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Reopened for business, I hope?
What Is DOJ Really After in Raiding Hannah Natanson?
The leak investigation of Aurelio Perez-Lugones seems like a pretext to disrupt Hannah Natanson’s substantial reporting on the increasing authoritarianism of Donald Trump’s regime, particularly as facilitated by DOGE.
Pam Bondi’s Slop
The AI slop the White House released after a politicized investigation of a protest of an ICE goon’s Baptist Church perfectly embodies the bullshit that Trump’s DOJ churns out instead of rule of law.
DOJ Continues to Let DHS Pick and Choose Screen Shots Pertaining to Their Assaults
Because DHS allows its goons to use personal cell phones during operations and doesn’t properly archive the resulting communications, defendants are increasingly struggling to get relevant evidence in discovery.
Chekhov’s Back Door Gate Appears in the David Huerta Assault Saga
In the affidavit he wrote to retroactively get an arrest warrant for David Huerta, Ryan Ribner emphasized that he only knew of one gate when he staged a confrontation in front of one. It turns out that claim, like so much else in the David Huerta prosecution, is unreliable.
This Is Not A Constitutional Moment
This is Trump claiming to be all-powerful and SCOTUS agreeing.
The Jerome Powell Clusterfuck Is a Clusterfuck of Pam Bondi’s Own Making
The Public Integrity Division at DOJ, which Pam Bondi destroyed last May, was designed to prevent the kind of clusterfuck that Jeanine Pirro created with her investigation of Jerome Powell.
DHS Assaulting Protesters Because Goons Believe They Are “Vicious, Horrible People”
On the collapsing criminal case against SEIU CA President David Huerta.
Time to Ask if Stephen Miller Has Authorized Assault and Murder of Peaceful ICE Observers
Given how consistently Greg Bovino is at the scene of unjustified violence against ICE observers, including today’s shooting, and given Bovino’s refusal to answer whether Stephen Miller has given him instructions about violence against protestors, it’s time to ask whether Miller has ordered this violence.
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