as a misunderstood troubled youth who needed Jesus until the waveform collapses

UPDATE: John Bolton's lawyer, Abbe Lowell, says many of the documents the FBI seized from Bolton's DC office last month were 2 decades old and had been declassified. 'Nothing inappropriate' kept by Bolton, Lowell says www.politico.com/news/2025/09...