The Vice President of the United States has somehow reached the conclusion that this video is exculpatory.

i just watched this video and the fact that they believe this to be exculpatory is genuinely insane

JD Vance has amplified this video (somehow as evidence that the murder was justified), so it appears to be real.

I have not independently verified this footage, but it appears to be authentic. Immediately after Renee Good is shot and killed, someone off camera (presumably the ICE officer who shot her) calls her a “fucking bitch.” bsky.app/profile/anna...

Video clip of Renee Good's last words before she was murdered by Jonathan Ross who then called her a fucking bitch & left the scene of the crime.

Alpha News claims that it has obtained the cellphone video recorded by the ICE officer who shot and killed Renee Good. (Warning: Disturbing.)

Such a helpful podcast from the great @lawfaremedia.org team — @annabower.bsky.social, @ericcolumbus.bsky.social, and @michael-feinberg.bsky.social — on the Minneapolis shooting and the legal issues surrounding state prosecutions of federal officers.

Your regular reminder that the Supreme Court’s opinion giving presidents criminal immunity is not a serious decision for a serious democracy. @brennancenter.org www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

Attention Bluesky elders: The artist behind the ANIMORPHS covers is here!

After reading a summary of the opinion, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said to the courtroom, which contained SG John Sauer and his deputies: "Seeing who's here, it's not the case you thought." We still don't know when #SCOTUS will release its tariffs decision.

I thought Trump would never get the Nobel Peace Prize. He's about to prove me wrong!

JD Vance stop giving me reasons to make this joke challenge bsky.app/profile/anna...

Guess I have to share this piece by @sranderson.bsky.social again, for the millionth time www.lawfaremedia.org/article/why-...

Yale Law School never beating the “they don’t teach law at Yale” allegations

This is not the law.

NEWS: Judge Lorna Schofield has disqualified John Sarcone, the acting US Attorney for the Northern District of New York, and quashes subpoenas issued to the office of New York Attorney General Letitia James. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.

The New York Times states it plainly in display type: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis

NEW: NEW: From extraterritorial arrest to head-of-state immunity, the case against Nicolás Maduro puts long-standing legal doctrines to the test. Our @lawfaremedia.org initial analysis of what comes next is out now: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/insi...

NEW: NEW: From extraterritorial arrest to head-of-state immunity, the case against Nicolás Maduro puts long-standing legal doctrines to the test. Our @lawfaremedia.org initial analysis of what comes next is out now: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/insi...

Might be a good time to re-up this @lawfaremedia.org piece by @bgodar.bsky.social www.lawfaremedia.org/article/are-...

NEWS: Trump seeks $6.2 million dollars in attorneys fees and costs following dismissal of his criminal charges in Georgia. Under a Georgia law passed last year, the funds would be paid by the Fulton County district attorney’s office.

After posting on the White House website just yesterday that Ashli Babbit was "murdered in cold blood," the administration states that the victim of the ICE shooting in Minnesota was justifiably killed as a "domestic terrorist."

By the way, this judge was appointed to the bench by Donald Trump.

Judge to Lindsey Halligan: Explain yourself. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“Zero law enforcement officers lost their lives.”

This really is just so sickening. www.whitehouse.gov/j6/

“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.” www.whitehouse.gov/j6/

Read this today ⬇️ www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

How many DEA agents does it take to arraign an abducted Venezuelan dictator (and his wife)? My Lawfare colleague @katherinepomps.bsky.social braved the weather and The Line to find out. Read the details in her dispatch from Maduro’s arraignment, out now: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/me-c...

Federal law required the Jan. 6 plaque to be hung on Capitol grounds by March 2023. It still has not been put up.

Neil McCabe—former director of external affairs for the D.C. U.S. Attorney’s Office and now a senior adviser to DOJ’s Ed Martin—asks, “Why is it a problem?”

The Justice Manual states that DOJ personnel should refrain from expressing “Any opinion as to the defendant's guilt, or the possibility of a plea of guilty to the offense charged, or the possibility of a plea to a lesser offense.” bsky.app/profile/anna...

Hours before Maduro’s first court appearance on federal criminal charges, a senior Justice Department official amplified a post speculating that the Venezuelan dictator would try to plead to lesser charges by proffering “evidence” that the 2020 U.S. election was stolen.

I introduced myself to a fellow journalist at a holiday party last month and he was like “oh yeah, you’re the one who’s always tweeting at Ed Martin and talking about the administrator of DOGE.” My reputation precedes me.

I predict that 2026 will be a big year for the “Hey Ed!” series.

Dogs eating spaghetti is far and away the best use of slo-mo phone cameras

BREAKING: An American military operation in Venezuela killed 32 Cuban officers over the weekend, the Cuban government said in the first official acknowledgement of the deaths.

anyway, lots of toxicity on the timeline today but a hound trying (and failing) to eat noodles in slow motion in mid air is absolutely my jam in terms of a palate cleanse

Lucy’s New Year’s resolution: eat more spaghetti

beagle eating spaghetti vol. 5

On X, a senior U.S. Justice Department official is promoting a post that praises colonization as “one of the greatest things that ever happened to the backwards parts of the world.”👇

This just in: Nicolas Maduro is set to appear at noon tomorrow before Judge Hellerstein in Manhattan fed.

Coming up at 3 pm ET👇⬇️

Here's the newly released superseding indictment against Maduro and his wife: www.justice.gov/opa/media/14...

AG Pam Bondi says Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, have been indicted in SDNY. Maduro was previously indicted in 2020 on federal charges including narco-terrorism conspiracy and cocaine importation conspiracy. Unclear what Flores is charged with. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

As for why the self-defense arguments are themselves problematic, see these earlier pieces: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/did-... www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

Informative thread from my @lawfaremedia.org colleague @sranderson.bsky.social, who is a great follow re: international and domestic law on the use of force. Give him a follow!