Profile avatar
srubenfeld.bsky.social
senior reporter, financial crime and corruption, MLex. Talk for hours, I hardly know ya But I, I'm listening https://www.mlex.com/mlex/financial-crime
2,794 posts 1,315 followers 396 following
Prolific Poster
Conversation Starter
Posts 39 Comments 11

The fact they chose California as the flash point is also an indicator that they don't think these things through LA has like 4M+ people. Sending every single ICE officer is ~20K, LAPD is 9K, LASD is 10K. Going in at 100:1 manpower – leaving zero bodies for literally anything else – is foolish 1/

submitted 3 hours ago • 129 comments

I would say that using the crime-fraud exception to pierce attorney- client privilege **against the government** is unprecedented, but it already happened with Trump's lawyers a few years ago.

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

"less lethals" can and will kill people. this is what we are up against.

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

Defense attorneys see early signs of an uptick in white collar prosecutions under new Massachusetts U.S. Attorney Leah Foley, though depleted resources in the Boston office and a focus on immigration could limit the number of high-profile cases. www.law360.com/artic...

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: A federal judge approves $2.8 billion antitrust settlement, clearing the way for U.S. colleges to pay millions to their athletes.

submitted 21 hours ago • 17 comments

NEW: Trump Has Options to Punish Musk Even if His Federal Contracts Continue The president could tighten federal oversight of the tech titan’s businesses, even if heavy reliance by the Pentagon and NASA on them makes terminating Mr. Musk’s contracts less feasible. nyti.ms/4kNM7lg

submitted 1 day ago • 42 comments

The U.S. Department of Justice filed a civil complaint alleging IT workers from North Korea evaded U.S. sanctions and accumulated millions in cryptocurrency for the benefit of the North Korean government. www.law360.com/artic...

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

For ambitious people in China, an economic slowdown and intense competition mean it’s sometimes easier to find success in African countries.

submitted 22 hours ago • 2 comments

NEW: In the case over Trump's unconstitutional order targeting the WilmerHale law firm, WilmerHale's lawyers at Clement & Murphy had to go back to court, asking the court to amend its judgment because DOJ is being appallingly intransigent. DOJ's Richard Lawson is really skating on thin ice here.

submitted 22 hours ago • 16 comments

The Defamation League, imo

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

be sure to stick around until the 33rd paragraph, where you will learn this right-wing grifter posted child sexual abuse images and that media coverage of his post made him sad (you will not hear from any of his critics)

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

It is entirely possible that before all is said and done Musk's attack on USAID will have resulted in more deaths than the Holocaust

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Feel like the “anti” part of Anti-Defamation League is increasingly superfluous

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

What a wildly embarrassing filing.

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

NEW at SCOTUS: two emergency docket wins for Trump. One gives DOGE access to Social Security files. The second halts a FOIA request for info into DOGE’s operations for now. The three Dem appointees dissent in each.

submitted 1 day ago • 46 comments

Tired: Merits rulings on Thursdays at 10am. Wired: Shadow docket orders on Fridays at 4pm.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

"300 fighters, including untrained drug dealers, thieves, murderers, and radicals, cannot overpower Hamas’ 30,000 militants. Realities on the ground indicate a far more nefarious scheme: those gangs have become a proxy used to advance Israel’s genocide, ethnic cleansing, and starvation policies"

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

NEW: Louisiana has a wild system: Officials known as justices of the peace get to decide evictions, and they can *pad their own salaries* with the eviction fees. Critics have filed a lawsuit trying to strike down a system that they stress incentivizes these court officials to grant evictions.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

BREAKING: SCOTUS conservatives give DOGE access to Social Security records, overruling lower courts. All three Democratic appointees would reject the Trump administration’s request.

submitted 1 day ago • 59 comments

JUST IN: A federal appeals court has agreed to let Trump ban the AP from the Oval Office again, a 2-1 ruling that blocked a lower (Trump-appointed) judge’s ruling that the content-based ban violated the constitution.

submitted 1 day ago • 53 comments

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court allows DOGE team to access Social Security systems with personal data on millions of Americans for now.

submitted 1 day ago • 100 comments

The arbitrary exercise of power against political opponents is the signature move of authoritarian leaders

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

Definitely sounds like a guy Dems should embrace www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

submitted 1 day ago • 33 comments

Trump’s travel ban once sparked outcry—but “Trumpism is a kind of authoritarian autoimmune disease,” @adamserwer.bsky.social writes. It’s “been ravaging the American body politic for so long that there are fewer small-d democratic antibodies left to fight it.”

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

So the president is just nominating his little legal errand boys now

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

If you strip away the egos and shitposting, the Trump-Musk feud is really an argument over how comprehensively to screw over poor and working people—over how best to make our society a meaner, crueler, less equal, more savage place. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1962...

submitted 1 day ago • 79 comments

The Trump administration is trying to get Senator Lindsey Graham to "significantly weaken his Russia-sanctions bill" while the White House seeks to patch up its relationship with Moscow, reports WSJ. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

A magistrate judge in Columbus, GA, has ordered discovery regarding the US-El Salvador detention deals for yet another Venezuelan sent to CECOT on 3/15. It's Jose Bastidas, who has no criminal record, per his atty. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

The Proud Boys are claiming various constitutional violations that are almost certain to fail because of the Supreme Court's evisceration of so-called "Bivens claims"

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

A Toronto businessman was charged with exporting electronic components to Russia in what authorities say is Canada's first prosecution for violating the country's sanctions on Moscow. He appears to be a key part of the supply chain for a drone used by Russia in its war on Ukraine.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

note that this completely inverts the public justification for the deportation scheme. they claim they’re deporting criminals, but they deported Kilmar without knowledge of a crime, and now that they supposedly found one they’re bringing him BACK.

submitted 1 day ago • 136 comments

@sranderson.bsky.social‬ looks across several D.C. Circuit opinions on various U.S. Agency for Global Media and Voice of America suits to piece together a fuller picture of how the court views President Trump's attempt to dismantle the executive branch. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

"The point is that both men start from the presumption that the U.S. government is an entirely corrupt enterprise, with the president in a position to hand out personal favors or engage in personal acts of vengeance." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/wake-up-an...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Censored out of existence

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

NEW: DOJ goes to SCOTUS, seeking a court order allowing the Trump administration to dismantle large swaths of the Education Department. Lower courts have blocked the action. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

A British TV art expert who sold works to a suspected Hezbollah financier is sentenced to prison www.courthousenews.com/a-british-tv...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

lol. lmao.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

NEW: About half of sovereign bonds — debt held by countries around the world — are issued under New York state law. Now, Albany is weighing a bill that seeks to stop investors from suing when countries default.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Trump’s redefinition of the US imperial role is emboldening officials to distinguish US interests from Israeli ones—and freeing European govts to challenge the Jewish state. @peterbeinart.bsky.social writes about the end of unconditional Western support for Israel. jewishcurrents.org/the-era-of-u...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment