Feds are ordered to turn over the files on Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis in January. The Minnesota Star Tribune A federal judge in Minnesota ordered the Trump administration to turn over Ross’ personnel file by May 1 in a separate case in which Ross’ use of force is being questioned. The information will not be made public immediately and focuses on a 2025 arrest during which Ross was allegedly injured. MPR News But federal officials are also required to turn over to a magistrate judge records of statements Ross made in the hour before and during his killing of Good. The Intercept

Stacking the deck. Over the past 14 months, Trump allies at the Justice Department purged more than 100 immigration judges and replaced them with prosecutors or military lawyers to expedite the pace of deportations. The New York Times Trump allies are vying for the job of running the Justice Department. Some are more craven in their attempts to get the president’s attention. Others are feuding with each other for primacy within the administration. Politico More: In an attempt to justify President Donald Trump’s pardons of anti-abortion protesters who blocked access to clinics, the Justice Department is preparing to release a report that suggests that Biden-era officials persecuted those protesters. MS Now

Immigration nation. Transportation Security Administration agents shared immigration information on travelers with ICE agents. More than 800 people were arrested based on that information. Reuters A federal judge in California issued a new warning about how habeas corpus challenges to ICE detentions are swamping federal courts. NBC Bay Area An attorney for a man shot by ICE agents in California this week disputed two key claims made by federal officials against his client, Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez. The Associated Press Former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s $70 million jet will now be used by Melania Trump and other Trump administration officials. The Washington Post

The NIMBY crusade continues against immigration detention facilities. Residents of Tremont, Pennsylvania, a Republican town in the central part of the state, aren’t happy with the Trump administration’s plans to house up to 7,500 in a repurposed warehouse two miles outside of town. “We don’t need that,” says a local merchant. “The community, the area, is not going to be able to absorb the costs.” The New York Times There is strong local opposition to an ICE warehouse in Salt Lake City. Utah News Dispatch More: An update on how local officials and anti-ICE activists opposed the Trump administration’s plans to convert warehouses into immigration detention facilities. The Associated Press

Erik Duran, a former New York City police officer, was sentenced on Thursday to at least three years in prison for killing a man during a botched police operation in 2023. Gothamist Duran threw a picnic cooler at Eric Duprey while Duprey was speeding away on a motorbike following an alleged drug transaction. Duran said he threw the cooler to protect himself and other officers. He was convicted in February and then fired by the NYPD. The New York Times

It took a village of lawyers, friends, family and other advocates to spare Charles “Sonny” Burton’s life in Alabama. He had already chosen his last meal before execution last month when Gov. Kay Ivey commuted his sentence to life without parole. The Guardian TMP Context: The mercy workers. The Marshall Project Burton’s daughter tells her story. The Marshall Project

A story of alleged Medicaid fraud in Kentucky. Addiction Recovery Care billed the state $1.7 billion between 2019 and 2024 and received $377 million in state Medicaid funding. Now, former staff say they were asked to submit falsified invoices. There is a pending settlement between state and federal officials and ARC amid allegations that conditions inside the facility posed a danger to patients and staff. ProPublica/Lexington Herald-Leader

Cash Russell, 9, was shot to death last October in Springfield, Illinois. “You’d think a child getting shot would get everyone’s attention,” says a resident who lives blocks from where the shooting occurred. But police and prosecutors have been largely silent since the child was killed. Few details have been released. A local task force, intended to combat gun violence and to strengthen bonds between police and the community, has been silent. The Trace

A Wyoming man who hit a wolf with his snowmobile and then took it into a bar before killing it was sentenced this week to 18 months of probation for his crimes. Cody Roberts was also ordered not to hunt or fish or drink or enter a bar while on probation. NBC News

The Trump administration wants to protect its own prosecutors from misconduct allegations. “By formalizing the longstanding practice that state bars suspend independent investigations until the DOJ’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) concludes its internal inquiries, the Justice Department is attempting to ensure that federal prosecutors are held to a lower ethical standard than all other members of the Bar.” Cato Institute

An addition to Instagram and YouTube: the meaning of the recent verdict against Meta and Google. “But there is a more general dread about human vulnerability to technology — a growing existential fear that people are losing the authorship and agency of their own lives to, particularly, artificial intelligence — that will be reflected in an avalanche of related negligent-design legal claims.” The New Yorker

A dubious interpretation of the Presidential Records Act by the Justice Department. An Office of Legal Counsel opinion, not binding on the courts, makes “sweeping conclusions about how this law is completely beyond the bounds of Congress’ power to act, and it can’t both be true that context matters and that Congress has no power to pass this law, full stop. I think there is reason to be deeply suspicious of what the OLC is doing here.” Slate

Three cheers for the Police Officer Standards and Training Commission. “Massachusetts has entered a new era in policing. No longer is discipline at the whim of an officer’s department.” The Boston Globe

A big fan of voter suppression in the Senate. Sen. Mike Lee, a Republican from Utah, has become an election conspiracy theorist. He’s now reportedly a candidate to become the next U.S. attorney general. The Bulwark

“I think a lot of people assume that the story ends when your loved one comes back. But that’s just the beginning of when the healing process starts.” Maria de Jesús Estrada Juárez was wrongfully deported to Mexico despite having protection under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. A federal judge ordered her returned to California, where she is now, struggling to recover from the ordeal. Mother Jones

Bad news for Mahmoud Khalil. The Board of Immigration Appeals on Thursday denied the former Columbia University graduate student and Palestinian activist’s attempt to dismiss the deportation case against him. Khalil was arrested last March and spent more than 100 days in an immigration detention facility before being released by order of a judge. Khalil is challenging the proceedings against him in federal court as well. The Associated Press

A wrongful death lawsuit goes to trial in California. The parents of a 14-year-old girl who was fatally shot by a LAPD officer in a department store in 2021 say the cop negligently used excessive force in pursuing an assault suspect. Police officials ruled years ago that the shot that killed Valentina Orellana-Peralta should never have been fired. The Associated Press

A new classified documents case. A federal grand jury has indicted a former Special Operations veteran for allegedly leaking classified information to a journalist. Courtney Williams exchanged about 180 text messages with a reporter between 2022 and 2025, many years after she left the U.S. Army. Courthouse News Service

What’s 90 days to a person serving 50 years? Louisiana legislators are moving toward enacting a law that would shorten by a maximum of 90 days the prison sentences of those who obtain associate’s degrees. Louisiana Illuminator