Shutdown update: DOJ requests to delay/extend deadlines in court fights over Trump administration policies and actions have been hitting the docket all day -- a few are opposed, incl. in Kilmer Abrego Garcia's civil suit fighting deportation www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

We're asking the 11th Circuit to compel Judge Aileen Cannon to rule on a motion @knightcolumbia.org filed over 6 months ago seeking the release of Special Counsel Jack Smith's report about Trump’s mishandling of classified information at Mar-a-Lago. knightcolumbia.org/documents/uj...

Mood

Fed's Lisa Cook seems to have picked up a new superstar conservative lawyer since her case got to the Supreme Court:

Jack Smith breaks his silence: “Political opponents, critics, perceived enemies are targeted for investigation or arrest to silence them, and the prosecutors instead of investigating…cases, they're left to figure out a basis for charges after the fact.”

Former special counsel Jack Smith warns that rule of law is 'under attack' www.npr.org/2025/09/25/n...

JUST IN: Judge Reyes has *denied* the legal effort by fired inspectors general to reclaim their jobs. Trump may have broken the law by firing them, she says, but she has no authority to reinstate them — and Trump could remove them again in 30 days anyway. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This sign wasn’t on my bingo card.

Cover the Justice Department, come home, get bitten by the puppy. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Justice Department unease grows as Trump's threats get more blunt www.npr.org/2025/09/22/n...

J. Kagan dissent: "Our emergency docket should never be used, as it has been this year, to permit what our own precedent bars.Still more, it should not be used,as it also has been,to transfer government authority from Congress to the President, and thus to reshape the Nation’s separation of powers."

there is a point here i want to amplify. the free speech defenders of the mainstream seem to have no awareness that actual free speech is often more fractious and destabilizing than civil and respectful. a society where speech is genuinely free isn’t the deferential space they want it to be.

Cute alert

NEW: "I loved him." Bob Woodward remembers Robert Redford www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/b...

BREAKING: Two of the terrorism-related counts charged against Luigi Mangione are "legally insufficient," but the others stand, a Manhattan judge rules. Judge Carro announced his ruling at the start of the hearing. Full ruling www.nycourts.gov/legacypdfs/p...

This week has been a year. Here’s Archie in full puppy mode.

""These are people who are at the top of their field," Dehghani-Tafti said. "These are people who care about public service. Our whole job as prosecutors is to do justice and to do it without fear or favor.."

DOJ’s self-inflicted losses are the Arlington DA’s office’s gains. Heck yes. On the other hand, biglaw being too scared to hire people fired by Trump’s DOJ is shameful.

These fired DOJ lawyers are finding new ways to make a difference www.npr.org/2025/09/12/n...

If the federal show of force in Washington has had a deterrent effect on crime, it appears to have deterred entirely normal aspects of city life, too. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/u...

Taken last night in New York. Let’s all work on trying to put more light into the world without having to do it through memorials.

24 years today.

Bloomberg News has obtained a cache of more than 18,000 emails from Jeffrey Epstein’s personal email account, and many messages show Epstein and Ghislane Maxwell “were closer, in many respects, than either publicly admitted.”

"His decision to do so degraded the country's national security by firing three of the FBI's most experienced operational leaders, each of them experts in preventing terrorism and reducing violent crime," the lawsuit said." www.npr.org/2025/09/10/g... @carriejohnson.bsky.social @npr.org

To me this special place is a taste of my grandfather’s home - Russ & Daughters in NYC celebrates '100 years of appetizing' and family one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5382...

As Trump cracks down on D.C. crime, grand juries emerge as a check on overreach one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5526...

The NFL is so back

What life is like at the prison where Ghislaine Maxwell is held www.npr.org/2025/09/03/n...

NEW: House Democrats, with help from more than half a dozen Republicans, killed a motion to censure Rep. LaMonica McIver for clash with ICE officers

NEW: Trump says he will ask the US Supreme Court to reverse a $5 million sexual abuse and defamation judgment against him in New York writer E. Jean Carroll’s civil lawsuit, per newly docketed court filing www.bloomberg.com/news/article... Doc: assets.bwbx.io/documents/us...

Interesting: Gregg Pemberton, the head of the D.C. Police Union, said today he thinks the federal surge will “wind down” next week, 30 days from when Trump declared the emergency in D.C. But: federal agents will still be around, though the presence may be more muted.

Love the internet so much sometimes.

Brooklyn Bridge gets all the press. But the views from the Manhattan Bridge are gorgeous this week, too. #NYC 💕 @newyorkcitykopp.bsky.social

JUST IN: Judge Carl Nichols, Trump appointee, draws criminal case against DOJ lawyer Sean Dunn, accused of throwing Subway sandwich at officer amid Trump DC surge. Grand jury wouldn't indict so it's a misdemeanor. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

'The most illegal search': Judges push back against D.C. criminal charges www.npr.org/2025/08/26/g...

After attempting to mount a neighborhood Rottweiler, this 10 lb. pup is now biting my toes. No peace with puppy.

Rare moment of peace where I can find all the bones the puppy has hidden around the house

Area puppy having a feral night

UPDATE: Kilmar Abrego Garcia's attorneys have filed a motion to dismiss his criminal case in Tennessee for vindictive prosecution. They argue the prosecution is an "effort to punish him for having the audacity to fight back." Link: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

My own version of the show Quarterback tonight

Yes in fact I am ready for some football 🏈

Firings and forced resignations at FBI worry veterans of the agency one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5500...

When’s dinner?

When I joined NPR almost 30 yrs ago as a complete outsider with no qualifications other than being a lifelong fan, nobody welcomed me more avidly and kindly than Susan. She loved what we were trying to do, and helped us do it. www.npr.org/sections/npr...

This morning on @npr.org , Judge Phillip Pro of Keep Our Republic’s Article III Coalition joined @carriejohnson.bsky.social to discuss today’s hearing on the lawsuit on all Maryland district judges. A rare legal moment. A vital judicial voice. www.npr.org/2025/08/13/n...

A test of judicial independence underway in Baltimore today - DOJ faces off against entire Maryland federal bench on Wednesday one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5495...

Worst incident in a while.

I didn’t say it; Wonder Woman said it.