"Incensed" was putting it mildly. I'm pretty sure @joshgerstein.bsky.social probably had to turn his phone volume down at one point.

People need to pay close attention to this OLC opinion on the Presidential Records Act. As @joshgerstein.bsky.social points out, nothing less than our own history is at stake. www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

NEW: Trump's bid to escape scrutiny of his White House secrets threatens to bring down the system that governed access to records of every president since Reagan. And its demise could come quickly www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

JUST IN: Boasberg refuses bid to force release of more Epstein files before Bondi's scheduled April 14 House deposition. Doc: ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

CATCHING UP: 9th Circuit Trump appointee Mark Bennett joins Clinton appointee Ronald Gould and Obama pick Jacqueline Nguyen in upholding but narrowing injunction barring use of force against journalists covering anti-ICE protests. Doc: cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...

NEW: Pam Bondi did almost everything Donald Trump asked. It wasn’t enough. www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

UNDERPLAYED: Bondi hasn't struck out completely. Justice Department still has a major criminal case going against someone high on Trump's enemies list: John Bolton. McIver, too, but I don't think she has every been a top Trump target www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

JUST IN: 2nd Circuit remands long-running @radar_online #FOIA suit for Epstein files, back to District Court. So Judge Gardephe in SDNY will have to decide whether DOJ's Epstein files releases included everything releaseable under #FOIA. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/27...

BREAKING: Trump fires Pam Bondi as attorney general, after she acquiesced in demands to target his enemies but found her prosecutive efforts largely stymied by courts. Trump also saw her fumbling and ultimately fueling Epstein files flap. w/ @kyledcheney.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

Here's the opinion: www.justice.gov/olc/media/14...

NEW: Big defeat on tariffs and tough arguments on birthright citizenship signal that Trump's grip on the Supreme Court may be slipping www.politico.com/news/2026/04... #SCOTUS

Trump on Somali-Americans in Minnesota: "They're low IQ. I can generalize. They're low IQ people. They're bad people." (Note that moments later he claims Indianapolis is in Minnesota)

Trump suggests he will attend birthright citizenship arguments at Supreme Court

Judge deals Trump setback in civil suits over Capitol riot

I count 47 opinions Tuesday from DC District Court. Kind of insane. Never seen anything like it. Due to combination of 2025 litigation surge against Trump admin & fed courts 3/31 bookkeeping deadline to report stale motions ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/Opin...

JUST IN: Judge Timothy Kelly declines Trump admin's bid to dismiss suit claiming HHS shuttering of #FOIA office broke law by halting requests. But he doesnt resolves case and wants updated record. Doc: ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

JUST IN: Major setback for Trump in long-running civil suits over #Jan6 as judge rules POTUS' Ellipse speech was political, so lacks immunity for official acts. Ruling could lead to a trial but appeal could lead to year-plus more delay. w/@kyledcheney www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Trump says he plans to attend #SCOTUS arguments Wednesday on birthright citizenship, then adds, "I think so." Last year, he toyed publicly with going on day tariffs case was argued, but in the end didn't. And he's still steamed over tariffs ruling www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

NEW: #SCOTUS, voting 8-1, rejects Colorado's conversion therapy ban as impermissible under First Amendment. Justices Kagan & Sotomayor join the court's conservatives and suggest ruling protects rights of counselors in red states. Jackson dissents alone. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

JUST IN: FBI agents who were fired for working on Trump election-interference case file class-action lawsuit. It cites DAG Todd Blanche's remark at CPAC last week that everyone who worked on cases targeting Trump has been dismissed. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEW: Meet the driving force behind Trump's birthright citizenship policy that #SCOTUS will take up tomorrow. He also spoke at the DC Jan. 6 rally, devised the legal scheme Pence rejected that day, & has been battling to rescue his legal career ever since www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

'IS THIS A CATCH-22? IS THIS KAFKA?': Judge stews over Pentagon press changes that NY Times says defy a court order to restore access for journalists www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Regime change achieved, Trump says

JUST IN: Trump campaign committee wins suit over alleged unwanted text messages. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

JUST IN: #SCOTUS signals opinion(s) expected next Tuesday, 3/31

JUST IN: Alleged Epstein victim files class action lawsuit against DOJ & Google over online posting/indexing of information about victims in Epstein files. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

It appears the Government also fabricated non-existent quotations in its brief. There should be actual, individual consequences for lying to judges. I'm not sure why Judge Brasel does not name the attorney, but this is the DOJ attorney who signed the brief in question is Andrew C. Abrams.

A RARITY: Plaintiffs who obtained district court injunction barring use of tear gas against anti-ICE protests in Portland, OR make unusual bid for en banc review of 9th Circuit panel's administrative stay temporarily lifting that injunction. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/27...

Ex-federal prosecutors in Chicago taking on Trump's 'troubling' DOJ: ‘We feel compelled to speak and act' NEW from @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/donald-trump...

BREAKING: Judge lifts Trump administration ban on federal use of Anthropic. Judge Rita Lin (Biden/CAND) says it appears to be 1st Amendment retaliation. Stays her ruling for 7 days to allow DOJ to seek relief from higher court. via @MuiChristine www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

JUST IN: Citing "grave" violations of right to legal counsel, Judge Nancy Brasel (Trump/MN) converts TRO to preliminary injunction, no transfers of immigration detainees out of state for 72 hours plus chance to call lawyer within an hour of arrest. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

BREAKING: Judge shaves a year off Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes' prison sentence. Citing new sentencing guidelines, Judge Edward Davila (Obama CAND) cuts Holmes' term to 10 years 3 months from 11 years 3 months. She also asked Trump to commute. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/27...

New: Judge William Young in Boston is demanding the Trump administration provide him information on an "unwritten agreement" it says it has with Mexico that has allowed it to deport 6,000 Cubans to Mexico. Young wants to know its details and if it is a "secret." www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

BENCHSLAPPED: Judge John Steele (Clinton/FLMD) dismisses Sen. Rick Scott's lawsuit v. Booz Allen over leaking of his tax return. Steele says complaint is 'shotgun pleading' & 'improper.' Can be refiled within 7 days. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/27...

JUST IN: For 5th time, #SCOTUS pulls Trump's appeal of E. Jean Carroll $5 million verdict from justices closed-door conference. Was set for discussiontomorrow. Dkt: www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?... Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

JUST IN: Judge Jane Boyle (GWBush/TXND) dismisses X/Twitter antitrust lawsuit against major US companies over advertiser boycott of the platform. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Earlier: www.politico.eu/article/go-f...

A MUSK ERA? 3rd opinion this week related to @elonmusk from Judge Tanya Chutkan (Obama/DC). 3 different cases. This one a WaPo #FOIA for Tesla submissions to NHTSA Doc: ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

For those who always ask me to boil it down: It's a setback for the Portland Chicken. (OK, sorry, that was a little schmaltzy.)

JUST IN: 9th Circuit panel splits, 2-1, pausing judges' injunctions limiting crowd control tactics & requiring agent IDs at anti-ICE protests in Oregon. Maj: Lee/Tung (Trump). Dissent: de Alba (Biden). Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/27...

JUST IN: At #SCOTUS, DOJ defends use of geofence search warrants, says individuals have no 4th Amendment privacy interest in location data "that are sufficiently short-term that they reveal little, if anything, about the patterns of his life." Doc: www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

JUST IN: Lawyers for WaPo & reporter Hannah Natanson urge Judge Trenga not to restore FBI & prosecutors direct access to devices seized from her as part of classified leaks investigation. Mag/ judge said he would do the sifting, but DOj objected. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/27...

JUST IN: Judge Boasberg (Obama/DC), who has clashed with Trump admin in litigation over deportations to CECOT, rejects NGOs challenge to admin's deal with El Salvador that facilitated those transfers. Doc: ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

JUST IN: Fugees' Pras Michel headed to prison for foreign-agent/campaign $ convictions as soon as April 30 after DC Circuit denies his bid for bail pending appeal....but, but, but...what about a pardon or commutation from Trump? Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/27...

There's somewhat of a split already, with the 7th Circuit having rejected the argument in Castanon-Nava (although more in dicta than a full holding).

NEW: The Trump administration is celebrating its second straight appeals court win on ICE's mass detention policy. But its impact — like the 5th Circuit's — may be limited if district judges rule for detainees on due process grounds. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

JUST IN: Judge Rossie Alston (Trump/EDVA) dismisses for 2nd time fmr Trump-Kennedy Center chief Richard Grenell's libel suit over ex-Pence aide Olivia Troye's claim that Grenell tried to get Pence to meet white supremacists in Germany. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/27...

JUST IN: Trump admin scores 2nd appeals court win in bid to deny bond hearings to most detained immigrants. 8th Circuit rules, 2-1, detention's mandatory for anyone who entered US illegally. Maj: Shepherd (GWBush), Grasz (Trump). Dissent: Erickson (Trump). www.documentcloud.org/documents/27...

Pulitzer-worthy...and, in this case, I mean that as a compliment!

NEW ORLEANS: ICE agents overlook the security area on the lower level (photo shared w/ me)

JUST IN: Judge Amy Berman Jackson (Obama/DC) draws new suit of Trump admin plan to remove 15th St bike lane near National Mall and replace with auto traffic. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...